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Game Day #15: Kings-Canucks

Time: 7.00 PM

TV: Fox Sports West, CBC

Kings projected lineup:

Gaborik - Kopitar - Williams
Pearson - Carter - Toffoli
King - Richards - Brown

Clifford - Stoll - Lewis
Nolan

Doughty - Muzzin

Greene - Martinez

McNabb

Quick

Injured: Regehr; Suspended: Voynov

Canucks projected lineup:

Sedin - Sedin - Vrbata
Higgins - Bonino - Burrows
Matthias - Horvat - Jensen
Dorsett - Vey - Hansen

Edler - Tanev
Stanton - Bieksa
Hamhuis - Sbisa

Miller

Injured: Kassian (leg), Sestito (lower body), Richardson (?)

Game notes:

Robyn Regehr sustained an injury in practice, so the Kings will be playing tonight with 13 forwards and 5 defencemen. Do we think Drew Doughty might hit forty minutes of ice time tonight? Fifty? Hell, just leave him on the ice full-time and let everyone else rotate around him. I don't see any way this ends terribly.
The Canucks have been surprisingly good to start the season, with a lot of their recent additions coming out to strong starts. Freshly acquired Radim Vrbata has been a big hit with the Sedin twins on the top line, Ryan "Silver Medal" Miller has been decent (he stole a hell of a game against the Sharks two nights ago), and former Monarch/King Linden Vey has been very strong in the bottom six (already posting seven points).
Neither Zack Kassian nor Tom Sestito will be playing tonight, so at least the risk of somebody's head getting exploded tonight is minimal. This game is a success already!
I don't really know what to say about this game. The Kings weren't able to take advantage of a tired Islanders team during their last game and this 13/5 configuration is obviously going to look pretty weird. Trying to stay off the PK/avoid that extra exertion would probably be a good plan tonight but this is the Kings so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Prediction: Kings win ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯