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Game Day Stats and Discussion Thread: St. Louis Blues @ Los Angeles Kings

Just the Facts

Los Angeles Kings Stats St. Louis Blues
19-26-4 (42 pts) Record 21-21-5 (47 pts)
15.2% (26th) Power Play % 19.0% (17th)
74.7% (30th) Penalty Kill % 79.5% (18th)
2.22 (31st) Goals For/Game 2.79 (T-24th)
2.98 (T-15th) Goals Against/Game 3.04 (T-19th)
28.2 (28th) Shots For/Game 31.0 (20th)
31.8 (20th) Shots Against/Game 29.2 (6th)
Kopitar (32) Points Leader O’Reilly (48)
Kopitar (13) Goals Leader O’Reilly, Perron (17)
Doughty (23) Assists Leader O’Reilly (31)

Game Preview

The Opposition: St. Louis Game Time

Lineups

Los Angeles Kings

Kovalchuk — Kopitar — Brown
Iafallo — Carter — Leipsic
Hagelin — Kempe — Toffoli
Clifford — Thompson — Wagner

Forbort — Doughty
Muzzin — Martinez
Phaneuf — LaDue

Quick
(Campbell)

St. Louis Blues

Maroon — O’Reilly — Tarasenko
Schwartz — Schenn — Steen
Blais — Sundqvist — Kyrou
Nolan — Barbashev — MacEachern

Gunnarsson — Pietrangelo
Bouwmeester — Parayko
Dunn — Bortuzzo

Binnington
(Allen)

Discussion Questions

  1. Likelihood of Vladimir Tarasenko, who has four goals in his last five games, scoring tonight?
  2. If the Kings got a team dog (a service dog in training) like many of the other NHL teams have this year, what would it be named and why? (The Blues’ dog is named Barclay, after former Blues player Barclay Plager.)
  3. Anyone else disappointed that we’ll be denied the Jonathan Quick vs. David Perron hate-fest tonight, since Perron is out of the lineup with an injury?

Talking Points