Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Los Angeles Kings (11-6-1, 23 points) and the New York Islanders (7-9-3, 17 points) hit the ice live from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island, N.Y. in the first of two meetings between these two teams this season. The game can be live stream here. Los Angeles fans can hear all the action by adjusting their radios to KTLK-AM 1150 while New York fans can do the same on WRHU 88.7 FM.
Los Angeles is without goaltender Jonathan Quick after he left with a lower-body injury on Tuesday night in the team's game against the Buffalo Sabres. Ben Scrivens came in after Quick suffered the injury in overtime, and allowed two goals in the shootout as the Kings lost to the NHL-worst Buffalo Sabres 3-2.
"We had a good chance to win," coach Daryl Sutter told the media Wednesday, according to NHL.com. "We score a second goal [after taking an early 1-0 lead], we don't win."
Scrivens, who is 1-1-1 with a 1.89 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage, is likely to get the start tonight.
New York has a goaltending situation of its own as 23-year-old Kevin Poulin (2-4-0, 2.35 GAA, .920 save percentage) has played in back-to-back games after No.1 backstop Evgeni Nabokov (5-5-3, 3.24, .894) has struggled. Poulin manned the crease for the Islanders as the team topped the Nashville Predators 3-1 at home on Tuesday.
"Right now I'm playing with confidence," Poulin said via NHL.com. "I've been playing a lot lately the past week and I feel more comfortable out there. I am seeing the puck pretty well."
Islanders top-scorer (8-14-22) and captain John Tavares (hip) and new import Thomas Vanek (upper-body) may be sidelined tonight. Tavares and Vanek are first and fourth on the team in scoring, separated by Frans Nielsen (team-high nine goals, 12 assists, 21 points) and Kyle Okposo (six goals, 14 assists, 20 points). Nielsen has four points in New York's past three games.
Mike Richards is on a hot streak for the Kings having netted three goals and six assists during a five-game point streak to give him a total of five goals and 12 assists for 17 points while Anze Kopitar also has 17 points off of four tallies and 13 helpers, and Justin Williams has lit the lamp seven times and has notched six assists for 13 points.
Los Angeles will look to carry on without their starting goaltender while New York looks to overcome some injuries of its own when the lights come on at the Nassau Coliseum tonight.
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