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Trailing the Coyotes by five points in the West Division, a head-to-head matchup was the perfect opportunity for the LA Kings to gain ground in the standings.
In what essentially boiled down to a must-win game with 12 games to go, the LA Kings put up one of their worst efforts of the season against the Coyotes.
“The first half of the game was not good on our part,” Anze Kopitar noted via the postgame Zoom call, following the Kings 4-0 loss. “We can’t expect to win games when we play half a period.