A difficult situation? Most certainly.
Impossible to recover from? Absolutely not.
Facing elimination is no comfortable feeling, but if you’re to take any token of positivity or confidence from recent years, it’s that the Kings are a perfect 7-0 in their previous seven games when on the brink.
This marks the 14th time in franchise history that the Kings will face elimination in a Game 5 of a best-of-seven series. When trailing three games to one, the Kings are 2-11 in series outcomes; of course one of those two times being against the Sharks in 2014 – when the Kings initially faced a three games to none deficit.