{"id":198905,"date":"2025-10-08T23:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:08:07","slug":"are-the-kings-still-a-playoff-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198905\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Kings still a playoff team?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Even though it was just the first game of the new year, some are already concerned about the team in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On the opening night of the 2025-26 season, the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/los-angeles-kings\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> opened things up on home ice against the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. Though the Kings kept the overall pace of play pretty close against the Avalanche, Los Angeles failed to overcome giving up three goals in the second period, leading to a 4-1 loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">It\u2019s hard to judge a team after just one loss, but how the Kings were beaten in their own barn gave some supporters the jitters, questioning whether this team has enough grit to make it to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3qNIv4nbTPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Wednesday\u2019s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton gave their thoughts on whether L.A. has what it takes to make it to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: There\u2019s a \u2018___\u2019 percent chance they missed the playoffs this year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter Hutton: Zero. They are making the playoffs. This is a team that I think is getting in. I think they have the depth. They\u2019re gonna get there. I know it\u2019s a tricky start. When I look at their top nine and where they\u2019re at up front defensively. For me, it\u2019s going to be Anton Forsberg and Darcy Kuemper. Darcy Kuemper\u2019s 35 years old. He\u2019s got a lot of wear and tear on him. He played a ton of games last year. I think we\u2019ll see a little less of him if Forsberg can spot well. I truly feel this team is done. I don\u2019t think with Anze Kopitar and Quinton Byfield down the middle, they\u2019re going to be able to get it done. Adrian Kempe, where he\u2019s at, the contract talks. I just think this team is too good to miss the playoffs for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler: I\u2019m not quite as high on them. I don\u2019t like what Ken Holland did with that blue line over the summer. I\u2019ve been pretty vocal about that. I\u2019ll go a little higher, though. The only reason I won\u2019t go higher than say 15, 20% in that range is just because I look in that Pacific Division\u2026Is Calgary taking that spot? I don\u2019t know. Is Vancouver taking that spot back? Everyone\u2019s loving Anaheim right now. It\u2019s a long season. They got to close a pretty significant 21-point gap to catch third place in the Pacific from last year. So, I\u2019ll say 15%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and entire episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though it was just the first game of the new year, some are already concerned about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-198905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}