All Ball: Kings lose Game of Thrones, Buss under the bus
by Paul Teetor The Los Angeles Kings blew a golden opportunity with their 2-0 game 7 loss to the Edmonton Oilers in a National Hockey League first round playoff series Saturday night. Actually, make that two missed golden opportunities for the price of one loss. First, when they lost game 7 and the series to the Oilers after leading 3-2 in games just a few days earlier, they blew a golden opportunity to win their first playoff series in eight years. It would have been their first since they bulled their way through four rounds and won the Stanley Cup in 2014. Second, and equally importantly, they also blew a golden opportunity to fill the spring-time playoff publicity void left by the Lakers and Clippers, who both missed the NBA playoffs this year. The ever-growing LA sports media complex – print, radio, TV and podcast — needs something to fill its hungry maw 24/7, and a Kings revival and long playoff run would have been a perfect story to fill the missing Lakers/Clippers publicity hole. Kings fans – of both the die-hard watch-every-game variety and the casual, jump-on-the-bandwagon variety – were all ready to party like it was 2014 or even like 2012, when the Kings also won the…
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