2021-22 NHL Regular Season Pregame Game 1: Vegas Golden Knights Vs LA Kings

 Good Evening Hockey Fans! Welcome to the 2021-22 NHL season opening night for your LA Kings. Tonight marks the Kings 55 season in the NHL. For tonight’s opening night matchup the Vegas Golden Knights are in town. Tonight’s game is a 7:30 start time from Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. For Golden Knights fans you can tune in to AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain as David Goucher and Shane Hindy will have play by play and color commentary. For the English radio feed Dan D'Uva and Gary Lawless will have the call on 98.9 FM Las Vegas. 

Golden Knights Record Before The Game

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Kings Record Before The Game

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Pregame Notes: Kings forward Vladimar Tkachev will play his first ever NHL game tonight, he was signed by the Kings as a free agent this past May. 

Tonight’s Lineup For The Vegas Golden Knights 

Max Pacioretty-Chandler Stephenson-Mark Stone

Jonathan Marchessault-William Karlsson-Reily Smith

Evgini Dadonov-Nolan Patrick-Keegan Kolesar

Peyton Krebs-Jonas Røndbjerg-Jake Leschyshyn

Defense Pairings 

Alec Martinez-Alex Pietrangelo

Brayden McNabb-Shea Theodore 

Nicolas Hague-Zach Whitecloud

Tonight’s Starting Goalie Is Robin Leinher (Backup Is Laurent Brossoit)

Scratches For Tonight’s Game: Dylan Coghlan,William Carrier,Mattias Jarnmark

Players On Injury Reserve: Alex Tuch (Shoulder Injury, duration of the injury six months) Nicolas Roy (Back injury, duration of injury undisclosed) Brett Howden (undisclosed, duration of the injury day to day)

Tonight's Starting Lineup For Your Kings

Viktor Arvidsson-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown 

Alex Iafallo-Phillip Danault-Adrian Kempe

Vladimir Tkachev-Gabriel Vilardi-Arthur Kaliyev

Brendan Lemiuex-Blake Lizotte-Trevor Moore 

Defense Pairings

Mikey Anderson-Drew Doughty 

Tobias Bjornfot-Matt Roy

Alex Edler-Sean Walker

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

 
Scratches For Tonight's Game: Christian Wolanin, Carl Grundstrom, 

Players On The Injury Reserve List: Andreas Athanasiou (Undisclosed injury, duration day to day) Olli Maatta (Upper Body, duration of injury day to day), Lias Andersson (Groin injury Duration of injury unknown)