Tampa Bay Lightning (23-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (16-13-9, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to keep a five-game win streak intact when they play the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
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Los Angeles is 16-13-9 overall and 5-8-4 in home games. The Kings have a +one scoring differential, with 98 total goals scored and 97 given up.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has a 12-4-3 record in road games and a 23-13-3 record overall. The Lightning have a +26 scoring differential, with 129 total goals scored and 103 allowed.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Kings won 2-1 in the last meeting. Adrian Kempe led the Kings with two goals.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin Fiala has 13 goals and 12 assists for the Kings. Alex Laferriere has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov has 18 goals and 33 assists for the Lightning. Darren Raddysh has six goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 3-5-2, averaging 2.3 goals, 3.2 assists, 4.7 penalties and 10.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Lightning: 7-2-1, averaging 4.1 goals, 7.1 assists, 6.5 penalties and 17.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: None listed.<\/p>\n
Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (23-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (16-13-9, in the Pacific Division) Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[366,10969,2216,2580,5,1270,189,793,145,4,1335,2219,540,92,5168,5167,881],"class_list":{"0":"post-384630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-alex-laferriere","10":"tag-atlantic-division","11":"tag-darren-raddysh","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-kevin-fiala","14":"tag-lightning","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nikita-kucherov","19":"tag-pacific-division","20":"tag-tampa-bay","21":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabaylightning","24":"tag-the-kings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115819256475838493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}