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Los Angeles Kings @ Tampa Bay Lightning
Time: 4:30 Pacific
TV: Fox Sports West, Sun Network
Enemy Reading: Raw Charge
Los Angeles Kings
Pearson-Kopitar-Gaborik
Lucic-Carter-Toffoli
Andreoff-Shore-Brown
Clifford-Lewis-Nolan
McNabb-Doughty
Muzzin-Martinez
Ehrhoff-McBain
Quick
(Enroth)
Scratched: Forbort, Weal Injured: King, Greene
Tampa Bay Lightning
Killorn-Stamkos-Callahan
Namestnikov-Johnson-Kucherov
Marchessault-Filppula-Brown
Vermin-Boyle-Condra
Hedman-Stralman
Carle-Garrison
Coburn-Sustr
Bishop
(Vasilevskiy)
Injured: Palat, Drouin, Paquette, Ohlund
Stats & Such
(Small sample size warning. Fancy stats courtesy War on Ice)
Team | Kings | Lightning |
Record | 13-8-0 | 10-9-3 |
Points | 26 | 23 |
Division Rank | 1st | 5th |
Streak | Won 1 |
Won 2 |
Goals For/Game | 2.57 | 2.41 |
Goals Against/Game | 2.19 |
2.27 |
ES Goal % | 47.5 |
50.7 |
ES Shot % |
53.5 |
50.7 |
ES PDO | 98.5 |
101.3 |
ES Corsi % | 56.4 |
52.0 |
ES Fenwick % | 55.7 |
51.7 |
ES Scoring Chance % | 55.3 |
50.3 |
ES High-Danger SC % | 53.5 |
49.9 |
Power Play % (Rank) | 19.4 (15th) |
19.1 (16th) |
Penalty Kill % (Rank) | 84.3 (7th) |
81.3 (13th) |
Starting Goalie (tonight) | Quick | Bishop |
Goalie Record | 10-7-0 |
8-7-2 |
Save % | .915 | .925 |
ES Save % | .921 |
.937 |
Notes:
- It's the eve of American Thanksgiving and the Kings will wrap up their Eastern conference road trip with a game in Tampa tonight. After this game they'll have off until Saturday.
- Their opponent tonight is last year's Stanley Cup runners-up, and like many of their recent peers the Lightning are having some trouble getting going in the following season. They sit just one game above .500, fifth place even in a fairly bad Atlantic division. Their advanced stats are down slightly (53% to 52 in even strength Corsi, 53.1 to 51.7 in Fenwick, and a big drop from 54% to 50.3% in scoring chances) and the team just hasn't appeared to be the same as last year's so far. Of late though they've been turning things around a bit, winners in their last two games.
- They've also been bitten by the injury bug a great deal lately, with Drouin, Palat, Tyler Johnson, Paquette, and Ohlund all missing time. It sounds like Johnson could return tonight (though it is not a guarantee) which would be a big boost for them, but the rest remain farther off.
- Looks like no lineup changes for the Kings coming off the win in south Florida. Which is, you know, whatever. Andy Andreoff on the third line is very much Not Good but what can you do.
- I have shockingly little to say about this game so let's move straight to what Mega Man opponent are you, Lightning?? The Lightning are:
- PREDICTION: Kings win 3-2. Four words: Andy Andreoff hat trick.