Nashville Predators (36-31-9, in the Central Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (31-26-19, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Monday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Kings host the Nashville Predators after Adrian Kempe scored two goals in the Kings’ 7-6 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles has a 12-17-9 record at home and a 31-26-19 record overall. The Kings have a 12-9-10 record in games they have more penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Nashville has a 36-31-9 record overall and a 16-16-6 record in road games. The Predators have gone 30-6-3 in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Monday for the third time this season. The Predators won the previous matchup 5-4 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Artemi Panarin has scored 27 goals with 53 assists for the Kings. Alex Laferriere has three goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Steven Stamkos has 38 goals and 22 assists for the Predators. Filip Forsberg has nine goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-2-4, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.2 assists, three penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Predators: 7-3-0, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.5 assists, 4.3 penalties and 11 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Kevin Fiala: out for season (leg), Andrei Kuzmenko: out (meniscus).<\/p>\n
Predators: Nicolas Hague: day to day (undisclosed).<\/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 (36-31-9, in the Central Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (31-26-19, 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":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-543508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nashville","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nashvillepredators","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116356952063451633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543508","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=543508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543508\/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=543508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}