It’s a cliche, but it’s one of my favorites: “The goaltender has to make that save.”
With the recent injury to Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick, the Kings are relying on two netminders who, combined, probably wouldn’t have played more than 15-20 games this season. Instead, Jeff Zatkoff and Peter Budaj have been thrown into the fire, and suffice it to say, they haven’t started quite as well as Ben Scrivens and Martin Jones did when Quick hurt his groin three years ago.
The key sticking point for both so far has been allowing goals at bad times.