2020-21 Regular Season Pregame: Game 22 St. Louis Blues Vs LA Kings

 Good Evening Hockey Fans! The Kings play game three of the three game homestand tonight as the St. Louis Blues are in town... to battle your Los Angeles Kings! Tonight’s game is a 6:00 pm start time from Staples Center in Downtown LA. Tonight’s game will be streamed on Fox Sports Go for both teams, 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 

Blues Record Before The Game

(12-9-2)

Kings Record Before The Game

(9-8-5)

Pregame Notes: Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko will make his return to the Blues after having season ending Shoulder surgery last season. 

Goaltender Comparisons: Jonathan Quick and Cal Petersen have combined a total of 2.67 goals against average and a .912 save percentage coming into tonight’s game for the Kings. Villie Husso and Jordan Binnghamton have combined for a total of 3.11 goals against average and a .898 save percentage for St. Louis

Tonight’s Lineup For The St. Louis Blues 

Zach Sanford-Ryan O’Reilly-Jordan Kyrou

Vladimir Tarasenko-Brayden Schenn-David Perron

Kyle Clifford-Oskar Sundqvist-Mike Hoffman 

Sammy Blais-Dakota Joshua-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: Jake Wallman

Players On Injury Reserve: Ivan Barbashev (Ankle), Robert Thomas (Hand), Tyler Bozak (Undisclosed), Carl Gunnarsson (Knee), Erik Foley (Concussion), Jacob De La Rose (Lower Body), Colton Parayko (Upper Body), Jaden Schwartz (Lower Body) 

Taxi Squad: Forwards: Nathan Walker, Sam Anas, Austin Poganski Defenseman: Steve Santini Goaltender: Joel Hofer, Jon Gillies 

Tonight's Starting Lineup For Your Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown 

Andreas Athanasiou-Gabriel Vilardi-Jeff Carter

Adrian Kempe-Rasmus Kupari-Trevor Moore

Carl Grundstrom-Blake Lizotte-Matt Luff 

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: Michael Amadio, Kurtis MacDermid, Austin Wagner 

Taxi Squad Players: Forwards: Aidan Dudas, Akili Thomas Defensemen: Mark Alt, Cole Hults, Markus Phillips, Goaltender: Matt Vitallia 

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

COVID-19 Protocol: None