Angeles Analysis - Game 5

There is something impossibly sad about a National Hockey League locker room after a team has lost a playoff series. Maybe it's the quiet. Like walking into a funeral home. As there is in every room after every playoff loss, there was a pall in the Los Angeles Kings' locker room at Rogers Place in Edmonton after the Kings dropped Game 5 by a 4-3 score ending the first-round series. In the room players, staff and coaches moved about silently, talking in hushed tones as they attended to the mundane routines that follow any hockey game, the packing up of the sticks, the name plates being taken down from over the players' stalls. Except, as mundane and familiar as these duties and routines are, in