Game Day Stats & Discussion Thread: Colorado Avalanche @ Los Angeles Kings

Same lineup, same goalie as the last game. Same result? (hah.)

No real fancy stats, as your fancy stat gatherer is boarding an airplane in mere moments.

Some highlights:

  • The Avalanche top line of Mikko Rantanen, Gabe Landeskog, and Nate MacKinnon have approximately seventy billion points. Trust me, I did the math.
  • The Avalanche have the #2 power play in the league, clicking at 30.3%. No, that’s not a typo. Yes, I’m afraid too.
  • The Avalanche penalty kill is 18th in the league, coming in at 79.7%, a few ticks above the Kings.
  • You don’t need me to tell you where the Kings’ power play falls in the league listings. You know in your heart how it’s doing. (It’s last.)  /

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The Opposition: Mile High Hockey

Lineups

Los Angeles Kings

Iafallo - Kopitar - Brown
Kovalchuk - Carter - Toffoli
Hagelin - Kempe - Luff
Clifford - Thompson - Wagner

Forbort - Doughty
Muzzin - Martinez
Phaneuf - Fantenberg

Petersen
(Budaj)

  • Mike Amadio heads back to Ontario, leaving the Kings with no extra forwards.
  • No, we don’t know why Paul LaDue isn’t playing (he was hurt, but now he’s better).
  • Cal Petersen was first off the ice at practice. /

Colorado Avalanche

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Jost - Kerfoot - Wilson
Dries - Soderberg - Calvert
Andrighetto - Kamenev - Bourque

Girard - Johnson
Cole - Barrie
Zadorov - Nemeth

Varlamov
(Grubauer)