The Kings have just one win four games into a five-game trip against playoff-caliber opponents, and Coach Todd McClellan says several players need to do more.
The Kings landed in unseasonably warm Winnipeg, where it was a cozy 26 degrees on Monday, to conclude a demanding road swing that hasn’t gone swimmingly ahead of Tuesday’s finale against the Jets.
Yet Kings coach Todd McLellan said it was his team that didn’t have enough players to win, citing half a dozen or so passengers on the team bus Sunday. McLellan said that while rolling three lines or two defense pairings, let alone both short-handed arrangements, wasn’t sustainable over time, in short spurts it could actually benefit a team. Much like when a coach shortens his bench late in a game, matchups are disrupted and higher-end players end up with more shifts, which McLellan said contributed to the Kings’ fourth line “taking it on the chin.
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