After having the West’s top points percentage, the Kings saw their head coach get fired and were bounced from the first round of the playoffs again by Edmonton
The Kings and Oilers shake hands after Edmonton won Game 5 to clinch the first-round playoff series Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta. Fresh promise and auspicious beginnings gave way to stale results from a season of tumult for the Kings, who were eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers, again, on Wednesday.
By that point, the Kings had turned a weakness from last season into a strength, their penalty kill, and also swapped early dominance on the road for a stronger home-ice advantage down the stretch. The Kings’ 11 away wins to start the year didn’t transfer to home ice, where they waited all the way until late February to earn their 11th win, months after they set the road record. Yet after the All-Star break and coaching change, the Kings were the league’s top team at handling hosting duties. That meant nothing in the playoffs, where they lost both games at Crypto.com Arena thanks to a feeble attack that produced one goal in 120 minutes.
“We’ve just got to play better, really. Special teams hurt us a lot this series,” captain Anže Kopitar said. “There were parts of the games where we were good, we were dictating the game, but we’ve got to do it more often.” During the season, Dubois had 40 points in 82 games and instead of being the mighty hunter he was portrayed to be, he mostly filled up on low-hanging fruit and empty calories, requiring both weak opposition and strong support to produce, for the most part.
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