The Canes take on the reeling Kings.
A depleted Canes team beat the Blackhawks on Thursday night. Due to whatever is rolling through the locker room, the Canes onky dressed 11 forwards and that was only because Ryan Suzuki arrived 15 minutes before warmups. He looked fine in his debut and pulled one out of the crease on a nice back check. His reward was being sent back to Chicago yesterday to make room for Riley Stillman. Moose opened his Canes account, Jarvis had another shorty, Slavin had a tap in. The team cancelled practice yesterday, we’ll have to see who is healthy enough to make it to the morning skate. Expect Andersen in goal.
The Kings are wrapping up a 5 game road trip and it’s not going well. They lost to the Jackets in OT last Saturday, then in regulation to Detroit, Florida and Tampa, the latter 2 by identical 3-0 shutouts after giving up 5 to Detroit. They’re 2-7-1 in their last 10. Despite the slump, they’re still 3rd in the division but only 1 point ahead of Calgary and 2 ahead of Vancouver, with games in hand on both. The big news on the trip is Drew Doughty’s return. He made his season debut on Wednesday after missing the first 47 games with a broken ankle sustained in a preseason game. Adrian Kempe has 24 goals, Anze Kopitar has 31 assists. Old friend Warren Foegele has 12 goals, 24 points and is tied with Kempe at +15. Another old friend, Joel Edmundson is +14. Darcy Kuemper has started 27 games in goal, we should see him tonight, he had Thursday off. He‘s 4th in the league in both goals against at 2.17 and save % at .921. He’s backed up by David Rittich at 2.62/.889 in 23 games. The Kings are 24th in goals per game and 5th in goals against. They’re 29th on the PP and 8th on the PK.
Black jerseys tonight. FanDuel for TV
A depleted Canes team beat the Blackhawks on Thursday night. Due to whatever is rolling through the locker room, the Canes onky dressed 11 forwards and that was only because Ryan Suzuki arrived 15 minutes before warmups. He looked fine in his debut and pulled one out of the crease on a nice back check. His reward was being sent back to Chicago yesterday to make room for Riley Stillman. Moose opened his Canes account, Jarvis had another shorty, Slavin had a tap in. The team cancelled practice yesterday, we’ll have to see who is healthy enough to make it to the morning skate. Expect Andersen in goal.
The Kings are wrapping up a 5 game road trip and it’s not going well. They lost to the Jackets in OT last Saturday, then in regulation to Detroit, Florida and Tampa, the latter 2 by identical 3-0 shutouts after giving up 5 to Detroit. They’re 2-7-1 in their last 10. Despite the slump, they’re still 3rd in the division but only 1 point ahead of Calgary and 2 ahead of Vancouver, with games in hand on both. The big news on the trip is Drew Doughty’s return. He made his season debut on Wednesday after missing the first 47 games with a broken ankle sustained in a preseason game. Adrian Kempe has 24 goals, Anze Kopitar has 31 assists. Old friend Warren Foegele has 12 goals, 24 points and is tied with Kempe at +15. Another old friend, Joel Edmundson is +14. Darcy Kuemper has started 27 games in goal, we should see him tonight, he had Thursday off. He‘s 4th in the league in both goals against at 2.17 and save % at .921. He’s backed up by David Rittich at 2.62/.889 in 23 games. The Kings are 24th in goals per game and 5th in goals against. They’re 29th on the PP and 8th on the PK.
Black jerseys tonight. FanDuel for TV