Game 7 Preview: Los Angeles at Anaheim

(3) Los Angeles Kings (7-6) at (1) Anaheim Ducks (7-5)
Friday, May 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m. PT
Honda Center, Anaheim, CA
Referees: #13 Dan O’Halloran, #4 Wes McCauley
Linesmen: #75 Derek Amell, #95 Jonny Murray
NBCSN, TSN, KEIB 1150 AM

Los Angeles Projected Starting Goaltender – Jonathan Quick
2013-14 Playoffs: 13 GP (13 GS) / 7-6 record / 2.78 GAA / .914 Sv% / 1 SHO
Career, Playoffs: 63 (63) / 36-27 / 2.17 / .926 / 8
2013-14 Playoffs, Away: 7 (7) / 4-3 / 2.93 / .915 / 1

Anaheim Projected Starting Goaltender – John Gibson
2013-14 Playoffs: 3 GP (3 GS) / 2-1 record / 1.68 GAA / .946 Sv% / 1 SHO
Career, Playoffs: 3 (3) / 2-1 / 1.68 / .946 / 1
2013-14 Playoffs, Home: 1 (1) / 1-0 / 3.00 / .929 / 0

2013-14 Los Angeles Leaders
Total Points: Anze Kopitar (4-13=17)
Goals: Marian Gaborik (8-5=13)
Assists: Anze Kopitar (4-13=17)
Plus/Minus: Anze Kopitar (+7; 4-13=17), Justin Williams (+7; 4-5=9)
Penalty Minutes: Kyle Clifford (37; 0-1=1)
Time On Ice: Drew Doughty (27:22; 1-7=8)

2013-14 Anaheim Leaders
Total Points: Ryan Getzlaf (4-10=14)
Goals: Devante Smith-Pelly (5-0=5)
Assists: Ryan Getzlaf (4-10=14)
Plus/Minus: Cam Fowler (+4; 0-4=4)
Penalty Minutes: Patrick Maroon (38; 2-5=7)
Time On Ice: Francois Beauchemin (24:15; 0-4=4)

Rankings and Statistics
Goals/Game: LAK – t-4 / 3.00; ANA – 8 / 2.75
Goals Against/Game: LAK – 7 / 2.69; ANA – 6 / 2.58
Power Play: LAK – 7 / 20.9%; ANA – 6 / 25.5%
Penalty Kill: LAK – 8 / 83.0%; ANA – 3 / 87.5%
Shots/Game: LAK – 6 / 30.8; ANA – 13 / 26.8
Shots Against/Game: LAK – 8 / 30.9; ANA – 6 / 29.7
Faceoffs: LAK – 4 / 52.1%; ANA – 12 / 47.1%
Save Percentage: LAK – t-6 / .913; ANA – t-6 / .913

Los Angeles Projected Lines

Marian Gaborik – Anze Kopitar – Dustin Brown
Tanner Pearson – Jeff Carter – Tyler Toffoli
Trevor Lewis – Jarret Stoll – Justin Williams
Dwight King – Mike Richards – Kyle Clifford

Jake Muzzin – Drew Doughty
Jeff Schultz – Slava Voynov
Alec Martinez – Matt Greene

Jonathan Quick
Martin Jones

Level of confidence in projected lines: A-. There shouldn’t be any surprises tonight. Robyn Regehr has not resumed skating and Darryl Sutter said that Willie Mitchell is not an option. The Kings are expected to ice the same lineup as the one that beat the Ducks 2-1 in Game 6.

Notes and milestones: The Kings are 101-132 all-time in the playoffs, a record that includes a road mark of 44-78. … Los Angeles is 7-2 when facing elimination since 2011 and 20-20 all-time when facing elimination. The Kings are 5-0 in elimination games this postseason; only five other teams have won at least five elimination games in a single postseason (NYI/1975/8, 1987/NYI/5, 1994/VAN/5, 2003/MIN/6 and MTL/2010/5). … No team in NHL history has won consecutive series in a single postseason while losing three straight games in each series. … This is the first time in franchise history that Los Angeles will play two Game 7s in one playoff year. The Kings are 5-4 all-time in Game 7s. … The other four times Los Angeles overcame a 2-3 deficit to win a best-of-seven series: 1969 vs Oakland, 1989 vs Edmonton, 1993 vs Toronto and 2014 vs San Jose. … The Kings are 9-for-39 on the power play (23.1%) in the last 11 games. … Los Angeles is playing its 52nd playoff game since 2012 tonight and is 7-1 in its last eight playoff series. … In 32 regular season and playoff games with the Kings, Marian Gaborik has 29 points (13-16=29). … Anze Kopitar has points in 12 of 13 playoff games (4-13=17). Dating back to the regular season, he has points in 15 of the last 16 games. Kopitar’s 51 career playoff points (57 GP; 17-34=51) rank fourth in club history behind Wayne Gretzky (60 GP; 29-65=94), Luc Robitaille (94 GP; 41-48=89) and Dave Taylor (92 GP; 26-33=59). … Justin Williams has nine points (4-5=9) in the last 10 games. He is 5-0 all-time in Game 7s, having recorded 10 points on five goals and five assists. … Gaborik and Mike Richards are also 5-0 in Game 7s. … Jeff Carter has been limited to either one shot or no shots seven times in the last nine games.

Anaheim Projected Lines

Devante Smith-Pelly – Ryan Getzlaf – Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano – Saku Koivu – Jakob Silfverberg
Daniel Winnik – Mathieu Perreault – Teemu Selanne
Patrick Maroon – Nick Bonino – Kyle Palmieri

Cam Fowler – Ben Lovejoy
Hampus Lindholm – Francois Beauchemin
Bryan Allen – Sami Vatanen

John Gibson
Jonas Hiller

Notes and milestones: The Ducks are 2-3 in previous Game 7s, with two taking place at the Honda Center. Anaheim fell 3-2 to Detroit in the first round in 2014 and defeated Phoenix 3-0 in the first round in 1997. … Teemu Selanne (2-1=3; 5 GP) and Saku Koivu (0-3=3; 3 GP) lead the Ducks with the most points in previous Game 7s. … With 14 points, Ryan Getzlaf (4-10=14) is tied with Zach Parise and Evgeni Malkin for the second most points in postseason play. Anze Kopitar leads all skaters with 17 points. … Getzlaf is Anaheim’s all-time playoff scoring leader with 73 points (25-48=63) in 80 games.… In six career NHL games (three regular season, three playoffs), John Gibson is 5-1-0 with a 1.50 goals-against average and .950 save percentage. … Teemu Selanne (35-34=69) will play his 96th career playoff game tonight. He finished his regular season career with 119 points (52-67=119) in 105 career games against Los Angeles.