Anaheim matchup

The Ducks will have a slightly different look tonight, since Teemu Selanne is out with the broken jaw he suffered last night. How does that change things for the Kings? Probably not much. Terry Murray still plans to have his Handzus-centered line match up against the line centered by Ryan Getzlaf, but Murray indicated that Randy Carlyle’s decisions might change that…

MURRAY: “The way the line is set up there, with Zeus, Fro and Brownie, it’s a pretty good bulky line to match up against another big line like Getzlaf. That’s the way I’ll start. I’ll see how things go, obviously. It changes, and I’ll see how Randy Carlyle changes. He likes to get things going as the puck hits the ice, making changes on the fly. I will not get Kopi off the ice in that matchup. I don’t mind it. He has played against the top lines a lot in the last year and a half. I’ll stay with that. So if he wants to get away from Zeus or away from Kopitar, that’s a choice that obviously he can make. I’m not going to change on the fly to match him.”

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