{"id":545227,"date":"2026-04-07T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:16:13","slug":"skate-of-thrones-kings-rely-on-forsberg-third-line-in-seismic-win-over-predators-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545227\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate of Thrones | Kings rely on Forsberg, third line in seismic win over Predators \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Every game matters at this point for the Los Angeles Kings. But Monday\u2019s matchup with the Nashville Predators meant just a bit more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both teams entered even with 81 points, with Nashville owning the tiebreaker over LA. Despite sparing one point to the Predators with the overtime result, the Kings won 3-2 and now sit in the Western Conference\u2019s second Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LA\u2019s third line shone. Joel Armia opened up scoring by winning the puck in the neutral zone and flinging it in on the left side. After Nashville scored in the second period, winger Jared Wright found third-line center Scott Laughton for the go-ahead goal. The Predators answered again, forcing overtime, the Kings\u2019 NHL-record 32nd appearance past regulation this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thanks to number-two goalie Anton Forsberg, who made 29 total saves in the bout, the Predators were shut out in the shootout. Talk of Troy reporter Kasey Kazliner was present at Crypto.com Arena and broke the game down on Skate of Thrones, TOT\u2019s Kings podcast. Listen below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Every game matters at this point for the Los Angeles Kings. But Monday\u2019s matchup with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[366,5,17640,19292,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,231,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-545227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-kasey-kazliner","11":"tag-kazliner","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-nashville-predators","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116362673167521110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545227","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=545227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}