© Sergei Belski
The Los Angeles Kings (48-24-9) will host the Calgary Flames (40-27-14) at Crypto.com Arena to close out the regular season for both teams. The Pacific Division rivals find themselves going in direct directions: Los Angeles is set to host Edmonton in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs on April 21st, while Calgary failed to make the playoff cut.
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Last Ten
Los Angeles 8-2-0
Calgary 6-1-3
Top Scorers
LA- Adrian Kempe 35 G 38 A 73 PTS
CAL-Nazeem Kadri 35 G 32 A 65 PTS
Notable
Forward Taylor Ward will make his NHL debut for the Kings tonight.
1st Period
We are underway at Crypto!
Byfield and Fiala go in a 2-on-1 but can’t covert.
Calgary gets some o-zone time and Kadri gets off a wrister that is eaten up by Rittich.
Taylor Ward can’t handle the pass on what could have been a Grade-A scoring chance.
Mikey Andersson enters the zone with and finds Trevor Moore in deep but Vladar makes the save.
BIG SAVE from Vladar on a walk-in by Taylor Ward who was looking for his first NHL goal.
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PENALTY Samuel Helenius goes off two minutes for hooking.
Coleman gets offs a hard wrist shot but Big Save Dave makes the pad save.
LA is back to even-strength.
Calgary outshooting LA 9-4 with about 7 minutes left in the 1st.