The Chicago Blackhawks are once again in Los Angeles Saturday to take on the Kings. Considering this will be the second time the Blackhawks face the Kings in three days, nothing much has changed since our last preview except that the Blackhawks pulled off a 2-1 victory in the first meeting.

In that game, the Blackhawks and Kings played a tight, low-scoring game that didn’t see a breakthrough until the second period. After a scoreless first, Chicago finally opened things up on a power play when Connor Bedard buried a setup from Tyler Bertuzzi to give the Hawks a 1–0 lead. The Blackhawks kept pressing and, just before the horn with only a few seconds left in the period, Wyatt Kaiser jumped up in the play and scored his first of the season, sending the Blackhawks into the intermission with a 2–0 cushion.

The Kings pushed back in the third, finally breaking through when Trevor Moore finished off a feed from Warren Foegele to cut the deficit to one. The Kings controlled much of the period from that point on, generating sustained pressure and earning a late power-play chance (hello, score effects). With the goalie pulled in the final minutes, the Kings flooded the zone, but Spencer Knight stood tall, turning aside everything they threw at him. While not the highest amount of shots Knight has seen, his 26-save performance anchored Chicago down the stretch, preserving the 2–1 victory and giving the Blackhawks a hard-earned road win.

Now the two teams will meet again on Saturday: the Blackhawks will try to carry their momentum into a second straight win over the Kings, while Los Angeles will be looking to flip the script from the last matchup.

Here were the lineups for each team from the start of Thursday’s game:

One shift for the Kings though came during the game and, based on their morning skate on Saturday, the Kings are going to stick with the lineup from that mid-game adjustment:

The @LAKings are going to start tonight how they finished on Thursday, per Jim Hiller. Believe that points to –

Laferriere – Kopitar – Kempe
Fiala – Byfield – Armia
Foegele – Danault – Moore
Kuzmenko – Turcotte – Perry

— Zach Dooley (@DooleyLAK) December 6, 2025

The Blackhawks may have a shift as well after Teuvo Teravainen took a puck to the face while diving for a clearing attempt late on Thursday night. Teuvo is quiestionable for this game and here was the lineup from Friday’s practice without him in it:

Teravainen lost a few teeth and is questionable for tomorrow, Blashill said https://t.co/OVy42UDGxo

— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) December 5, 2025

Tale of the Tape

Blackhawks — Statistic — Kings
46.72% (25th) — 5-on-5 Corsi For — 52.88% (5th)
45.66% (28th) — 5-on-5 Expected goals for — 50.48% (14th)
3.15 (11th) — Goals per game — 2.56 (29th)
2.81 (10th) — Goals against per game — 2.59 (t-4th)
47.1% (27th) — Faceoffs — 49.1% (22nd)
23.2% (9th) — Power play — 12.9% (32nd)
85.3% (4th) — Penalty kill — 80.0% (t-19th)
(All stats from this season)

How to watch

When: 8 p.m. CT
Where: Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles
TV: CHSN
Webstream: ESPN+
Radio: WGN 720