Todd McLellan, on whether he liked the LA Kings’ “control” of the game despite Vegas’ shot surplus:
Yeah, I don’t know if I agree with you when it comes to control. I thought they controlled the second and third periods. This is pretty reminiscent to the game we played earlier in the year here when we got off to a lead and they poured it on and we had trouble keeping up with them. We scratch, we clawed, we got tremendous goaltending, outstanding goaltending. Some really good nights from some key people, players you think you’d get good nights from – I’m thinking Kopi and his line. And then there are some other players in our group that are getting exposed a little bit – which is fine. We’re finding out about them, but they’ve got to pick it up a little bit. Can’t rely on one or two lines, so mixed emotions. Really happy about the win, the streak, to win in this building. Happy for the goaltender. Disappointed in some individuals, though.
McLellan, on any reasons behind LA’s success at T-Mobile Arena and on back-to-backs:
No. I’m not even aware of the past, the back-to-back things that happen for every team in the league. I can’t explain why. We found tonight and certainly early in the year, we had some opportunistic goal scorers, guys that took advantage of situations where they got to put the pucks in the net. Scoring first’s in this building’s huge. We did that in both games. But going back, six games in back-to-backs, I have no idea about any of that.
McLellan, on the defense and goaltending success:
Well, we’ve played a pretty good team game. We’ve got outstanding goaltending, penalty killing’s been really good, so that’s allowed us to prevent goals. We’ve been in our end a little bit, but that’s going to happen to our team. I thought we checked better against Jersey and teams we played prior tonight. But again, this is a pretty damn good team here in Vegas, and they do that to a lot of elite teams and we weathered the storm, we’re going to leave with a win, we’ll relish it and we’ll get back to work and try to improve for the Leafs later on in the week.
Anze Kopitar, on facing Alec Martinez:
I mean, yeah, it’s a little weird to see him in warm-ups, but once the puck drops, you just get going and you just play the game.
Drew Doughty, on whether it was strange facing Alec Martinez:
No, honestly, I didn’t even say a word to him today. I don’t know – I might go see him after this if he’s around. It’s whatever, we’re used to it, it’s hockey. I’ve played against some of my best friends before. Obviously I’ve played with Marty for along time, so I’m used to this stuff.
Subject To Change
FORWARDS
Kings Injuries
Jeff Carter
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Maple Leafs Probable Lineup
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FORWARDS
Former Kings
Jack Campbell
Kyle Clifford
Jake Muzzin
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PLAYER STATS
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How many points will be scored by ALL $10milliion+ players in this game? (Auston Matthews, John Tavares, Mitch Marner, Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty)
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30 points
LeftyKing
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29 points
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28 points
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27 points
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26 points
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25 points
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24 points
23 points
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hornman
waynet
22 points
ChilledAgua
jammer06
JWR
MaxwellSmart
Puckmaster
21 points
AngelEyes
empire
Rusty
20 points
Kurisu
19 points
pray4mojo
18 points
Nyssa42
Rogie-Vachon
VCRW
17 points
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John a90
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16 points
Greg33
KHenry14
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vindogla
15 points
Craig22929
Dr. Tran
Ice24
rozzy
14 points
Butch19
Hockey53
Krussadams
13 points
TooCool
12 points
CIrvine
GALLY
11 points
DRGinLBC
Sevenhole
10 points
CUP4LA
NotherCastle
9 points
JayWells24
8 points
Joe Lavigueur
7 points
emsomaso
6 points
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Ragbone
Rawley19
5 points
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3 points
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