{"id":540153,"date":"2026-04-04T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:16:20","slug":"nhl-game-preview-toronto-maple-leafs-at-los-angeles-kings-with-line-combinations-04-04-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540153\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Toronto Maple Leafs at Los Angeles Kings with Line Combinations 04\/04\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-2-23.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs (32-31-13, 77 pts) at Los Angeles Kings (30-26-19, 79 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: crypto.com Arena<br \/>Date: Saturday, March 28<br \/>Time: 9:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/SNO\/CBC\/FDSNSC<br \/>Radio:\u00a0Sportsnet 590\/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>Toronto Maple Leafs News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs suffered a 4-1 loss to the Sharks on Thursday night. They\u2019re 1-2-0 on their road trip, averaging 2.3 goals per game while allowing 4.3 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Kings suffered a 5-4 shootout loss to the Predators on Thursday. They have points in five of their last six games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 3.2 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Cowan-Tavares-Nylander<br \/>Knies-Groulx-Maccelli<br \/>Joshua-Domi-Robertson<br \/>Lorentz-Quillan-Jarnkrok<\/p>\n<p>Rielly-Myers <br \/>McCabe-Carlo  <br \/>Benoit-Ekman Larsson<\/p>\n<p>Stolarz<br \/>Woll<\/p>\n<p>Buy Toronto Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/toronto-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=tor&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Toronto Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Panarin-Kopitar-Kempe <br \/>Moore-Byfield-Laferriere<br \/>Wright-Laughton-Armia<br \/>Joseph-Helenius-Ward<\/p>\n<p>Dumoulin-Doughty<br \/>Edmundson-Clarke<br \/>Anderson-Ceci<\/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>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p>John Tavares scored two goals in the Maple Leafs loss to the Kings back in November.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n<p>Quinton Byfield scored a goal and added an assist in the Kings\u2019 win over Toronto back on November 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p>D\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/chris-tanev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Tanev<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/dakota-mermis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dakota Mermis<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Auston Matthews \u2013 Out<\/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 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":"Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press via AP Toronto Maple Leafs (32-31-13, 77 pts) at Los Angeles Kings (30-26-19, 79&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[2216,5,5236,611,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4,5573,2219,1295,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-540153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-injury-report","11":"tag-john-tavares","12":"tag-kings","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-kings","15":"tag-lakings","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-kings","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangeleskings","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-game-preview","22":"tag-pacific-division","23":"tag-quinton-byfield","24":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116346395311516720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540153","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=540153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}