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After one month, where they stand

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The first calendar month of the Kings’ season is now in the books, and 11 games seems a fair total to evaluate, in terms of where the Kings stand in the league in some major statistical categories. This year’s totals/averages and rankings are in bold and, for comparison, last year’s full-season totals/averages and rankings follow, in italics…

Points earned/game: .636 (T-8th) — .598 (12th)
Goals/game: 2.36 (T-21st) — 2.55 (25th)
Goals against/game: 1.91 (2nd) — 2.39 (T-6th)
5-on-5 goals for/against ratio: 1.14 (9th) — 1.05 (13th)
Power-play percentage: 23.1 (6th) — 16.1 (21st)
Penalty-kill percentage: 86.1 (T-8th) — 85.5 (4th)
Shots/game: 28.3 (T-9th) — 28.8 (T-23rd)
Shots against/game: 28.3 (T-9th) — 27.9 (3rd)
Penalty minutes/game: 11.3 (13th) — 11.7 (T-14th)
Hits: 260 (6th) — 2,127 (5th)
Blocked shots: 154 (14th) — 1,032 (27th)
Faceoff percentage: 49.1 (19th) — 51.1 (10th)

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