Whicker: Hockey needs to use its only timeout, then come back strong in the fall

The Kings have 12 games remaining. Should hockey resume, they would have 88 points if they won all 12.
Eighty-eight points would not have gotten them in last year’s playoffs, which is why Drew Doughty, whose mask doesn’t filter anything, said his head is already in the offseason, with a bead on 2020-21.
Rob Blake is the Kings’ general manager and can’t say such things. He does say that playing games “that don’t have any meaning” would be “difficult