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OT included. The Islanders have one victory over their last six games and that occurred against New Jersey. Prior to that, their last victory occurred against the Maple Leafs in OT. In the Isles other five games during their past six, they scored one goal in each game. That’s a total of eight goals over their last six games and things don’t get easier here. Struggling to score and to win games, Los Angeles is the last team you want to see.

Kings’ fans aren’t the only one interested in what L.A. is doing. There are 15 other teams that are going to make the playoffs and all 15 are praying the Kings aren’t the 16th. The Kings are in playoff mode right now and that makes them still the most dangerous team in the NHL. Playing their third game in four days and tail-end of back-to-backs, L.A. went into Madison Square on Tuesday and defeated the very tough Rangers, 4-1. That’s a game New York wanted badly after losing to L.A. in last year’s Cup final. We’re not going to go into all the details about how difficult L.A. is to play and to beat. We’ve all seen just how powerful they are when it counts most. This is just one game in L.A.’s quest to make the playoffs in which anything can happen but in a big game with so much on the line, there isn’t a dog more worthy of backing than the Kings and you can times that by 10 when they’re playing a team that is laboring.