2020-21 Regular Season Pregame: Game 17 Los Angeles Kings Vs St. Louis Blues

 Good Evening Hockey Fans! Tonight the LA Kings play game three on this six game road trip, the Kings play game one of a two game series, against the St Louis Blues from the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The game will have a 7:00 CST (5:00 PST) start time. Tonight’s game will be able to stream on Fox Sports Go for both the Kings and Blues, Alex Faust and Jim Fox will have the call on Fox Sports West and Nick Nickson and Daryl Evans will have the radio feed on the Kings IHeartRadio Network. For Blues fans you can tune into Fox Sports Midwest as John Kelly will have play by play and Dareen Pang will provide color commentary, and for radio listeners you can tune into 101 ESPN as Chris Kerber and Joe Vitale will have the call 

The Blues will wear their Reverse Retro jerseys for the series against the Kings.

Kings Record Before The Game

(7-6-3)

Blues Record Before The Game

(10-6-2)

Pregame Notes: Drew Doughty leads the Kings in Points with 8 in the last five games. Drew has scored 4 goals and racked up 7 assists. 

The Kings penalty kill coming into tonight’s game ranks 9th in the NHL with a percentage of 83.0%. The Blues rank 24th in the League with a penalty kill percentage of 74.2%  

Goaltender Comparisons: Jonathan Quick and Cal Petersen have combined a total of 2.81 goals against average and a .907 save percentage for the Kings. Jordan Binnington and Ville Husso have combined for a total of 3.13 goals against average and a .894 save percentage.

Tonight's Starting Lineup For Your Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown 

Adrian Kempe-Gabriel Vilardi-Jeff Carter

Carl Grundstrom-Blake Lizotte-Trevor Moore

Andreas Athanasiou-Michael Amadio-Austin Wagner

Defense Pairings

Mikey Anderson-Drew Doughty 

Tobias Bjornfot-Matt Roy

Olli Maatta-Sean Walker

Tonight's Starting Goalie For Your Kings is Jonathan Quick (Backup Goalie Is Cal Petersen)

 
Scratches For Tonight's Game: Kurtis MacDermid, Matt Luff 

Taxi Squad Players: Forwards: Lias Andersson, Boko Imama, Drake Dymsha, Rasmus Kupari Defensemen: Austin Strand, Mark Alt Goaltender Troy Grossneick 

Players On The Injury Reserve List: Martin Frk (Lower Body), Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Upper Body) 

COVID-19 Protocol: None

Tonight’s Lineup For The St. Louis Blues 

Jordan Kyrou-Ryan O’Reilly-David Perron

Sammy Blais-Brayden Schenn-Mike Hoffman 

Zach Sanford-Oskar Sundqvist-Austin Poganski

Kyle Clifford-Jacob De La Rose-Mackenzie MacEachern 

Defense Pairings 

Torrey Krug-Justin Faulk 

Marco Scandella-Vince Dunn 

Carl Gunnarsson-Robert Bortuzzo 

Tonight’s Starting Goalie Is Jordan Binnington (Backup Is Ville Husso)

Scratches For Tonight’s Game: Jaden Schwartz, Colton Parayko

Players On Injury Reserve: Vladimir Tarasenko (shoulder), Ivan Barbashev (Ankle), Robert Thomas (Hand), Tyler Bozak (Undisclosed)

Taxi Squad: Forwards: Nathan Walker, Dakota Joshua Defenseman: Jake Wallman, Niko Mikkola Goaltender: Joel Hofer

COVID-19 Protocol: None