These are the dog days of the recap. Games not good enough for a running diary. Games close enough to watch, but never giving you enough hope that a victory will occur. This was one of those games. Following another trade—Carl Hagelin we barely knew ya—the Kings found themselves playing another game against a team going in the opposite direction as their current trajectory: the Nashville Predators.
The result was predictable:
- Predators jump out to an early lead, tonight courtesy of Kyle Turris. (This, of course, is game over if you’re the team who walks into the locker room trailing Nashville after the first period as they are 16-1-1 when leading after one and 27-3-1 when scoring first).