Team Records:
Ducks: 9 - 20 - 3 (25 pts)
Kings: 17 - 12 - 5 (39 pts)
Kings Notes:
Anze Kopitar leads all active skaters in points versus Anaheim with 80 (28-52=80) in 83 career games. The next closest active skater behind Kopitar is Chicago's Patrick Kane with 51 points (16-35=51) in 48 career games. Kopitar enters tonight sitting three points shy of tying Mike Modano for the most points against Anaheim in league history.
Pheonix Copley has four wins in five starts this season with a 2.71 goals-against average and .904 save percentage. With his secondary assist on Phillip Danault's first period goal Saturday night versus San Jose, Copley become the 13th different goaltender to record a point this season.
With one more goal, Matt Roy can establish a new career-high of five goals. Prior to this season, his previous career-high was four established in 70 games during the 2019-20 season.
The Kings enter tonight riding a seven-game home power-play goal streak, dating back to Nov. 12. With a power play goal tonight, the Kings can extend their power play home goal streak to eight games; a feat that was last accomplished from Feb. 17, 2007 to March 17, 2007 (11 PPGs).
The LA Kings are 3-0 in shootouts this season.
Ducks Notes:
The Ducks are 4-4-0 against the Pacific Division this season.
The Ducks power play ranks 28th in the NHL (15.9%).
The Ducks penalty kill ranks 31st in the NHL (67.2%).
Who to Watch:
Adrian Kempe, who has four goals in the last five games. Kempe had one goal in his previous 11 games. With this hot hot streak, Kempe now trails Gabriel Vilardi's 13 goals by one for the team lead.
Troy Terry, who leads the Ducks in goals (12), assists (16) and points (28).