Game 21 Preview: Los Angeles at Florida

Los Angeles Kings (12-8-0) at Florida Panthers (8-8-4)
Monday, November 23, 2015, 4:30 p.m. PT
BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL
Referees: #8 Dave Jackson, #18 Greg Kimmerly
Linesmen: #66 Darren Gibbs, #55 Shane Heyer
Fox Sports West, KABC 790 AM, I Heart Radio

Los Angeles Projected Starting Goaltender – Jonathan Quick
2015-16: 16 GP (16 GS) / 9-7-0 record / 2.47 GAA / .910 Sv% / 1 SHO
Career vs Florida: 8 (8) / 6-2-0 / 1.81 / .931 / 1
Last Game vs Florida: 11/7/15 / 60 MP / 18-19 shots / 4-1 W
2015-16, Away: 5 (5) /3-2-0 / 2.75 / .906 / 0

Florida Projected Starting Goaltender – Al Montoya
2015-16: 4 GP (4 GS) / 2-1-1 record / 2.22 GAA / .922 Sv% / 0 SHO
Career vs Los Angeles: 5 (3) / 2-1-0 / 2.27 / .913 / 1
Last Game vs Los Angeles: 11/18/14 / 20 MP / 1-2 shots / 2-5 L (ND)
2015-16, Home: 1 (1) / 0-0-1 / 1.88 / .926 / 0

2015-16 Los Angeles Leaders
Total Points: Jeff Carter (9-10=19)
Goals: Tyler Toffoli (10-8=18)
Assists: Jeff Carter (9-10=19), Drew Doughty (2-10=12)
Plus/Minus: Jeff Carter (+12; 9-10=19)
Penalty Minutes: Andy Andreoff (39; 1-0=1)
Time On Ice: Drew Doughty (26:45; 2-10=12)
Corsi-For Percentage: Nick Shore (65.1%; 2-0=2)

2015-16 Florida Leaders
Total Points: Jaromir Jagr (8-8=16)
Goals: Jaromir Jagr (8-8=16)
Assists: Jonathan Huberdeau (1-10=11)
Plus/Minus: Derek MacKenzie (+6; 1-4=5)
Penalty Minutes: Shawn Thornton (30; 0-0=0)
Time On Ice: Brian Campbell (21:04; 1-7=8)
Corsi-For Percentage: Aaron Ekblad (57.4%; 4-5=9)

Rankings and Statistics
Goals/Game: LAK – t-19 / 2.50; FLA – 18 / 2.65
Goals Against/Game: LAK – 4 / 2.25; FLA – 15 / 2.60
Power Play: LAK – t-10 / 20.6%; FLA – 5 / 22.2%
Penalty Kill: LAK – 5 / 84.6%; FLA – 27 / 75.0%
Shots/Game: LAK – 1 / 31.7; FLA – t-23 / 28.6
Shots Against/Game: LAK – 7 / 28.4; FLA – t-27 / 31.8
Faceoffs: LAK – 23 / 48.6%; FLA – 19/ 49.6%
Save Percentage: LAK – t-4 / .922; FLA – 9 / .918
Corsi-For Percentage: LAK – 1 / 56.6%; FLA – 27 / 47.7%

Los Angeles Projected Lines

Tanner Pearson – Anze Kopitar – Marian Gaborik
Milan Lucic – Jeff Carter – Tyler Toffoli
Dustin Brown – Nick Shore – Trevor Lewis
Kyle Clifford – Andy Andreoff – Jordan Nolan

Brayden McNabb – Drew Doughty
Jake Muzzin – Alec Martinez
Christian Ehrhoff – Jamie McBain

Jonathan Quick
Jhonas Enroth

Notes and milestones: Los Angeles is 16-10-3 all-time against Florida, a record that includes a road mark of 4-6-3. The Kings are 1-0-0 against the Panthers in 2015-16, having won 4-1 at Staples Center on November 7. Tonight’s game concludes the regular season series. … Los Angeles is 4-3-0 against the Eastern Conference and 1-1-0 against the Atlantic Division. … The Kings have scored at least two goals in 17 consecutive games. … After a stretch of 15 consecutive successful penalty kills, the Los Angeles is 12-for-16 while shorthanded on the current road trip. The Kings have been shorthanded at least three times in nine consecutive games. … With 279 career points (68-211=279), Drew Doughty is tied with Lubomir Visnovsky (70-209=279) for fourth place on the club’s all-time list of points by a defenseman. … Doughty has taken a minor penalty in seven consecutive games. He ranks fourth in the league with an ice time average of 26:45 per game. … Marian Gaborik is expected to play his 900th career game. … Anze Kopitar has 11 points (2-9=11) in 11 career games against Florida.

Florida Projected Lines

Jonathan Huberdeau – Aleksander Barkov – Jaromir Jagr
Jussi Jokinen – Nick Bjugstad – Reilly Smith
Brandon Pirri – Vincent Trocheck – Rocco Grimaldi
Quinton Howden – Derek MacKenzie – Shawn Thornton

Brian Campbell – Aaron Ekblad
Willie Mitchell – Erik Gudbranson
Steven Kampfer – Alex Petrovic

Al Montoya
Roberto Luongo

Notes and milestones: Lines via Alain Poupart of NHL.com … Dmitry Kulikov is expected to miss his fourth straight game with a lower-body injury, while Dave Bolland and Garrett Wilson are expected to be scratched. … Florida is currently 1-1-1 on a five-game homestand and will host the New York Islanders on Friday. … With 730 career goals, Jaromir Jagr is one goal away from tying Marcel Dionne for fourth place on the NHL’s all-time goals list; Brett Hull ranks third all-time with 741 career goals. Jagr is the league’s active leader in games played (1,568), goals (730), assists (1,088), points (1,818), power play goals (206) and power play points (589) and is the league’s all-time leader in game-winning goals (130). … Defenseman Aaron Ekblad has six points (3-3=6) in his last six games. Florida is 6-1-1 when the 19-year-old Ekblad records a point. … The Panthers have six goals in the final four minutes of regulation over their last five games (2-2-1).