Well, obviously, the Kings can't be happy with how they stacked up getting swept against Vegas. Their offense during the series was really lacking. Sadly, imo, Rob Blake's answer to that is signing Ilya Kovalchuk to a 3 year contract at $6.25M a year. This guy hasn't played in the NHL in five years and he didn't really leave the NHL on the greatest of terms from what I heard. Maybe he might end up paying dividends in the end and have a great season, playing with Kopitar (shouldn't be too hard to accomplish). Hard to say.
That stated, I still feel good about the upcoming season. As long as Quick is healthy and plays consistently well and our usual guys (Kopitar, Doughty, Carter, etc.) plays solid and remain healthy and the younger guys (Iafallo and Kempe) continues to tap into that young potential and turn that into greatest for the most part, everything should be fine. So for me, they need to play solid hockey in all the games they play, stay healthy, and avoid legal issues. Do all three and it's an easy trip to the playoffs where anything and everything can happen.
The Pacific division is still going to be tough to go against. I know the other California teams (where both Sharks and Ducks are more consistent at making the playoffs than the Kings in their history) are going to play really well against the Kings, so the Kings got to play well back. Don't know how Vegas will stand now that the honeymoon phase is over, but I don't expect them to suddenly drastically get run over and I do think they will remain competitive in the standings. Coyotes will probably have that "sucks for the most part, can be really good for a good period of time" phase. The Canadian teams (Flames, Oilers, Canucks) will have that certain sense of unpredictability where they will really suck in one game, can be really dangerously playoff-competitive good in another game which makes me afraid to go against them at times.