The Kings have spent much of this season doing things the hard way, so it would only be fitting that they would head into the Olympic break with a back-to-back set that included travel.

They’ll host the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday and then head to Vegas for a joust with the Golden Knights on Thursday, their final engagement until Feb. 25.

Their recent road trip was more of the same. It featured three overtime games, including one that reached a shootout, plus a de facto one-goal win accentuated by an empty-netter and a 4-1 loss after which Adrian Kempe talked about needing to get to a goal away from being two goals away.

Their final game of the journey saw them extract a point out of a contest in which they were hectored thoroughly by most measures beyond the 3-2 final score in favor of the Carolina Hurricanes. The ‘Canes earned 72% of expected goals per Natural Stat Trick and outshot the Kings 34-13.

It marked just the seventh time in franchise history, dating to 1967, that the Kings produced that low of an output in terms of shots on goal, and the first time since 2008. One of the other six instances reached overtime, a Nov. 21, 2002, loss to St. Louis. Oddly, two such efforts resulted in wins (May 2, 1995, against Winnipeg and Oct. 22, 1969, facing Pittsburgh) and one was a tie (Oct. 28, 1997, versus Florida).

“You can say what you want about how they dominated us, but the boys played so hard tonight. We didn’t give up, came back in the third [period] and got a huge point,” Drew Doughty told reporters afterward.

Doughty’s defense partner, Mikey Anderson, exited that game and did not return. The Kings recalled Joe Hicketts, 29, from the minors Tuesday, with Anderson’s status best described as doubtful for the back-to-back tilts.

Yet the trip, on balance, was a success, with the Kings finishing 3-1-1 after their match in Columbus was postponed due to inclement weather. Captain Anže Kopitar, sidelined by a lower-body injury since Jan. 5, returned for the final two matchups against Carolina and, a day earlier, Philadelphia.

In all, the Kings have earned 25 of 32 points from their three tours of five or more games this season, good for a .781 points percentage and a .688 win percentage.

Across the rest of their results, they have a .461 points percentage and a paltry .316 winning percentage. At home, where they’ll face a Kraken club that’s beaten them in both meetings this season, they have nearly commensurate clips of .460 and .320.

Now, they’ll face two teams they are chasing in a hermetically sealed Pacific Division race.

Seattle sat a solitary point ahead of the Kings entering its two-clashes-in-two-nights test against the Ducks on Tuesday and Kings on Wednesday. They took four straight decisions and five of six prior to those two matchups.

First-place Vegas vanished after its seven-game surge, losing five in a row and seven of eight in advance of its own back-to-back dates with Vancouver and the Kings. The Golden Knights split a pair of bouts with the Kings, losing their season opener in a shootout and beating the Kings in OT on Jan. 14.

They trail only the Kings in terms of games gone beyond regulation, and neither has fared particularly well in those squeakers: The Kings have won nine of 23 overtimes and shootouts, while Vegas prevailed in seven of 21.

Seattle at Kings

When: 7 p.m. Wednesday

Where: Crypto.com Arena

TV: FDSN West

Kings at Vegas

When: 7 p.m. Thursday

Where: T-Mobile Arena

TV: FDSN West