Well, there were periods were Coyotes and Kings looked like, with enough oomph to it, they could have contended for that 4th spot and then they went into the buzzsaws that is Golden Knights and Avs. I will argue in the case of the Wild that they probably would have fared well against teams like Canucks, Jets, and Flames and maybe the Oilers. I'm not convinced that either of Canucks or Flames gets into the top 3 in the Pacific next season. I'm thinking it will probably be Golden Knights, Oilers, and Kraken if they built a solid team.
The Sharks were bad (except when they faced the Kings for some reason. Kings went 2-5-1 against the Sharks. At least, two of those games the Kings were actually hammering the Sharks on shots and couldn't beat Martin Jones enough to win those games. F***). Ducks were terrible as well. Kings had small moments of looking like they were going to be something and then they went back into being their 2018-2020 form of crappiness.