LOS ANGELES –– Following Tuesday’s defeat by Washington , Kings coach Jim Hiller said he had “plenty in his backpocket” when it came to forward lines and defensive pairings.

Yet after Thursday’s underwhelming loss to Chicago, whom they’ll host again Saturday, it appeared he might have been left with little but a ball of lint.

Wholesale changes were made before the game, during the match and, if recent results served as any indicator, in the coaches’ office afterward, too. The results were no different, with the Kings eking out just one goal for the seventh time this season and the fifth instance in their past nine games.

Hiller said after the loss to the Blackhawks , a 2-1 final thanks to some Herculean goaltending by Darcy Kuemper, that “we had a team of players that thought they w

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