The Kings will suit up for their second-to-last home game of the regular season tonight against one of their long-time rivals, the Edmonton Oilers.
Each team has featured a plethora of former players from the other side over the years – and names like Jarret Stoll, Matt Greene, Dustin Penner, Ryan Smyth and Eric Belanger are keeping the tradition alive. Tonight the Oilers will also have a former Kings prospect on the blueline, as they recalled defenseman Colten Teubert over the weekend. You may remember, he made his NHL debut during Edmonton’s only other visit to LA earlier this season.
Prior to the two team’s facing off last Friday in Canada, Penner stopped by MayorsManor to share some thoughts about playing his old team. You can read those comments here. He also joined us on the one-year anniversary of his trade to LA (here) back in February.
As for tonight, we’ll host our usual First Goal Contest – giving you a chance to win two free tickets to Thursday’s regular season finale at Staples Center. Entering is easy, simply leave a comment below with the LA player you think will score first vs. the Oilers. All correct answers will be pooled together and one random winner will be awarded the tickets.
To help you with your selection, the following stats may come in handy…
– Dustin Brown has 12 goals in 27 career games vs Edmonton
– Anze Kopitar has 7 goals in 21 games
– Justin Williams has 2 goals in 16 games
– Mike Richards has 1 goals in 8 games
– Stoll has 4 goals in 12 games
– Brad Richardson has 3 goals in 28 games
– Drew Doughty has 5 goal in 15 games
Of course, feel free to take any of the other Kings players – i.e. Colin Fraser, Jordan Nolan, Willie Mitchell, etc.. Just remember that Kevin Westgarth is scheduled to be a healthy scratch again and the status of Davis Drewiske could be a game-time decision. He’s likely going to get one more start before the end of the season and when he does, the defenseman he replaces in the line-up will most likely be Alec Martinez.
Good luck!
Note: pre-game interviews with Kopitar and Richardson can be found here and here.
williams
Williams
Brown
Slava Voynov
Greener
GO KINGS GO!!
Penner
ha-that’s awesome!
Brown
Kopitar!
Brown
Dustin Brown!
The one and only #11 Anze Kopitar
Brown
Stoll
King!
I’m going with Jarret Stoll. He has to score eventually, right?
Richards
Brown
Kopitar
richardson
Richardson
voynov! :p
Williams! : – ) #GOKINGSGO!!!!!!
Pennercakes!
Doughty
Penner
Kopitar
Clifford
Stoll
Richards!!!!!
Cliffy
King
Dwight King, dammit!
Kopitar
Williams
Kopitar….
Nolan
Richards
King
Trevor Lewis.
kopitar
Dustin Brown
CARTER
First goal Williams! Go Kings Go!!
Brown.
Martinez
Scuderi… Go Kings Go… Going for the dark horse..
Brownie!
Mike Richards!
Brown
Alec Martinez on the PP.
Kopitar
Dustin Brown
Voynov
Brown
Anze Kopitar!
Cliffy!!!GKG!!!!!
Kopitar!! GKG
Nolan??
Clifford!
Williams!!
Doughty!!!!
i want to say penner… but im going with Richards..
Richardson
Fraser
Penner
Dwight King!
Richards
Penner.
Gotta be Brownie
Brown!
Dwight King
CLIFFORDDDDDD
J-DUB! LET’S GO #14, GKG!
Kopitar, per usual
Voynov!
Nolan.. Why not..
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#26 VV voynov first goal
Richardson
Greene
Richards
Jordan Nolan
Richards!
BROWN…. GKG
Mike Richards, afterwards he will continue to not wear an L.A. hat like a scrub.
Brown
King
KOPITAR
Martinez
Voynov will score the first goal for the lakings
Martinez
Lewis
Dustin Brown!!:)
Martinez
Clifford…we believe!! GKG!!!!!!
Williams
Voynov
Justin Williams
NOLAN
Kopitar
Brownie
Richards
Alec Martinez
Brown
Brad Richardson
Dustin brown
MIKE RICHARDS … rebound from dwight king
Dwight king
Lewis
Voynov
Congrats – you were the winner of the First Goal Contest. Please check your email for more info.
Mitchell
Fraser
Brown
Thank you to all who played. The winner was identified above. If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry – we’ll have another contest on Thursday night. Try again!