The Kings’ Playoff Curse: What’s Really Behind Their Struggle to Top the Oilers?
No team finished the season hotter nor healthier than the Kings.
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That also meant the Kings, who had the best home record in the NHL in the regular season, would have the home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs. And if they finally got past an Edmonton team that limped into the postseason wounded, they would have faced Vegas in the second round and a team from a quartet of Winnipeg, Dallas, Colorado or St. Louis in the Western Conference final.
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