Kirill Kaprizov #97 skating for the Minnesota Wild

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Los Angeles Kings (1-2-0, 2 pts) at Minnesota Wild (1-1-0, 2 pts)
Venue: Xcel Energy Center
Date: Monday, October 13
Time: 8:00 pm EST / 7:00 pm CST 

TV: ESPN+ / FDSN / FDSW
Radio: 
Los Angeles Kings – ESPN Radio 710 AM
Minnesota Wild- KFAN 100.3 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Los Angeles Kings +1.5 ML +105
Minnesota Wild -1.5 ML -125
O/U 5.5

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Los Angeles Kings News & Notes: 

The Kings lost a battle to the Jets on Saturday night 3-2 to the Winnipeg Jets. Adrian Kempe had a goal and an assist, and Mikey Anderson added a goal for Los Angeles. With Cody Ceci on the ice this season, the Kings are being outshot 23-10 and out-scored 5-0.

Minnesota Wild News & Notes:

Minnesota has scored 9 goals through 2 games; the only problem is that in one of those games, they gave up 7. Minnesota is coming off a 7-4 loss to Columbus in its home opener. The Wild were a better team on the road than at home last season, with 46 points at home and 51 on the road.

Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines:

Kuzmenko-Kopitar-Kempe
Fiala-Byfield-Armia
Foegele-Danault-Moore
Malott-Turcotte-Laferriere

Dumoulin-Doughty
Edmundson-Clarke
Anderson-Ceci

Kuemper
Forsberg

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Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

Kaprizov-Rossi-Boldy
Foligno-Eriksson Ek-Tarasenko
Trenin-Hartman-Johansson
Ohgren-Haight-Hinostroza

Brodin-Faber
Buium-Spurgeon
Middleton-Bogosian

Gustavsson
Wallstedt

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Players To Watch:

Los Angeles Kings

Trevor Moore led the Kings with 4 points (2g, 2a) in 3 games against the Wild a year ago. Adrian Kempe had 3 points (2g, 1a) in 3 games against Los Angeles last season, including a goal and an assist in a Kings 4-1 victory on December 7.

Minnesota Wild

Matt Boldy started the season with back-to-back three-point games with 2 goals and 4 assists. Kirill Kaprizov is tied with Boldy for the team lead in points, also with 2 goals and 4 assists. Ryan Hartman led the Wild with 3 points (1g, 2a) in 3 games against the Kings last year.

Injury Report:

Los Angeles Kings

D Kyle Burroughs – IR
RW Corey Perry – IR

Minnesota Wild

RW Mats Zuccarello– IR
C Nico Sturm – IR

Next Game:

Los Angeles – October 16 vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Minnesota – October 14 at Dallas Stars

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