Kings-Flames Preview: The New Drama on HNIC

Since we last put our boots on to meet the Calgary Flames...

IN: Sven Baertschi, Paul Byron, Chris Butler, Scott Hannan, Pierre-Luc Lettourneau-Leblond, Jordan Henry, Lee Stempniak, Blake Comeau

OUT: Robyn Regehr, Daymond Langkow, Fredrik Modin, Tim Erixon, Ales Kotalik, Keith Seabrook, Adam Pardy, Steve Staios

Flames lineup: Rene Bourque was just swapped for Mike Cammalleri, so here's one projection.

Glencross-Jokinen-Iginla

Cammalleri-Backlund-Stempniak

Byron-Jones-Comeau

Brostopolous-Bouma-Jackman

Bouwmeester-Butler

Brodie-Sarich

Giordano-Babcock

Kiprusoff

Kings lineup:

Brown-Kopitar-Williams

Penner-Richards-Stoll

Richardson-Loktionov-Lewis

Clifford-Fraser-Hunter

Scuderi-Doughty

Mitchell-Voynov

Johnson-Greene

Quick

Game outlook: Let's sum up the long lovefest of a press conference between Darryl Sutter and the Calgary media today:

Reporters: How much of a soap opera is this!? OMG OMG!

Darryl: Well maybe YOU think it's an episode of All My Sutters, but you're not getting any juicy quotes from me.

Reporters: Why didn't you have a press conference before you left?

Darryl: I guess I did miss out on one last opportunity to tell you to go **** yourselves.

I'm sure both brothers want to win this one badly, but things are patched up, so leave 'em be. Anyway, wanting to win badly every night is their job.

The Flames are, for some reason, a dynamite possession team at home and a very poor one on the road. We'll have to see if the Kings can keep up their pattern of getting more high-quality shots here tonight.