St. Louis Blues (31-31-11, in the Central Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (29-26-18, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Kings take on the St. Louis Blues looking to stop their four-game home skid.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles is 29-26-18 overall and 10-17-8 in home games. The Kings have allowed 214 goals while scoring 191 for a -23 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
St. Louis is 13-19-4 in road games and 31-31-11 overall. The Blues are 24-10-5 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
The matchup Wednesday is the third time these teams play this season. The Kings won 5-4 in a shootout in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Adrian Kempe has 27 goals and 35 assists for the Kings. Quinton Byfield has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Robert Thomas has 16 goals and 33 assists for the Blues. Jimmy Snuggerud has scored five goals and added five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 3-3-4, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.2 assists, three penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blues: 6-2-2, averaging 2.9 goals, five assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 1.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Kevin Fiala: out for season (leg), Andrei Kuzmenko: out (meniscus), Samuel Helenius: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
Blues: Tyler Tucker: out (lower-body).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues (31-31-11, in the Central Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (29-26-18, in the Pacific Division) Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5120],"tags":[61270,301,71,5,4,292,43,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-532628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-61270","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-blues","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-blues","17":"tag-stlouis","18":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116323423031410482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532628","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=532628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}