I'm just going to believe they all had the flu because that was as collective a suck as we've seen all year.
Buuuuut since it was the east coast that we had to suck on, get ready for all the hot takes on how terrible Quick, Kopitar, and Doughty are.
They have 11 shots through 2 periods, 11 shots!
And we are talking about bad luck bounces?
The Kings laid an egg tonight, saying so doesn’t mean they aren’t a great team or they suck, they simply took the night off. This happens to every team in the league multiple games a year, no need to try and blame bad luck. Just call it what it is and move on with the rest of this great season they’ve had.
I mean, that's a lot of hand waving to say you agree with me.
I just said those things aren't mutually exclusive. Nobody is "blaming" bad luck; it's simply an observation. You do this when people point out the refs are having a bad game too and it's not 'blaming' the game on refs, it's just observing that they blow when they blow.
Example: completely flat puck going to Tyler Toffoli for a wide open shot literally jumps perfectly over his stick, lands on Taylor Hall's who is already at 3/4 speed, which is what leads to the Jake Muzzin brain death that leads to a goal.
It was just a perfect storm of bad play (that part's been building) AND bad bounces (that part all hit tonight after going so well for 8 games) that led to total annihilation.