It's pretty simple why the Kings missed this year.
They are gassed as a collective.
The Kings have played 65 more games the last 3 seasons than the Flames as an example. Those games are also among the hardest played typically both mentally and physically. That's almost an entire season when you tack on Olympics for many of them.
The human body can only take so much before it simply can't respond like it wants. It's like any of us if we worked day after day and week after week of overtime. At some point you just start to burn out and are not as effective as you can be.
It really is as simple as that....Corsi and PDO and all the other fluffy explanations aside.
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