2019-20 Regular Season Pregame: Game 4 Nashville Predators Vs LA Kings

Good Evening Hockey Fans. Tonight the Nashville Predators are in town to battle your Los Angeles Kings. The Kings play their home opener today which will mark the first game in Staples Center’s 20th season as the Kings arena. Tonight’s game will be at 3: PM PST and the game will be broadcasted on Fox Sports West and streaming on the Fox Sports Go app. Alex Faust Jim Fox will have the call on Fox Sports West while you can hear Nick Nickson and Daryl Evans on the radio via the Kings IHeartRadio Network. Nashville fans can also stream the game on Fox Sports Go app and watch the game on Fox Sports Tennessee with Willy Daunic and Chris Mason on the call for their broadcasting team.

The Kings are coming off a embracing loos to the Vancouver Canucks 8-2. The Kings will have new lines for today’s game against the Preds. This is the first time of the season the Kings will play a team outside of their division. Tonight marks the first game at home for the Kings this season.

The Predators will play their first ever game on the road for the season today against the Kings. Predators forward Matt Duchene Scored his first goal as a member of the Predators last game against the Washington Capitals.

Kings record before the game

(1-2-0)

Preds record before the game

(3-1-0)

Tonight’s lineup for the Nashville Predators 

Calle Jarnkrok-Ryan Johansen-Viktor Arvidsson

Filip Foresberg-Matt Duchene-Mikeal Grundland

Colton Sissons-Nick Bonino-Austin Watson

Daniel Carr-Kyle Turris-Craig Smith

Defense Pairings 

Roman Josi-Ryan Ellis

Mattias Ekholm-Dante Fabbro

Dan Hamhuis-Yannick Weber

Tonight’s starting goalie is Juuse Saros (backup is Pekka Rinne)

Scratches for tonight’s game: Matt Irwin 

Players on injury reserve: Rocco Grimaldi (lower body)

Tonight's starting lineup for your Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown 

Ilya Kovalchuk-Blake Lizotte-Jeff Carter

Adrian Kempe-Austin Wagner-Tyler Toffoli

Kyle Clifford-Micheal Amadio-Trevor Lewis

Defense Pairings

Ben Hutton-Drew Doughty 

Alec Martinez-Matt Roy 

Joakim Ryan-Sean Walker

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

Scratches for tonight's game: Tobias Bojrnfot Carl Grundstrom

Players on the injury reserve: Derek Forbort (back) Kurtis MacDermid (u disclosed)