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Regular Season Stats:

Los Angeles Kings(45-29-8, 98pts, Wild Card 1) @ Vegas Golden Knights(51-24-7, 109 pts, 1st in Pacific)
T-Mobile Arena| Las Vegas, NV
TIME: 7:00 pm PT | TV: Prime Ticket/NBCSN/CBC | RADIO: 790 KABC

Previous Meetings:
April 11 VGK 1-0
FEB 27 LAK 4-1
FEB 26 LAK 3-2 (OT)
DEC 28 VGK 3-2 (OT)
NOV 19 VGK 4-2

VGK lead the series 1-0

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Leading ScorersAnze Kopitar: 35 goals, 57 assists, 92 pointsWilliam Karlsson: 43 goals, 35 assists, 78 points
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Possible Lines*
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Extras: Andy Andreoff, Johnny Brodzinski, Nate Thompson, Kevin Gravel
Injuries: Derek Forbort, Jake Muzzin?
Not-Eligible: Sheldon Rempel, Daniel Brickley

Drew Doughty has been suspended for 1 game following his illegal check to the head on William Carrier.
Muzzin is still in a non-contact jersey this morning.

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Injuries: David Clarkson, Mikhail Grabovski, Luca Sbisa?, David Perron?, Oscar Lindberg?

Does not appear to be any changes for the Golden Knights. Reaves, Lindberg and Perron looking like the extras. William Carrier is still skating with the regulars.

*Lines are not Final! Lines subject to change*

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By @Kylo Ren

News/Notes:
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*from LA Kings playoff media guide
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  • The LA Kings are 21-27 in game 2 of a playoff series. They've won 15 of 21 series when they win game 2. They've won 6 of 27 series when they lose game 2.
  • After a tightly contested game 1 of this series, the Vegas Golden Knights come out on top with a goal coming from Shea Theodore. Marc-Andre Fleury was a perfect 30 for 30 on saves to earn the shutout.
  • The Vegas Golden Knights have obliterated all expectations going into the season becoming the first expansion to win their division in their 1st season. They have broken the record for most wins by an expansion with 51 wins.
  • Marc-Andre Fleury went 29-13-4 this season for the Knights with a 2.24 GAA and .927% save%. He has won 3 Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins and has started in 113 playoff games. In the playoffs he is 62-51 with a 2.65 GAA and a .908 save%
  • Jonathan Quick went 33-28-3 this season with a 2.40 GAA and a .921 save% with 5 shutouts. He has won 2 Stanley Cups with a Con Smythe win in 2012. He has appeared in 81 playoff games and has a 2.27 GAA and a .921 save% with 9 shutouts. Quick made 27 saves out of 28 in game 1 and kept the Kings throughout the game.
  • Drew Doughty has been suspended for game 2 against the Knights for an illegal check to the head on Vegas forward William Carrier. Drew Doughty is consistently among the league leaders in TOI per game and put up career high numbers this year for the Kings. He has only been fined once in his career for crosschecking Blues forward TJ Oshie in the 2011-12 season 6 years ago.


I'll update the defensive pairings after morning skate.

GO KINGS GO!!!



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RIP sweet princes.

If the Kings can manage to win this game then we're good. A very tall order.


If we lose I'm ready to call the series done. Don't think the boys can handle going down 0-2
 
Gadzooks our D tonight is green other than Dion and AMart

LaDue had a couple play breakups last game, he wasn't as bad as portrayed I thought. Still, he has no business getting the amount of minutes he's about to get tonight
 
SFKingshomer said:
I'd prefer to see Kempe with Kopitar and Brown and that 70's line back together...

Kempe-Kopitar-Brown
Pearson-Carter-Toffoli
Rieder-Amadio-Lewis
Clifford-Thompson-Mitchell
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Yeah, feels like wasted potential having Kempe on that 3rd line, especially with how little Stevens seems to play him.
 
No Doughty, no Muzzin, no problem! Well at least we wont be disappointed in a loss. Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Perhaps if Muzzin is ready for Sunday, and with Doughty back, we can claw back from being down 0-2 in the series.
 
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TBH, I think the best lines are

Brown-Kopi-Toffoli
Pearson-Carter-Reider
Kempe-Amadio-Lewis
Clifford-Thompson-Mitchell

The problem with Toffoli is that he can't fetch pucks, but when he's with Carter he's automatically placed into that role. However, put him with Brown who is a good forechecker and Kopitar, who can hold on to the puck, and he can thrive as a sniper.

Pearson is the exact opposite. He is a good forechecker but not a sniper; he should be in a position to feed Carter, who isn't a super forechecker.

Putting Kempe on wing with Amadio gives him some skill to work with, along with Lewis who can keep any line honest defensively.

Finally, Clifford Thompson Mitchell actually works well because they are similar players with similar goals; create energy and get pucks on net.

For fun, here are my "f*** it" lines.

Brown-Kopitar-Carter
Pearson-Kempe-Toffoli
Rieder-Amadio-Lewis
Iafallo-Thompson-Clifford
 
Kylo Ren said:
I'd like to see this. Stevens is so bad with lineups.
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This is one thing Sutter has on Stevens (among many other things IMO), his crazy line blender actually came up with interesting lines eventually. Stevens seems to be sticking with the same things for too long.

We'll have to go down at least 2-0 before we MIGHT see any real change.
 
lexlavender said:
This is one thing Sutter has on Stevens (among many other things IMO), his crazy line blender actually came up with interesting lines eventually. Stevens seems to be sticking with the same things for too long.

We'll have to go down at least 2-0 before we MIGHT see any real change.
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That's what's so frustrating. He takes his sweet time. You would think with the specialized offense coach they hired this season they would try to fix the problems early on.
 
Sweet fancy Moses look at that f***ing line up.

Is this a pre-season game or Game 2 of a first round series?

Iafallo was not good last game but, still, I'm wondering if he isn't back to full health.

A guy I know for sure isn't back to full health is Lewis. Has not been the same since the injury.
 
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lexlavender said:
This is one thing Sutter has on Stevens (among many other things IMO), his crazy line blender actually came up with interesting lines eventually. Stevens seems to be sticking with the same things for too long.

We'll have to go down at least 2-0 before we MIGHT see any real change.
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In my opinion I think Sutter's the better coach at pretty much everything except player relationships. Much, much better in-game coach. Played the system well too between games calling Gibson the best goalie ever, saying the Kings won't go down quietly against San Jose, taking pressure off his team after tough losses in the media saying odd things, etc. Was just too much of a hard ass and completely lost the team when he stripped Brown of the captaincy.

BigKing said:
Sweet fancy Moses look at that ****ing line up.

Is this a pre-season game or Game 2 of a first round series?

Iafallo was not good last game but, still, I'm wondering if he isn't back to full health.

A guy I know for sure isn't back to full health is Lewis. Has not been the same since the injury.
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Lewis has looked really slow since he returned. First few strides are awful. Looks Toffoli slow out there.
 
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