Know The Enemy – Devils vs Los Angeles Kings

Posted by on October 25, 2011

A few notes and stats to get you caught up on today’s opponent –
Devils (3-2-1 / 1-1-0 on the road) at Kings (5-1-1 / 3-1-0 at home)


- Game info: 10:30 p.m. ET start at Staples Center. TV: MSG+ RADIO: WFAN 660 AM. LA TV: FS-W (HD) RADIO: KTLK 1150 AM.

- For tickets and ticket price data for this game, click here.

- Johan Hedberg will get the start in net. He is 1-6-0 vs the Kings in his career with a 4.09 GAA.

- Zach Parise centered a line between Ilya Kovalchuk and Nick Palmieri in practice and that is expected to be the top line tonight.

- Jonathan Quick, who has posted three straight shutouts for the Kings, will not start tonight. Jonathan Bernier will be in net.

- Patrik Elias has the most points as a Devil (4-7-11 in 14 games) against the Kings.

- Dainius Zubrus has the most career points (5-10-15 in 17 games) against the Kings.

- This is the second of two meetings between the teams this season. The Devils posted a 2-1 shootout win at home on October 13th.

Projected Lineups:

Devils

Kings

Kovalchuk – Parise – Palmieri
Sykora/Fraser - Elias - Zubrus
Tedenby - Henrique - Clarkson
Pelley - Mills - Janssen

Greene – Larsson
Tallinder - Fayne
Volchenkov – Salvador

Hedberg
Kinkaid

Gagne-Kopitar-Williams
Penner-Richards-Brown
Richardson-Stoll-Moreau
Clifford-Lewis-Hunter

Scuderi-Johnson
Mitchell-Voynov
Martinez-Greene

Bernier
Quick
 Devils Stats  Kings
6 GP 7
3 W 5
2 L 1
1 OT 1
7 P 11
0.583 P% 0.786
1.83 G/G 2.43
2.50 GA/G 1.29
13.0 PP% 25.0
89.3 PK% 87.0
27.8 S/G 26.6
30.5 SA/G 29.4
48.6 FO% 48.6

                                                   2011-2012 Kings

                                    Forwards & Defensemen
# Pos Player GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S%
11 C Anze Kopitar 7 4 6 10 5 0 1 0 0 14 28.6
12 L Simon Gagne 7 3 4 7 6 6 0 0 1 16 18.8
14 R Justin Williams 7 2 5 7 5 0 1 0 0 21 9.5
10 C Mike Richards 7 1 5 6 -1 7 0 0 0 15 6.7
3 D Jack Johnson 7 3 2 5 4 4 2 0 3 14 21.4
23 R Dustin Brown 7 2 2 4 0 6 2 0 1 18 11.1
33 D Willie Mitchell 7 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 8 0.0
28 C Jarret Stoll 7 1 1 2 2 4 0 0 0 10 10.0
7 D Rob Scuderi 7 0 1 1 3 2 0 0 0 9 0.0
2 D Matt Greene 7 0 1 1 1 10 0 0 0 6 0.0
15 C Brad Richardson 7 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0 12 0.0
25 L Dustin Penner 5 0 1 1 2 19 0 0 0 5 0.0
19 R Kevin Westgarth 4 0 1 1 0 19 0 0 0 3 0.0
8 D Drew Doughty 4 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 0 5 0.0
13 L Kyle Clifford 7 1 0 1 -1 5 0 0 0 4 25.0
17 L Ethan Moreau 7 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 0 6 0.0
47 R Trent Hunter 3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
21 L Scott Parse 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
22 C Trevor Lewis 7 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 5 0.0
27 D Alec Martinez 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.0
44 D Davis Drewiske 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
26 D Slava Voynov 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
                                              Goalies
# Goalie GPI GS Min GAA W L OT SO SA GA Sv% G A PIM
32 Jonathan Quick 6 6 370 0.81 5 0 1 3 180 5 .972 0 0 0
45 Jonathan Bernier 1 1 58 4.14 0 1 0 0 26 4 .846 0 0 0

NEW JERSEY Devils vs LOS ANGELES Kings

All-Time regular season record vs Kings:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
26 – 25 – 3 – 1 – 1

Goals for: 186 Goals against: 191

All-Time post season record vs Kings:
N/A

Goals for: Goals against:

Home games vs Kings: 17 – 11 – 1 – 0 – 0

Road games vs Kings: 9 – 14 – 2 – 1 – 1

Last season: 0 – 1
Sat Oct 30 2010 at LA – Los Angeles 3, New Jersey 1

This season: 1 – 0
Thu Oct 13 2011 at NJ – New Jersey 2, Los Angeles 1 (SO)
Tue Oct 25 2011 – NJ at LA

LET’S GO DEVILS!

 

 

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