From 11/17 to 12/31, that's 15 of 20 games on the road. That'll probably go a long in determining if it's going to have to be another mad dash for the playoffs. The 5 home games stuck in there are against Chicago, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, TB, and SJ. So thankfully a little time for R&R.
11 of those 15 road games are against the East, where they were awful until the end of the season. One eastern road trip, come back home, then another eastern road trip. Then it ends with the same western Canadian trip that buried the corpse at the end of the season.
Your move Kopitar(and the rest of the bunch).