WHAT TO WATCH
The Blues are 10-2-0 on the road this season and are a perfect 4-0 on their current six-game West Coast road trip. St. Louis became the first team to reach 10 road wins this season, and did it in the fewest games in history to record 10 wins. The previous team record was 10 road wins in 15 games, which was achieved in three seasons.
Oskar Sundqvist did not play in the third period on Friday. He left for the locker room late in the second period. Blues Head Coach Craig Berube didn't have an update after the game but was hopeful Sundqvist can play Saturday.
THE SERIES SO FAR
Jan. 23: Blues 4, Kings 2
Torey Krug scored his first goal as a Blue to open the scoring, and Vince Dunn, David Perron and Jaden Schwartz also scored to lift the Blues to a 4-2 win at Enterprise Center.
Jan. 24: Kings 6, Blues 3
Anze Kopitar had a goal and two assists in a 6-3 win for the Kings at Enterprise Center. It was the Kings first road win of the season. Brayden Schenn scored two goals, Jordan Kyrou had two assists and Ville Husso made 29 saves in his first NHL start.
Feb. 22: Kings 3, Blues 0
Jonathan Quick made 31 saves to record his second shutout in three starts in a 3-0 win against the Blues at Enterprise Center. The victory was Los Angeles' fifth straight. The Blues fell to 1-4-1 in their last six home games and were shutout for the third time this season.
Feb. 24: Kings 2, Blues 1
Oskar Sundqvist ended a Blues' goal-less streak of 139 minutes and 33 seconds when he scored with 1:46 left in regulation, but the Blues still fell 2-1 to the Kings at Enterprise Center. The win was LA's sixth straight, tying them with the Tampa Bay Lightning for the longest win streak of the season at the time.
March 5: Blues 3, Kings 2 (OT)
David Perron scored two goals, including the game-tying goal with 44 seconds left in the third period with the goalie pulled, and Mike Hoffman buried the game winner just 90 seconds into overtime to lift the Blues to a dramatic 3-2 win. Ville Husso made 28 saves in helping the Blues to their fourth consecutive win.
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles will try to end its four-game slide when the Kings play St. Louis.
The Kings are 9-8-5 against the rest of their division. Los Angeles has given up 12 power-play goals, killing 82.9% of opponent chances.
The Blues are 14-8-2 against the rest of their division. St. Louis is eighth in the Nhl averaging 5.5 assists per game, led by David Perron with 0.7.
The teams meet for the second straight game.
TOP PERFORMERS: Anze Kopitar has 25 total points for the Kings, four goals and 21 assists. Dustin Brown has six goals over the last 10 games for Los Angeles.
Perron leads the Blues with 25 points, scoring nine goals and collecting 16 assists. Zach Sanford has six goals and two assists over the last 10 games for St. Louis.
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 6-2-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.5 assists, three penalties and six penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game with a .931 save percentage.
Blues: 6-4-0, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.4 assists, 2.8 penalties and 5.8 penalty minutes while allowing three goals per game with an .899 save percentage.
INJURIES: Kings: Jaret Anderson-Dolan: out (upper body).
Blues: Colton Parayko: day to day (upper body), Carl Gunnarsson: out for season (lower body), Jaden Schwartz: day to day (upper body), Robert Thomas: out (thumb), Barbashev out (lower body), De La Rose out (lower body), Bozak (upper body)
not listing Tarasenko since he might play tonight. No news on Sundqvist yet.
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Good start, and good period overall for The Blues. Nice to see Tarasenko out on the ice, and hitting opponents even with his bad shoulder, with no bad effect (not even a wince!).
Even more disappointing. The Blues didn't even get a good shot off in OT. But I did like that Tarasenko beat his man and drove the net, The following Blue (Schenn?) might have gotten the rebound with a lucky bounce.
MIO, missing Sunny and Schwartz at the same time is a big issu
Fans (the generic type) don't realize how important Schwartz and Sundqvist are to the Blues lineup. With Sunny and on Schwartz, Sunny covers. With Schwartz and no Sunny, Schwartz covers. With both out - who is the center who does what Sunny does at both ends of the ice. He was painfully evident in both zones and on the PP prior to this last one. We all know what Schwartz brings. IMO, there isn't a current forward depth wise to replace either of them and it showed tonight.
What freaked me out is Panger early in the 2nd saying the Blues were outplaying the Kings when the SOGs were 2-1 in the Kings favor..,. I get the Blues started the 2nd with strong possession, but the Blues weren't getting pucks to the net at all.....
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disappointing
looked like the blues stopped playing halfway through the game
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