Kings’ tough Eastern swing continues with Islanders

If there’s no shame in being beaten by the best, perhaps the Kings deserve a slight reprieve of late.
Last Wednesday, they fell to the league’s reigning goalie of the year, Tampa Bay Lightning netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy, and its defending scoring champion and most valuable player, Tampa’s Nikita Kucherov.
On Tuesday, they held a 2-1 lead in the third period against the NHL’s top team, the Washington Capitals, until the league’s leading goal-scorer, Alex Ovechkin,