2020-21 Regular Season Pregame: Game 25 Los Angeles Kings Vs Colorado Avalanche

Good Evening Hockey Fans! Tonight your LA Kings play game three of a four game road trip as they take on the Colorado Avalanche. Tonight’s game is a 7 pm puck drop (6:00 PM PST) from Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado. For the Kings broadcast you can tune into Fox Sports West as Alex Faust and Jim Fox will have your TV and Nick Nickson and Daryl Evans can be heard on the Kings IHeartRadio Network. For the Avalanche broadcast you can tune into Altitude Sports as Marc Moser and Peter Mcnab will have the TV call and Conor McGahey will do play by play and color commentary for the game on Altitude Sports AM and Altitude Sports FM 

Kings Record Before The Game

(11-8-6)

Avalanche Record Before The Game

(14-8-2)

Pregame Notes: Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnion is on a three game scoring drought, as his last goal came against Arizona on February 27. Both teams are ranked in the top 10 for penalty kills across the league as the Kings are 8th with 83.1 and the Avs are ranked 6th with 85.9. The Avalanche are 7-4-1 on home ice this season. Daniel Brickely will play his first game for the Kings in two seasons.

Tonight's Starting Lineup For Your Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown 

Andreas Athanasiou-Gabriel Vilardi-Jeff Carter

Trevor Moore-Blake Lizotte-Adrian Kempe

Carl Grundstrom-Michael Amadio-Austin Wagner 

Defense Pairings

Mikey Anderson-Drew Doughty 

Tobias Bjornfot-Matt Roy

Daniel Brickley-Sean Walker

Tonight's Starting Goalie For Your Kings is Cal Petersen (Backup Goalie Is Troy Grosenick)

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

Taxi Squad Players: Forwards: Rasmus Kupari Defensemen: Mark Alt, Austin Strand, Goaltender: Matt Vitallia 

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

COVID-19 Protocol: Olli Maatta

Tonight’s lineup for the Colorado Avalanche 

Gabriel Landeskog-Nathan MacKinnon-Mikko Rantanen

Brandon Saad-Nazem Kadri-Andre Burakovsky 

Valeri Nichushkin-Tyson Jost-Joonas Donskoi

Matt Calvert-Pierre-Edouard Bellemare-Logan O’Connor 

Defense Pairings 

Ryan Graves-Devon Toews

Jacob Macdonald-Samuel Girard

Dan Renouf-Greg Pateryn

Tonight’s starting goalie is Philipp Grubauer (backup is Hunter Miska) 

Scratches For Tonight's Game : None

Players On Injury Reserve: Pavel Francouz (lower body), Cale Makar (Upper Body), J.T. Compher (Upper Body), Bowen Byram (Upper Body), Conor Timmins (Upper Body), Erik Johnson (Upper Body), Dennis Gilbert, (Upper Body)

Taxi Squad: Kyle Burroughs, Peyton Jones, Jayson Megna, Kiefer Sherwood

COVID-19: None