Columbus Blue Jackets v Los Angeles Kings (Nationwide Arena)
Time: 4:00 PM PST
TV: Fox Sports West
Enemy Reading: The Cannon
Lineups:
Los Angeles Kings
Gaborik–Kopitar–Brown
King–Carter–Toffoli
Lewis–Stoll–Williams
Clifford–Shore–Nolan
Doughty–Muzzin
Regehr–McNabb
Greene–McBain
Quick
(Jones)
Scratched: Andreoff; Injured: Pearson, Martinez; Suspended: Voynov
Columbus Blue Jackets
Gaudreau–Monahan–Hudler
Bouma–Backlund–Jones
Bollig–Colborne–Byron
Glencross–Stajan–Raymond
Giordano–Brodie
Russell–Wideman
Diaz–Engelland
Hiller
(Ramo)
Scratched: None; Injured: Smid
Notes:
- First, an appreciation of what Robyn Regehr did on Saturday…
- Regehr, along with Matt Greene, should get a whole bunch of ice time today with Alec Martinez out of the lineup. We still don’t know the defense pairings, though.
- I could have just written “STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELVES, KINGS FANS” in place of the Blue Jackets’ injury list. My goodness.
- Curtis McElhinney has a .915 save percentage this season, and stopped 34 of 35 on Saturday against Ottawa, so he’s not a total disaster in net. Never forget, though, that he played 21 games for Anaheim in 2010-11 and put up an .890 save percentage. Ouch.
- That Saturday game was a strange one. McElhinney and Robin Lehner combined to stop all 46 shots they faced in the first two periods, but the game finished 4-1 after a Columbus outburst.
- Weirder than that? Their prior game, a 7-1 romp over the actually-good St. Louis Blues.
- That doesn’t mean LA shouldn’t win today. The Columbus bottom six and defensive corps are extremely thin thanks to injuries, and the Blue Jackets have a mere 49 points this season. The Kings aren’t going to get the six points we humbly requested on this trip, but winning this game will salvage the journey. A loss will be incredibly discouraging.
- PREDICTION: Jack Johnson and Robyn Regehr go head-to-head a lot, amusing us all.
| No. | Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | Hits | BkS | PP TOI | SH TOI | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | R. Regehr | D | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0:27 | 2:17 | 29:00 |