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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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)