{"id":425349,"date":"2026-01-24T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:17:12","slug":"blues-take-on-the-kings-on-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425349\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues take on the Kings on losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/los-angeles-kings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> (20-16-13, in the Pacific Division) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/st-louis-blues-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> (19-24-8, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">St. Louis; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Kings -141, Blues +118; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Blues enter a matchup against the Los Angeles Kings as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">St. Louis is 19-24-8 overall and 12-9-5 at home. The Blues have a -50 scoring differential, with 122 total goals scored and 172 given up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Los Angeles has gone 12-6-6 in road games and 20-16-13 overall. The Kings have allowed 133 goals while scoring 126 for a -7 scoring differential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams meet this season. The Kings won 2-1 in overtime in the last matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/jordan-kyrou-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Kyrou<\/a> has scored nine goals with 13 assists for the Blues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/oskar-sundqvist-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oskar Sundqvist<\/a> has two goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/kevin-fiala-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Fiala<\/a> has 18 goals and 18 assists for the Kings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/quinton-byfield-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quinton Byfield<\/a> has scored four goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Blues: 4-6-0, averaging 2.1 goals, 3.6 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Kings: 4-2-4, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.2 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">INJURIES: Blues: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Kings: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings (20-16-13, in the Pacific Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (19-24-8, in the Central Division) St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-425349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115949564323269921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425349","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=425349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}