Toronto Maple Leafs (32-31-13, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (30-26-19, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Kings host the Toronto Maple Leafs after Adrian Kempe’s two-goal game against the Nashville Predators in the Kings’ 5-4 shootout loss.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles has an 11-17-9 record in home games and a 30-26-19 record overall. The Kings have gone 23-4-10 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Toronto has a 14-19-5 record in road games and a 32-31-13 record overall. The Maple Leafs have a -29 scoring differential, with 235 total goals scored and 264 given up.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams meet this season. The Kings won 4-3 in overtime in the last matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Artemi Panarin has 26 goals and 51 assists for the Kings. Quinton Byfield has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
William Nylander has 26 goals and 46 assists for the Maple Leafs. John Tavares has scored six goals with five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 3-3-4, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.8 assists, 2.7 penalties and 7.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: 4-4-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.1 assists, 5.5 penalties and 15.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 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
Maple Leafs: Chris Tanev: out for season (abdomen), Auston Matthews: out for season (knee).<\/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 Toronto Maple Leafs (32-31-13, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (30-26-19, in…\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-538200","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\/116339945741104172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538200","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=538200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538200\/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=538200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}