2020-21 Regular Season Pregame: Game 27 St. Louis Blues Vs LA Kings

 Good Evening Hockey Fans! The Kings play game one 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 7:00 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 Darren 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

(14-9-5)

Kings Record Before The Game

(11-10-6) 

Pregame Notes: The Kings rank 24th in the league with a 48.59 Corsi percentage, while the Blues rank 22nd with a 48.75 percentage. The Kings also are ranked 5th for scoring chance percentages with 46.17, while the Blues rank 13th with 49.21. Kings forward Anze Kopitar ranks 10th among points in the NHL with a total of 32 points.

Goaltender Comparisons: Troy Grosenick and Cal Petersen have combined a total of 1.81 goals against average and a .945 save percentage coming into tonight’s game for the Kings. Villie Husso and Jordan Binnghamton have combined for a total of 3.18 goals against average and a .892 save percentage for St. Louis.

Tonight’s Lineup For The St. Louis Blues 

Jordan Kyrou-Ryan O’Reilly-Vladimir Tarasenko

Mike Hoffman-Brayden Schenn-David Perron 

Zach Sanford-Oskar Sundqvist-Tyler Bozak 

Kyle Clifford-Dakota Joshua-Sammy Blais

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: Nathan Walker, Steve Santini 

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

Taxi Squad: Forwards: Sam Anas, Austin Poganski Defenseman: Jake Wallman Goaltender: Jon Gillies 

COVID-19 Protocol: None

Tonight's Starting Lineup For Your Kings

Alex Iafallo-Anze Kopitar-Adrian Kempe

Andreas Athanasiou-Gabriel Vilardi-Jeff Carter

Trevor Moore-Blake Lizotte-Austin Wagner 

Carl Grundstrom-Jaret Anderson-Dolan-Matt Luff

Defense Pairings

Mikey Anderson-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: Kurtis MacDermid Michael Amadio

Taxi Squad Players: Forwards: Lias Andersson, Rasmus Kupari Defensemen: Daniel Brickley, Mark Alt, Austin Strand Goaltender: Matt Vitallia Troy Grosenick

Players On The Injury Reserve List: Martin Frk (Lower Body), Dustin Brown (Upper Body) 

COVID-19 Protocol: None