Hopefully I'm not the one breaking this news to you - the Los Angeles Kings of hockey missed the playoffs last season. After winning two Stanley Cups in three years, the Kings didn't play a single playoff game. It was an event that shocked many. Perhaps even more said it was inevitable, after all the Kings had played more playoff games than anyone else the past three years. They also fought to ice a consistent roster.The season's sour end was capstoned by a 4-2 loss to the basement feeding Edmonton Oilers, which featured an emotional Anze Kopitar breaking his stick over the net after a defining open net goal.