Nashville Predators (34-31-9, in the Central Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (30-26-18, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Kings -125, Predators +105; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators aim to break a three-game losing streak with a win against the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles has an 11-17-8 record at home and a 30-26-18 record overall. The Kings have a -22 scoring differential, with 193 total goals scored and 215 conceded.<\/p>\n
Nashville has a 34-31-9 record overall and a 14-16-6 record in road games. The Predators have a -29 scoring differential, with 216 total goals scored and 245 allowed.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the second time these teams play this season. The Predators won 5-4 in a shootout in the previous matchup. Ryan O’Reilly led the Predators with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Adrian Kempe has 28 goals and 35 assists for the Kings. Quinton Byfield has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Steven Stamkos has 36 goals and 22 assists for the Predators. Filip Forsberg has scored six goals and added eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-3-3, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.4 assists, 2.9 penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Predators: 5-4-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.3 assists, four penalties and 10.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 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
Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Nashville Predators (34-31-9, in the Central Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (30-26-18, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-536230","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\/116334137486032923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536230","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=536230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}