2018-19 Regular Season Game 17 Toronto Maple Leafs Vs LA Kings

Good evening Kings fans! Tonight your LA Kings play the Toronto Maple Leafs for the final time this season as the Kings host the Leafs at Staples Center. The Leafs are without superstar forward Auston Matthews due to a shoulder injury. The Kings have been bitten by the injury bug hard this year as both Jonathan Quick and Jack Campbell are out with knee injuries. This means that Peter Budaj and rookie goalie Cal Peterson will be your goalies until Quick and Campbell are back. Here’s what Kings forward Trevor Lewis said about the Kings battling through adversity this season, “I think every team gets injuries. … Every teams’ going to go through injuries. We just have to stay with it and keep battling through.”

Kings record before the game
(5-10-1)

Maple Leafs record before the game
(11-6-0)

Tonight's starting lineup for your LA Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown

Ilya Kovalchuk-Jeff Carter-Tyler Toffoli

Tanner Pearson-Michael Amadio-Trevor Lewis   

Kyle Clifford-Adrian Kempe-Nate Thompson  

Defense Pairings

Derek Forbort-Drew Doughty

Jake Muzzin-Alec Martinez

Dion Phaneuf-Oscar Fantenberg

Tonight's starting goalie for your LA Kings is Peter Budaj (backup goalie is Cal Petersen)

Scratches for tonight's game: Paul LaDue

Players on the injury reserve: Jonny Brodzinski (shoulder injury) Jonathan Quick (knee injury) Jack Campbell (knee injury)

At 2:42 in the 1st period the Leafs jumped out to an early 1-0 lead the goal was scored by number 43 Nazim Kadri, the goal was his (1st of the game and 6th of the season). Then at 6:12 the Maple Leafs made it 2-0. The goal was scored by number 91 John Tavares, the goal was his (1st goal of the game and 11th of the season). At 14:38 the Kings scored to cut the Leafs lead in half by a score of 1-2. The goal was scored by number 9 Adrian Kempe, the goal was his (1st goal of the game and 2nd of the season).

1st period analysis

• Kings started out flat
• Drew and early penalty which resulted in a Toronto power play goal.
• Kings drawing to many penalties in the period.
• Kings could not get the puck out of their zone as the Leafs had power play units and sustained pressure in the offensive zone.
• Ineffective power play for the Kings
• Very few offensive transitions for the Kings
• Kings managed to get a goal via deflection
• Kings played mostly in their own zone in the period.

At 1:15 in the 2nd period the Leafs made it 3-1. The goal was scored by number 44 Morgan Rielly, the goal was his (1st goal of the game and 8th of the season). Then at 4:33 Toronto made it 4-1. The goal was scored by number 18 Andreas Johnsson, the goal was his (1st of the game and 2nd of the season). Then at 7!9 it was a four goal lead for the Maple Leafs as they made it a 5-1 game. The goal was scored by number 43 Nazem Kadri, the goal was his (2nd goal of the game and 7th of the season).

2nd period analysis

• Bad defense leads to another Leafs goal
  
  
• Not following up the play
• Kings continue to take penalties

There were no goals scored in the 3rd period of play.

3rd period analysis 

• Kings backup goaltender Cal Petersen looked good in his NHL debut after Peter Budaj got pulled in the 2nd period.

Kings record after the game

(5-11-1)

Maple Leafs record after the game

(12-6-0)

Shots on goal for the Kings 23 and for the Maple Leafs 35

the Maple Leafs went 3 for 6 on the power play, while the Kings went 0 for 2

the Kings face-off percentage was 52%, while Toronto's was 48%