Kings' season opener is tonight against Oilers. I'm going to reiterate what I said last season to what they need to do well. Play good hockey (obviously, this can apply to all teams, but we cannot emphasize this enough), avoid legal troubles, and avoid injuries. I'm also going to add don't let Rob Blake make a bad decision (whether it is a player acquirement, a trade, etc.) that doesn't pay off for us in the end.
Other than that, from what I have been reading and hearing, especially on the NHL Network on Sirus XM when they discussed all the teams one by one in one hour segments, people don't have the brightest hopes for the Kings to make it to the playoffs and even in the offshoot that they do, it's probably going to end up in a first-round exit. That hurts me to hear that can be the case and it's probably going to end up to be true, but I can't write off this season as a wash before it begins. I NEED THE HOPE!
Edit: And just like that, McDavid skated so well that when he shoot the puck, it deflected on one of our guys and it went in. FOR f*** sakes. There's goes the idea of play good hockey in the first 90 seconds of the game.
Edit x 2: Got one back. Oilers' goalie sorta overplayed his position which left a wide net. I'll take it.
Edit x 3: Man, this is going to be a rough season if we got the lead four times over the Oilers and can't close the deal in regulation.