2018-19 Regular Season Game 70 Nashville Predators Vs LA Kings

Good Evening Kings Fans! Tonight starts a five game homestand for your LA Kings as they take on the Nashville Predators for the final season series meeting. The Preds currently sit in  2nd place in the Central Division. Tonight the Kings are hosting PRIDE night in honor of Hockey is For Everyone month and the You Can Play initiontive the league has to bring inculsinvness for the spirt of Hockey  Tonight Austin Wagner will be back in the lineup for your Kings.

Kings record before the game
(25-36-8)

Predators record before the game
(39-27-5)

Tonight's starting lineup for your Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown

Carl Grundstrom-Adrian Kempe-Tyler Toffoli

Brendan Leipsic-Jeff Carter-Ilya Kovalchuk

Kyle Clifford-Trevor Lewis-Austin Wagner

Defense Pairings

Derek Forbort-Drew Doughty

Alec Martinez-Matt Roy

Dion Phaneuf-Paul LaDue

Tonight's starting goalie for your Kings is Jonathan Quick (backup goalie is Jack Campbell)

Scratches for tonight's game: Kurtis MacDermid Jonny Brodzinski Sean Walker

Players on the injury reserve:

1st period analysis

The Kings take a penalty early on in the period. Nashville has done a good job at keeping the puck in the offensive zone midway through the period. Both teams are not getting a lot of chances on target, as most of the shots are going out of play or just wide of the net. The Kings are not making hard and crisp passes to each other.  the Predators get a goal off a 2 on 1 breakout, as it started from the Predators own zone and Viktor Arvidsson and Ryan Johansson made a give and go up the ice and Arvidsson put the puck home on the one time shot to make it 1-0. The Kings got two powerplays this period but could not convert on either of them.

At 15:04 in the 1st period the Preds made it a 1-0 game. The goal was scored by number  33 Viktor Arvidsson, the goal was his (1st of the game and 29th of the season). 

Kings penalty to Dion Phaneuf 2 minute minor for Tripping. Time of the penalty 4:42 in the 1st period.

Preds penalty to Ryan Ellis 2 minute minor for Hi-sticking. Time of the penalty 13:00 of the 1st period.

Preds penalty to Wayne Simmons’s 2 minute minor for Hooking. Time of the penalty 15:21 in the 1st period.

2nd period analysis

The Kings are hitting hard and the Kings tied the game of a goal from Austin Wagner. The goal was set up as Matt Roy passed the puck down low to Trevor Lewis. Lewis slid the puck over to Wagner to tie the game up at 1-1. The Kings are cycling the puck extremely well and are pressuring the Preds as all five men on the ice are playing great midway through the period. The Kings are having more zone time in the offensive zone. The Kings gave up two goals in the final 5 minutes of the period.

At 2:54 in the 2nd period the Kings made it a 1-1 game. The goal was scored by Austin Wagner, the goal was his (1st of the game and 10th of the season). Then at 15:32 the Preds regained the lead and made it a 2-1 game. The goal was scored by number 15 Craig Smith, the goal was his (1st of the game and 19th of the season). At 17:59 it was a 3-1 Predator lead. The goal was scored by number 10 Colton Sissons, the goal was his (1st of the game and 12th of the season).

There were no penalties in the period.

3rd period analysis

The Kings could not have found a way to score to tie the game up late in the period.

There were no goals in the period.

There were no penalties in the period.

Kings record after the game

(25-37-8)

Preds record after the game

(40-27-5)

Kings shots on goal 26

Preds shots on goal 34

Kings powerplay 0 for 2

Preds powerplay 0 for 1

Kings faceoff percentage 42%

Preds faceoff percentage 58%

Kings hit total 21

Preds hit total 15

Kings blocked shots total 11

Preds blocked shots total 19

Kings number of takeaways 2

Preds number of takeaways 3

Post game notes

Kings record against the Preds (1-2-0)