Saturday skate; Gagne out, Hunter in

Simon Gagne’s day off the ice yesterday, it turns out, was more than a “maintenance day.” Gagne won’t play tonight, because of an injury that Terry Murray did not disclose. Trent Hunter will replace Gagne, who is considered day to day, and the Kings’ forwards are expected to skate as follows…

Penner-Kopitar-Williams
Parse-Richards-Brown
Richardson-Stoll-Hunter
Clifford-Lewis-Moreau

Drew Doughty will be back in the lineup, as expected, with Slava Voynov headed to Manchester. More notes and quotes to come…

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