{"id":480729,"date":"2026-03-02T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/480729\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:03:22","slug":"nhl-game-preview-colorado-avalanche-at-los-angeles-kings-with-line-combinations-03-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/480729\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Los Angeles Kings with Line Combinations 03\/02\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-98.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/David Zalubowski<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (39-10-9, 87 pts) at Los Angeles Kings (24-21-14, 62 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: crypto.com Arena<br \/>Date: Monday, March 2<br \/>Time: 10:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/ALT 2\/KTVD-TV\/FDSN W<br \/>Radio:\u00a092.5 ALT Radio\/1290 AM KPAY<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche got back in the win column Saturday with a 3-1 win over the Blackhawks. They\u2019ve won three of their last four games, averaging 3.3 goals per game while allowing 2.5 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Kings picked up a 2-0 win over the Flames on Saturday. The win snapped a five-game losing streak. They went 1-4-1 in February, averaging two goals per game while allowing 4.2 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Landeskog-MacKinnon-Necas<br \/>Lehkonen-Nelson-Nichushkin <br \/>Colton-Drury-Olofsson<br \/>Bardakov-Kelly-Brindley<\/p>\n<p>Toews-Makar<br \/>Manson-Burns<br \/>Kulak-Malinski <\/p>\n<p>Blackwood<br \/>Wedgewood<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Colorado&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Colorado Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Panarin-Kopitar-Kempe<br \/>Moore-Byfield-Laferriere<br \/>Foegele-Turcotte-Perry<br \/>Malott-Helenius-Ward<\/p>\n<p>Anderson-Ceci<br \/>Edmundson-Clarke<br \/>Moverare-Dumoulin<\/p>\n<p>Kuemper<br \/>Forsberg<\/p>\n<p>Buy Los Angeles Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/los-angeles-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>Martin Necas has a goal in each game against the Kings this season. He has three goals in two games against them. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Kempe has an assist in each game against Colorado this season.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/logan-oconnor-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Out<br \/>F Joel Kivirant\u00a0\u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n<p>F Kevin Fiala \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/olympics-kevin-fiala-stretchered-off-against-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IR<\/a><br \/>F Joel Armia \u2013 DTD<br \/>D Drew Doughty \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Andrei Kuzmenko\u00a0\u2013 Out<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/David Zalubowski Colorado Avalanche (39-10-9, 87 pts) at Los Angeles Kings (24-21-14, 62 pts) Venue: crypto.com ArenaDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[366,193,1843,192,144,5277,5,5236,145,513,4,5573,2219],"class_list":{"0":"post-480729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-central-division","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-injury-report","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-martin-necas","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nhl-game-preview","20":"tag-pacific-division"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116159487079770297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480729","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=480729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}