Game Day #25, Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Los Angeles Kings
A battle with a few elite scorers and some very steep ticket prices.
Pittsburgh Penguins @ Los Angeles Kings
Time: 1:00 Pacific
TV: Fox Sports West, ROOT
Enemy Reading: Pensburgh
Los Angeles Kings
Pearson-Kopitar-Gaborik
Lucic-Carter-Toffoli
Brown-Shore-Weal
Clifford-Andreoff-Nolan
McNabb-Doughty
Muzzin-Martinez
Ehrhoff-McBain
Quick
(Enroth)
Scratched: Forbort Injured: King, Lewis, Greene
Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis
Perron-Malkin-Kessel
Bennett-Bonino-Hornqvist
Plotnikov-Cullen-Fehr
Dumoulin-Maatta
Scuderi-Lovejoy
Cole-Warsofsky
Fleury
(Zatkoff)
Stats & Such
(Fancy stats courtesy War on Ice)
| Team | Penguins | Kings |
| Record | 14-8-2 | 15-8-1 |
| Points | 30 | 31 |
| Division Rank | 4th | 1st |
| Streak | Won 1 | Won 2 |
| Goals For/Game | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| Goals Against/Game | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| ES Goal % | 50.8 | 48.4 |
| ES Shot % | 49.7 | 54.8 |
| ES PDO | 100.3 | 98.5 |
| ES Corsi % | 48.4 | 57.2 |
| ES Fenwick % | 48.3 | 56.4 |
| ES Scoring Chance % | 49.0 | 56.0 |
| ES High-Danger SC % | 50.1 | 55.0 |
| Power Play % (Rank) | 17.3 (23rd) | 18.9 (15th) |
| Penalty Kill % (Rank) | 83.3 (9th) | 83.5 (8th) |
| Starting Goalie (tonight) | Fleury | Quick |
| Goalie Record | 12-7-1 | 12-7-1 |
| Save % | .929 | .918 |
| ES Save % | .944 | .929 |
Notes:
- (waves at Rob Scuderi and Jeff Zatkoff)
- (breaks up a fight between Jonathan Quick and David Perron)
- (Googles rookies Sergei Plotnikov and David Warsofsky)
- (hurriedly swaps in Jordan Weal for Trevor Lewis, who has reportedly sustained an upper-body injury)
- (carefully avoids mentioning the way LA's last home matchup with Pittsburgh, on Luc Robitaille Legends Night, ended)
- (uses it to motivate Tyler Toffoli anyway)
- (welcomes back Olli Maataa from injury and tells him he can take Kris Letang's spot, just for today)
- (marvels at the identical records of Quick and Marc-Andre Fleury)
- (predicts a 2-1 Kings win)
- (gets out of bed, finally)
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