The following was from Coyotes beat writer Sarah McLellan, who writes for the Arizona Republic.
Expect former King Jason LaBarbera to get the start with Mike Smith out with a lower-body injury.
Likely Coyotes lines:
Sullivan-Vermette-Doan
Boedker-Hanzal-Vrbata
Korpikoski-Gordon-Moss
Bissonnette-Bolduc-Chipchura
Ekman-Larsson-Michalek
Yandle-Morris
Schlemko-Stone
Possible scratches: Johnson and Rundblad.
Notes:
Raffi Torres is serving the fifth game of his remaining eight-game suspension.
Injury update: Rusty Klesa (lower-body injury), Mike Smith (lower-body injury) and Matthew Lombardi (upper-body injury).
Sad about Matthew Lombardi. No word officially yet but it doesn’t appear good at all. Concussions suck.
http://kingsnewsdaily.com/coyotes-reacquired-forward-lombardi-wont-play-against-kings-out-indefinitely/
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I give a lot of credit to Tippett, you look at the roster and wonder how they win a game, then they win the division.
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KC23 Reply:
January 26th, 2013 at 3:17 pm
@Pesus, Yeah, Tippett has to be a genius. His teams on paper look laughable, but they always seem to be in the thick of it. I doubt he’ll be able to hide the teams problems this year though, just no depth and very little offensive skill. Kings should dominate tonight.
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Funny how much I like when Labs starts now… Last season we broke the games-without-scoring-three-goals streak against him, only game I was able to attend last year too.
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WOW. This team has fallen on hard times.
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