GDT: Game 58: Los Angeles Kings at Nashville Predators | Saturday, Feb 20 2016 - 5:00PM PT

[KingsKnight]

LOS ANGELES KINGS @ NASHVILLE PREDATORS
Saturday, Feb 20 2016 - 5:00PM PT
Bridgestone Arena | Nashville, TN
TV: FS-W | Radio: AM 790 KABC

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LOS ANGELES|

NASHVILLE

(33-20-4 70pts)|

(27-21-10 64pts)
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Lucic - Carter - Toffoli |

Jarnkrok - Johansen - Neal

Clifford - Lecavalier - Lewis |

Forsberg - Ribeiro - Smith

King - Shore - Brown |

Wilson - Fisher - Arvidsson

Pearson - Andreoff - Mersch |

Salomaki - Gaustad - Watson
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Muzzin - Doughty |

Josi - Weber

Martinez - Schenn |

Ekholm - Ellis

McNabb - McBain|

Jackman - Bitetto
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Quick / Enroth |

Rinne / Hutton​

INJURIES
Kopitar sustained a “lower body injury” in the game on Thursday against the Blues and is listed as day-to-day.

Nolan is day-to-day with god knows what.

Gaborik is on LTIR for a “lower body injury”.

NEWS | NOTES
Mersch has been called up from Ontario.

This is the second of three regular season meeting between the clubs.

This is the last of the 7 game Grammy road trip. Kings are 2-3-1 for 5pts on this trip,
and are looking to salvage a .500 road trip with a win tonight:
2/9 LAK 9 at BOS 2
2/11 LAK 2 at NYI 5
2/12 LAK 5 at NYR 4 OT
2/14 LAK 0 at NJD 1
2/16 LAK 1 at WAS 3
2/18 LAK 1 at STL 2 OT
2/20 LAK at NSH 5:00 PM

MATCHUP
10/31 NSH 3 at LAK 4 OT
2/20 LAK at NSH
3/21 LAK at NSH

|GP|Record|Pts|ROW|Home|Away|Last 10|Streak
LAK|57|33-20-4|70|31|15-10-1|18-10-3|4-5-1|OTL 1
NSH|58|27-21-10|64|25|15-10-4|12-11-6|5-3-2|Won 1

|G/GP|GA/GP|PP%|PK%|S/GP|SA/GP|FOW%
LAK|2.68|2.35|22.5|82.1|32.6|28.1|50.1
NSH|2.60|2.60|19.6|79.4|30.3|26.5|49.5

STANDINGS

# | [pre] Pacific [/pre] | GP |

[pre] W-L-OT [/pre]|PTS|ROW

1|[pre] Los Angeles[/pre]|

57|

33-20-4|

70|

31

2|[pre] Anaheim[/pre]|

57|

30-19-8|

68|

28

3|[pre] San Jose[/pre]|

57|

31-21-5|

67|

28

4|[pre] Arizona[/pre]|

57|

27-24-6|

60|

26

5|[pre] Vancouver[/pre]|

58|

22-24-12|

56|

18

6|[pre] Calgary[/pre]|

57|

26-28-3|

55|

24

7|[pre] Edmonton[/pre]|

59|

22-31-6|

50|

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SEASON SCHEDULE | RESULTS

Disclaimer: “GDT may not be 100% accurate. I got the line combos from your mom. I used to have Center Ice, Gamecenter Live, and an undercover concession worker in each arena, but this **** costs money. I will admit that my pet otter is using all up that money on his worsening opium problem. I try to not be an enabler, but I haven't had a sea urchin problem in months. Then I thought, why should I pay all this money and have a sea urchin problem to appease fans of random teams that I don't even care about anyway? Unless you are willing to take a bunch of sea urchins off of my hands, don't ***** if I get the lines wrong.” - BF​

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[KingsKnight]

Any guesses as to what our lines might look like? My uneducated guess:

17-77-73
74-44-23
70-49-22
13-15-71

 

[kingsholygrail]

 

[PJ Kings Hockey]

Any guesses as to what our lines might look like? My uneducated guess:

17-77-73
74-44-23
70-49-22
13-15-71

Lewis would have to center Mersch and Pearson. Shore might be in instead of Andreoff on the fourth line. Scary without Kopi and Gabby.

ETA: that picture above sums it up.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Not including empty nets, the Kings have scored 8 goals in 5 road games against Central teams. They've also only given up 10, 11 if you count the Blues goal in OT.

Winnipeg - 2-1 in ES goals, and no goals on special teams either way.
Chicago - 2-3 in ES goals, and the Hawks got a SH goal.
St.Louis - 1-0 in ES goals, and won the special teams battle 1-0 on the PP.
Colorado - 0-1 in ES goals, and lost special teams 1-3 on the PP.
St.Louis - 0-0 at ES, 1-1 on the PP, then lost in OT.

Pretty simple and straight forward results. Do better at ES, you'll probably win. Win the special teams battle, probably win. No secrets involved.

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

What's the Kings record in Nashville the last few years?

 

[Butch 19]

We're going to a bbq at 6:00.

I may be looking for a break from hockey by then anyway.

 

[PJ Kings Hockey]

What's the Kings record in Nashville the last few years?

Here you go.

Let's see which team gets barbecued tonight.

 

[TonySCV]

Can't wait to see this abortion of a road trip end tonight.

 

[kingsboy11]

Will be missing the game tonight. Might be a good thing that I'm missing it

 

[Reclamation Project]

More excited for the PGT than the game.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

No Kopitar tonight.

 

[Omni Owl]

Will be missing the game tonight. Might be a good thing that I'm missing it

Same.

 

[kingskring]

Jon Rosen ‏@lakingsinsider 4m4 minutes ago
Looking around, Nolan's not on the ice. Was told he's "out."

 

[kingskring]

Jon Rosen ‏@lakingsinsider 4m4 minutes ago
Looking around, Nolan's not on the ice. Was told he's "out.”

.

 

[PJ Kings Hockey]

I would like to see Vinny with wingers with better finish.

 

[kingskring]

lisa dillman ‏@reallisa 50m50 minutes ago
Nolan day to day per ops

 

[Nizar]

Everyone is day to day this days.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

this is gonna be a laugher. I have ZERO expectations for tonight. Just survive the road trip at this point, get home and healthy, and try to stay in a playoff spot.

 

[theMajor]

Everyone is day to day this days.

St Louis was a heavy game. just a lil taste of the playoffs

 

[KingCanadain1976]

I am looking forward to seeing clifford getting 2nd line mins Go kings go

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

On the bright side, the hockey gods haven't put much in our way today aside from missing key offensive players!

 

[DocWest]

I expect an excruciating 1-0 shutout loss, which means we will actually get blown out 6-0. Which one of our stars will get injured tonight?

 

[The Night King]

Let's get a point. Hopefully the team plays harder to make up for Kopi's absence.

 

[Reclamation Project]

Kings will win tonight and Lecavalier will have a monster game.