Game 5 Preview: Los Angeles vs Colorado

Los Angeles Kings (1-3-0) vs Colorado Avalanche (2-2-0)
Sunday, October 18, 2015, 7:00 p.m. PT
Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA
Referees: #37 Kyle Rehman, #20 Tim Peel
Linesmen: #58 Ryan Gibbons, #82 Ryan Galloway
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Los Angeles Projected Starting Goaltender – Jonathan Quick
2015-16: 4 GP (4 GS) / 1-3-0 record / 2.99 GAA / .886 Sv% / 0 SHO
Career vs Colorado: 18 (18) / 12-4-1 / 2.32 / .910 / 2
Last Game vs Colorado: 4/4/15 / 60 MP / 9-10 shots / 3-1 W
2015-16, Home: 4 (4) / 1-3-0 / 2.99 / .886 / 0

Colorado Projected Starting Goaltender – Reto Berra
2015-16: 2 GP (1 GS) / 1-0-0 record / 0.00 GAA / 1.00 Sv% / 1 SHO
Career vs Los Angeles: 1 (0) / 0-0-0 / 2.78 / .909 / 0
Last Game vs Los Angeles: 3/10/15 / 43 MP / 20-22 shots / 2-5 L
2015-16, Away: 1 (1) / 1-0-0 / 0.00 / 1.000 / 1

2014-15 Los Angeles Leaders
Total Points: Tyler Toffoli (2-0=2), Jeff Carter (0-2=2)
Goals: Tyler Toffoli (2-0=2)
Assists: Jeff Carter (0-2=2)
Plus/Minus: Matt Greene (0; 0-0=0), Derek Forbort (0; 0-0=0)
Penalty Minutes: Andy Andreoff (12; 0-0=0)
Time On Ice: Drew Doughty (27:45; 0-1=1)
Corsi-For Percentage: Derek Forbort (72.2%; 0-0=0)

2014-15 Colorado Leaders
Total Points: Gabriel Landeskog (4-2=6), Nathan MacKinnon (2-4=6)
Goals: Gabriel Landeskog (4-2=6), John Mitchell (4-0=4)
Assists: Francois Beauchemin (0-5=5)
Plus/Minus: Four players tied with +2 rating
Penalty Minutes: Cody McLeod (11; 0-1=1)
Time On Ice: Francois Beauchemin (21:59); 0-5=5)
Corsi-For Percentage: Mikhail Grigorenko (68.8%; 0-1=1)

Rankings and Statistics
Goals/Game: LAK – 29 / 1.00; COL – 2 / 3.75
Goals Against/Game: LAK – 25 / 3.25; COL – 27 / 3.50
Power Play: LAK – 27 / 5.9%; COL – 1 / 41.7%
Penalty Kill: LAK – t-8 / 85.0%; COL – 10 / 84.6%
Shots/Game: LAK – 22 / 28.3; COL – 29 / 24.5
Shots Against/Game: LAK – t-6 / 26.5; COL – t-19 / 30.8
Faceoffs: LAK – 11 / 50.8%; COL – 25 / 47.8%
Save Percentage: LAK – 27 / .877; COL – 25 / .886
Corsi-For Percentage: LAK – 1 / 58.8%; COL – 30 / 39.0%

Los Angeles Projected Lines

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

Brayden McNabb – Drew Doughty
Jake Muzzin – Alec Martinez
Derek Forbort – Christian Ehrhoff

Jonathan Quick
Jhonas Enroth

Notes and milestones: Los Angeles is 63-47-12 all-time against the Colorado franchise, which includes a home mark of 36-18-8. The Kings have won five straight games against the Avalanche, have points in eight consecutive games in the series (7-0-1) and haven’t lost in regulation to Colorado since a 3-1 setback in Denver on January 22, 2013. These teams will also meet on January 4 at Pepsi Center and January 27 at Staples Center. … Los Angeles is 1-0-0 against the Central Division and 1-3-0 against the Western Conference. … Drew Doughty leads all NHL skaters with an average of 27:45 of ice time per game, while Anze Kopitar leads all league forwards with an ice time average of 22:27. … With 548 career wins, Darryl Sutter is one win behind Marc Crawford for 14th place on the NHL’s all-time wins list. … Jordan Nolan is expected to play in his 199th career game tonight. … Jeff Carter has 12 goals and 15 points in 14 career games against Colorado. … Anze Kopitar has 13 goals and 34 points in 33 career games against Colorado.

Colorado Projected Lines

Blake Comeau – Matt Duchene – Jarome Iginla
Gabriel Landeskog – Nathan MacKinnon – Alex Tanguay
Mikko Rantanen – Carl Soderberg – Borna Rendulic
Cody McLeod – John Mitchell – Jack Skille

Francois Beauchemin – Erik Johnson
Nikita Zadorov – Nate Guenin,
Brad Stuart – Nick Holden

Reto Berra
Semyon Varlamov

Notes and milestones: Lines via NHL.com … Colorado will be without defenseman Tyson Barrie, who will serve the first game of a three-game suspension for charging and interference. … Reto Berra has posted shutouts in each of his last two starts, dating back to last season. Over his last three appearances, he has stopped all 81 shots faced. Dating back to last season, his shutout streak is 189:24. … Since moving to Denver, Colorado is 33-36-9 against Los Angeles. … John Mitchell has a goal in each of the Avs’ first four games. He is the first player in the Colorado history of the organization to score in the first four games of the season and third player overall (Michel Goulet – 1983-84; Mats Sundin – 1992-93). Sundin scored in each of the Quebec Nordiques first five games in 1992-93. … With 199 career points (84-115=199), Gabriel Landeskog is one point shy of 200. … With 591 career goals, Jarome Iginla ranks 19th on the NHL’s all-time list. He trails 18th-place Jari Kurri (601) by 10 goals. Only Jaromir Jagr (726 goals) has scored more goals amongst active players.