The Kings entered play losers of 14 of their last 16 games. Twitter continued their assault on Willie Desjardins after a lackluster defeat to the Nashville Predators and I personally took him to task in our Jewels recap, imploring him, “If you want to get more young guys going, go look in the mirror and see the reason why they aren’t.”
Somehow I felt fairly strong about Willie reading the column prior to practice on Friday and letting the facts that Jeff Carter and Tyler Toffoli have sub-seven shooting percentages and never score (Carter two months since his last goal, Toffoli one month) sink in.