Tonight at 10:30 p.m. ET, the New Jersey Devils (8-8-5, 21 points) and the Los Angeles Kings (15-6-1, 31 points) go head-to-head live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the second and final meeting this season between the two teams. The game can be live streamed here. New Jersey fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action by adjusting their radios to 101.9 FM The Fan while Los Angeles fans can do the same on KTLK-AM 1150.
New Jersey and Los Angeles clashed in the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals, which saw the Kings clinch the franchise's first Stanley Cup championship on the back of Jonathan Quick, but with the goaltender sidelined with a groin injury, it will be Ben Scrivens looking to beat the Devils once again after he shut them out 2-0 in New Jersey last Friday.
The Kings are coming off of a 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday in a game where Scrivens only faced nine shots through the first two periods.
"That's why we're a good team," coach Darryl Sutter told NHL.com. "We don't give up a lot."
Scrivens is 5-1-1 this season with a 1.35 goals-against average and a .949 save percentage and has really stepped up in Quick's absence.
The Devils opened up a three-game trip through California with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday after the Ducks accidentally had a puck go in their own net in the extra frame.
"We'll take it," coach Peter DeBoer said of the fortunate win via NHL.com. "We had a bunch of those go against us in the first 10 games of the season."
Cory Schneider is expected to get the start in net for New Jersey and is 1-5-3 with a 1.98 GAA and a .918 save percentage through nine appearances this year.
Schneider will look to stop a Kings offense that is led by Anze Kopitar, who has 21 points off of six goals and 15 assists while Mike Richards has five tallies and 13 helpers for 18 points and Justin Williams has lit the lamp eight times and added nine assists for 17 points.
For New Jersey, Jaromir Jagr has three goals in his last two games and has eight goals and nine assists for 17 points while Marek Zidlicky has found the back of the net three times and added nine helpers and Patrik Elias has found the twine three times and added seven assists for 10 points.
The Devils look to keep winning on their trip through California while the Kings look to build on a victory over Tampa Bay when the lights come on at the Staples Center tonight in Los Angeles.
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