In a perfect world, Trevor Lewis is a Los Angeles King for life. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world.

For the next month or two, we’ll be taking a look at the players who made the Los Angeles Kings’ 2016-17 season what it was: a crushing disappointment that got people fired an up-and-down journey which managed to be both unusual and familiar. Rather than the good-bad-future-grade format we’ve used in past seasons, we’ll ask a crucial question and answer it using it what we saw this year.

On the morning of June 11, 2012, I was two days into a weeklong stay in Salt Lake City, Utah and I was FREAKING.