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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

2020-21 Regular Season Pregame: Game 18 Los Angeles Kings Vs St. Louis Blues

 Good Evening Hockey Fans! Tonight the LA Kings play game four on this six game road trip, the Kings play game two of a two game series, against the St Louis Blues from the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The game will have an 8:30 cst (6:30 pst) start time. Tonight’s game will be able to stream on the NBC Sports app or online at NBC Sports.com, tonight’s broadcast will be on NBCSN as John Kelly will have play by play and Darren Pang will provide color commentary. Both the Kings and Blues will have radio feeds, as Nick Nickson and Daryl Evans will have the radio feed on the Kings IHeartRadio Network. Blues fans can tune into 101 ESPN as Chris Kerber and Joe Vitale will have the call.


Kings Record Before The Game

(8-6-3)


Blues Record Before The Game

(10-7-2)


Dustin Brown coming into tonight’s game has scored 4 goals out of the last 5 games. Brown is also tied for fifth place for goals in the NHL as he has scored a total of 10 goals so far. Brown is also 5th all time for US born players as well, and also one of two players in league history to record a goal in each of his 1,000th 1,100th and 1,200th games.


St. Louis Blues Defenseman Carl Gunnarson suffered a season ending right knee injury last game as he collided along the boards when going for a loose puck battle behind the Blues net with Kings forward Gabe Vilardi. 


Goaltender Comparisons: Jonathan Quick and Cal Petersen have combined a total of 2.62 goals against average and a .914 save percentage coming into tonight’s game for the Kings. Jordan Binnington and Ville Husso have combined for a total of 3.12 goals against average and a .894 save percentage for St. Louis. 



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


Kurtis MacDermid-Drew Doughty 


Tobias Bjornfot-Matt Roy


Olli Maatta-Sean Walker


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

 
Scratches For Tonight's Game: Matt Luff 


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


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


Niko Mikkola-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), Carl Gunnarsson (Knee), Erik Foley (Concussion). 


Taxi Squad: Forwards: Nathan Walker, Dakota Joshua Defenseman: Jake Wallman, Scott Perunovich Goaltender: Joel Hofer


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