Apparently, this is what the abyss -- or in more literal terms, rock bottom -- looks like in a Kings season gone beyond the tipping point.
Not only did they fail to score against, or barely hit, an alleged road-weary Nashville, which had played and lost the night before in Anaheim, but the Kings allowed three first-period goals in a dizzying, disengaged span of 1 minute 15 seconds, a Predators team record.
The bar has dropped so low around Staples Center that even a mediocre showing was a few levels removed as the Predators won, 7-0, on Tuesday before 14,751. Nashville took a five-goal lead about midway through the second period, reducing the back half of the game to garbage time.
"It definitely can't happen again," said the Kings' Anze Kopitar. "No excuses for that. We played awful from the first guy to the last guy. It cannot happen again."
Kings sinking to new depths (LATIMES) 
