Tonight at 10:30 p.m. ET, the Tampa Bay Lightning (14-6-0, 28 points) and the Los Angeles Kings (14-6-1, 29 points) faceoff live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the second of two meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. Tampa Bay fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action by adjusting their radios to 970 WFLA while Los Angeles fans can do the same on KTLK-AM 1150.
Tampa Bay has been without superstar Steven Stamkos, who will miss some significant time with a broken tibia and Los Angeles is still without goaltender Jonathan Quick, who is sidelined with a groin injury. Despite the injuries, both teams have been playing great as the Lightning has won six of its last eight games and Los Angeles went 3-0-1 on a road trip through the New York area.
The Eastern-Conference leading Lightning lost their last outing in a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the Phoenix Coyotes and will look to bounce back.
"It's tough. You go down 3-0 and now you're climbing the mountain," coach Jon Cooper said per NHL.com. "[Phoenix goalie Mike Smith] made [every] save he had to and every time we thought we were seizing a little bit of momentum we'd give one up."
Ben Scrivens has filled in nicely for Quick and he posted back-to-back shutouts over the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils this week to lift his record to 4-1-1 with a 1.24 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage.
Scrivens will be opposed by Ben Bishop, who is a sparkling 13-2-0 with a 2.11 GAA and a .927 save percentage.
Tyler Toffoli scored his fourth goal in seven games as the Kings topped the Rangers 1-0 Sunday night.
"That's why we got him here," forward Anze Kopitar said of Toffoli, according to NHL.com. "If he keeps doing that, he's going to stay here for a while. He's not going to leave this locker room."
Kopitar leads the Kings with 19 points off of five goals and 14 assists while Mike Richards has five tallies and 13 helpers for 18 points and Justin Williams has found the back of the net seven times and added eight assists for 15 points.
With Stamkos sidelined, Martin St. Louis is Tampa Bay's leading scorer with eight goals and 12 assists for 20 points while Valtteri Filppula (eight goals, seven assists) and Alex Killorn (six goals, nine assists) each have 15 points.
The Lightning looks for its seventh win in nine games while the Kings will hope to keep getting strong play out of Scrivens when the puck drops at the Staples Center tonight in Los Angeles.
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