{"id":447541,"date":"2026-02-01T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:02:07","slug":"are-the-kings-or-capitals-the-bigger-disappointment-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447541\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Kings or Capitals the bigger disappointment this season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">As the NHL approaches the three-week Olympic break, some teams are fighting for their postseason lives, and two of those teams are 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> and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/washington-capitals\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Wednesday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KZtWvVx-ivM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton discuss which of the two teams has been a bigger disappointment in the 2025-26 NHL regular season in the latest edition of \u201cThis or That?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: I wonder about the L.A. Kings, a little bit. They have 59 points on the year, they are tied for the final playoff spot in the West, and they came into the year with a lot of expectations. Ken Holland is now at the helm as their general manager, and it wasn\u2019t just \u201cplayoffs or bust,\u201d but instead, \u201cwe need to win some rounds in the playoffs.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Then you look at the East, and another team that we might have thought would regress a little bit, but still have playoff expectations, and was facing the pressure of \u201ccan we get to the postseason in what\u2019s potentially Alex Ovechkin\u2019s final season?\u201d That would be the Washington Capitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Which team missing the playoffs would be a bigger disappointment in your eyes, Huts? The Caps or the Kings? <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter Hutton: I\u2019m going to go with the Kings, because I just think that where they\u2019re at, for a team that has so much presence at home and where they\u2019re game was at. I feel like for the Capitals, I was personally prepared for \u2018this regression. I thought they overshot the runway last year and they played with a lot of emotion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">I don\u2019t think the Caps are done, by any means, but I think disappointment-wise, if the Kings miss the playoffs, then head coach Jim Hiller is done and there\u2019s going to be a lot of moving parts. Especially in a season where this was Anze Kopitar\u2019s last season in the NHL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the NHL approaches the three-week Olympic break, some teams are fighting for their postseason lives, and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-447541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}