TORONTO — You can feel it all going off the rails. The whole thing tilting a little bit more, night after night. The wheels starting to lose their purchase.

It was just an adjustment period, some understandable growing pains after an off-season that came with key changes. Then just a slow start, the pain simply dragging on a bit longer than expected. Now, it’s this — losses continuing to pile up, injuries pulling pivotal names at every position out of the lineup, and a team that’s looked off its game from the first night of the campaign.

The latest instalment: a fourth consecutive loss, this one at the hands of the Los Angeles Kings, who stormed into Scotiabank Arena Thursday night, withstood an early show of promise from the home side, before ultimately waving it away and leaving town w

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