Monday practice update; Sturm in?

It’s not set in stone, but it seems likely that Marco Sturm will make his Kings debut tomorrow night in a fourth-line role. Terry Murray said Sturm indicated, during practice today, that he felt ready to play, and Murray said he would ease Sturm into the lineup in a fourth-line role, and build toward that eventual line with Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown. Sturm’s status probably won’t be officially determined until the morning, and that’s when we will know who might come out of the lineup as well. More notes and quotes from practice to come…

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