Jonathan Quick’s back! Get ready for some goaltender health anxiety!
Just the Facts
| Los Angeles Kings | Stats | Dallas Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 2-5-1 (5 pts) | Record | 3-4-0 (6 pts) |
| 10.7% | Power Play % | 33.3% |
| 71.4% | Penalty Kill % | 80.0% |
| 1.88 | Goals For/Game | 2.70 |
| 3.50 | Goals Against/Game | 3.00 |
| 27.3 | Shots For/Game | 34.4 |
| 31.9 | Shots Against/Game | 30.3 |
| Iafallo (7) | Points Leader | Radulov, Seguin (10) |
| Iafallo, Kopitar, 3 more (2) | Goals Leader | Radulov, Benn, Klingberg (4) |
| Iafallo (5) | Assists Leader | Seguin (7) |
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Lineups
Neither team ran full lines today, so our best guesses will have to be informed by yesterday’s practice for the Kings, and the game in Anaheim for the Islanders.
Los Angeles Kings
#LAKings lines, based on color coding
Iafallo-Kopitar-Toffoli
Kovalchuk-Amadio-Carter
Wagner-Kempe-Lewis
JAD-Thompson-Rempal
Pearson-Clifford
Brown in red no-contact.— Jon Rosen (@lakingsinsider) October 17, 2018
Clifford and LaDue were the late skaters at practice today. There’s one extra forward who will need to be scratched, but no indications on who. Best guess is that it’s going to be a game-time decision and we might see all of the forwards out for warm-ups.
Jonathan Quick starts.
New York Islanders
#Isles in warmups
Lee-Nelson-Eberle
Ladd-Barzal-Bailey
Beauvillier-Filppula-Clutterbuck
Johnston-Cizikas-Komarov
Leddy-Pulock
Hickey-Mayfield
Sbisa-Boychuk
Greiss— Andrew Gross (@AGrossNewsday) October 18, 2018
With a back-to-back, it’s possible that the Islanders make some lineup changes, but, again, no real rushes in what turned out to be an optional skate this morning. Robin Lehner will presumably get the start in net. He’s 1-5-0 against the Kings in his career, spent in Buffalo, and prior to that, in Ottawa.