{"id":490960,"date":"2026-03-07T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490960\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:17:13","slug":"canadiens-visit-the-kings-after-caufields-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490960\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens visit the Kings after Caufield&#8217;s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Canadiens (33-18-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (25-22-14, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Kings -130, Canadiens +110; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens visit the Los Angeles Kings after Cole Caufield\u2019s two-goal game against the Anaheim Ducks in the Canadiens\u2019 6-5 shootout loss.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has a 10-14-7 record in home games and a 25-22-14 record overall. The Kings have gone 19-2-7 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal has a 33-18-10 record overall and a 16-7-8 record on the road. The Canadiens have committed 261 total penalties (4.3 per game) to rank fourth in NHL play.<\/p>\n<p>The teams match up Saturday for the second time this season. The Kings won 5-1 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Quinton Byfield has 13 goals and 20 assists for the Kings. Adrian Kempe has six goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Caufield has 37 goals and 26 assists for the Canadiens. Nicholas Suzuki has four goals and 10 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 3-6-1, averaging 2.3 goals, four assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: 5-2-3, averaging 4.4 goals, 7.6 assists, 3.7 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Kings: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens (33-18-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (25-22-14, in the Pacific Division) Los Angeles;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[366,233,2617,971,37676,5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,21,4,292,46703,1295,43],"class_list":["post-490960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-kings","tag-adrian-kempe","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-california","tag-cole-caufield","tag-data-skrive","tag-hockey","tag-kings","tag-la","tag-la-kings","tag-lakings","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleskings","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nicholas-suzuki","tag-quinton-byfield","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116187145563424876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490960","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=490960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}