Carter has 1 goal, 6 points, and a -8 in 19 road games. Kopitar has 2 goals, 5 points, and a -10 in 16 road games. Whatever +/- is worth, those are the two worst rankings on the road for the Kings this year. Stoll has 2 goals and 8 points on the road. Clifford has 1 goal and 7 points. Lewis has 3 goals and 6 points. McBain has 1 goal. Greene has 1 goal. Brown and Richards both have 4 goals and 9 points. Martinez has 3 goals. King has 2 goals. You can just keep going down the line.
Quick has a .900sv% on the road.
I'm sure the defensive group issues are also part of the equation. In 2013, both Mitchell and Greene were out for basically the whole season. This year, not only is Mitchell gone, but Voynov, and now Regehr has been hurt.
The Kings have 3 combined goals on the road from Kopitar and Carter. At home, they're both averaging more than a point per game now. Combined for 16 goals in 21 games. That's .762 goals per game from the two of them. On the road, it's .178 goals per game. That's a difference of .584 goals per game. Kopitar hasn't not led the team in road scoring since his rookie year. Before this season, Carter had scored 30 goals in 70 road games in the regular season with the Kings. That's an average of 35 over 82 games. This season, with 1 goal in 19 games, he would get 4 over 82 games.
. Those have to do with team chemistry/composition, and rolling a bunch of new d-men out there can do that, though it seems most of the issues are actually due to the forwards and/or the fatigue of Doughty (and maybe all players--cup hangover if you subscribe to that). Like I said, I think all of this will get sorted out, which will also support the goaltending, and I find it impossible to believe that our top players home/road splits will be so drastic, which should lead to challenging for the division sooner rather than later (especially with Kopitar playing with a pulse again).
