5 reasons why Los Angeles Kings will win Stanley Cup

3. Home ice advantage

The Kings will play the Vegas Golden Knights in the first round of the playoffs, and it may be midnight for this first-year Cinderella story. The Golden Knights may turn out to be like an actual trip to Vegas, you get there on Friday night and you’re excited and alive everything is going your way, you’re ready to take the sign home and turn out the lights. But by Sunday you have a bunch of credit card cash advance receipts and your hopes and dreams from Friday night are a distant memory. Reality sets in you are what you are supposed to be: a sheep to slaughter.

For an expansion team, Vegas looks invincible. Note to Vegas, before you were a twinkle in the city’s eye, the Kings had been showing up yearly to play preseason games in town and are not enamored by the City of Sin and all its trappings. In a seven-game series, this is not really a road game for them. If you saw the Kings play the Ducks during their run in 2014, you may recall that the Kings played seven home games that series, chants of “Go Kings Go” could be heard throughout Honda Center all series long. Don’t think that Kings fans won’t find a way fill the stands in Vegas. And, as mentioned, if they should run into the Ducks well the Kings fans will be out in force.