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Los Angeles Kings (0-0-0, 0 pts) at Colorado Avalanche (0-0-0, 0 pts)

Venue: Ball Arena
Date: Wednesday, September 30
Time: 10:00 pm EST
How To Watch: TNT/truTV/HBO MAX
Radio: 560 AM WQAM/Altitude Sports Radio 950 AM

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Los Angeles Kings News & Notes:

The Kings finished last season 35-27-20 with 90 points finishing fourth in the Pacific Division. They were swept by the Avalanche in the first round of the playoffs after being outscored 13-5. They now have Peter Laviolette behind the bench and with Anze Kopitar retiring Drew Doughty has been named the captain. The Kings went 0-3-0 in the regular season against the Avalanche, averaging 1.7 goals per game.

Colorado Avalanche News and Notes:

The Avalanche are coming off winning the President’s Trophy with a 55-16-11 with 121 points but they were eliminated by the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Finals. They went 3-0-0 against the Kings in the regular season, averaging 4.3 goals per game.

Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines

Panarin-Byfield-Kempe
Zuccarello-Turcotte-Laferriere
Moore-Laughton-Haula
Lee-Helenius-Armia

Gustafsson-Clarke
Dumoulin-Doughty
Anderson-Ceci

Kuemper
Forsberg

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Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:

Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas
Landeskog-Nelson-Kadri
Schwartz-Svechkov-Hughes
Kelly-Roy

Toews-Makar
Kulak-Malinski
Manson-Burns
Juulsen

Wedgewood
Blackwood

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Players To Watch:

Los Angeles Kings

Erik Haula makes his Kings debut tonight. He’s coming off a season in which he recorded 38 points in 81 games for the Predators. He had 14 goals and 24 assists. Haula was a -15 with four power-play goals, a shorthanded goal, and a game-winning goal.

Colorado Avalanche

Martin Necas in his first season with Colorado last season had 100 points a career high recording a career high goals scored with 38 and a career high in assists with 62. He was a +47 with nine power-play goals and five game-winning goals.

Injury Report:

Los Angeles Kings

F Kevin Fiala – Out
D Joel Edmundson – DTD
F Corey Perry – DTD

Colorado Avalanche:

F Logan O’Connor – DTD
F Zachary L’Heureux – DTD

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