What you need to know ahead of the Kings' game against the Vegas Golden Knights:
When: Wednesday, October 30th at 7:00 PM PST
Where: Crypto.com Arena - Los Angeles, CA
Watch: TNT, truTV, max
Listen: ESPN LA APP
Records:
Kings: 5 - 3 - 2
Golden Knights: 7 - 2 - 1
Kings Team Stats:
Power Play: 13.2% (29th)
Penalty Kill: 76.7% (21st)
Faceoff Win Percentage: 47.3% (26th)
GF/GP: 3.00 (19th)
GA/GP: 3.30 (19th)
Golden Knights Team Stats:
Power Play: 33.3% (4th)
Penalty Kill: 77.3% (19th)
Faceoff Win Percentage: 54.3% (6th)
GF/GP: 4.70 (1st)
GA/GP: 2.80 (7th)
Kings Notes:
- Tonight’s matchup is the second game of the Kings’ second set of back-to-back games this season (4-2 L at SJS on Oct. 29). Last year, the Kings went 14-7-3 in back-to-back contests (10-1-1 in first game, 4-6-2 in second game).
- The Kings have scored three goals or more in each of their past five home games against the Golden Knights, dating back to Oct. 14, 2021.
- Only Seattle (10G), Philadelphia (8G) and Calgary (8G) have more cumulative goals from their defensemen than the Kings’ 7 so far this season.
- Anze Kopitar (3-6=9) leads the Kings in scoring 10 games into the 2024-25 campaign courtesy of his 798th career assist Saturday afternoon against the Utah Hockey Club. With his helper on Saturday, Kopitar surpassed Jari Kurri for sole possession of the 35th-most assists in NHL history.
- The captain sits two shy from becoming the fourth active skater to reach the 800-assist plateau: a list occupied by Sidney Crosby (1,013), Patrick Kane (818) and Evgeni Malkin (809). He can also become the sixth European-born skater in NHL history to reach the milestone, after Jaromir Jagr (1,155), Stan Mikita (926), Nicklas Lidstrom (878), Henrik Sedin (830) and Malkin.
- Defenseman Joel Edmundson returns to Crypto.com Arena for the first time since notching his first two goals as a member of the LA Kings last Saturday against Utah HC as part of his first career multi-goal game (2-0=2). By doing so, Edmundson (31 years, 120 days) became the second oldest Kings defenseman at the time of his first career multi-goal game behind Jaroslav Modry (31 years, 248 days on Nov. 2, 2002), per NHL PR.
- Edmundson also became the 10th different blueliner in team history whose first franchise goal came in a multi-goal performance, and just the fifth to do so in the last 30 years. Among franchise skaters overall, Edmundson is the 35th different Kings skater overall to record such feat. He is also the 20th different player in team history who first two goals were also part of their first career multi-goal game.
Golden Knights Notes:
- While the Golden Knights are 7-0-0 on home ice, they are winless in three road games this season with an 0-2-1 record.
- The Golden Knights defeated the Los Angeles Kings on Oct. 22 at T-Mobile Arena, 6-1, in their first meeting of the season. Hertl led the team with four points (2-2=4) on the night, tying a single-game career high. Stone, Pavel Dorofeyev, Alexander Holtz, and Barbashev all tallied a goal each while Ilya Samsonov had 32 saves.
- Mark Stone is tied for the NHL lead in points with Kirill Kaprizov with 18 points (5G, 13A). Stone was named the NHL's first star of the week on Monday.
- Keegan Kolesar scored two goals against the Calgary Flames on Monday night, Oct. 28th to record his first career multi-goal game.
Players to Watch:
Kings: Darcy Kuemper, who in 17 career games played against the Golden Knights has posted a 2.31 goals-against-average (GAA) and a .930 save percentage (SV%). No other goaltender has posted a higher SV% or a lower GAA against the franchise (min. 10 GP).
Golden Knights: Tomas Hertl, who sits two points shy of 500 (224-274=498). Hertl has seven points (3-4=7) in his last four games.
