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Published on Friday, April 04, 2008
By Rich Hammond
The Kings needed to identify a No. 1 goalie. They didn't. They needed to find defensemen who put even the slightest fear into opponents. They couldn't.
To little surprise, they sunk to the bottom of the NHL.
Unless the Kings earn two points today in their season finale against the Ducks, they run the risk of finishing last in the league for the first time since 1969-70, the franchise's third season.
This is progress? In the second season with general manager Dean Lombardi and coach Marc Crawford in charge, the Kings will finish 15th (and last) in the Western Conference, compared to 14th last year.
This is the sixth anniversary of the Kings' last playoff appearance, and although magangement continues to preach patience during a rebuilding process, this season should have been a step forward, not backward.
"I think we expected to be in the (playoff) hunt," Lombardi said Friday. "I think it was realistic to think. That was a realistic expectation. ..
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