Who: Los Angeles Kings (6-5-4, 16 points, 5th place Pacific Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (9-4-3, 21 points, 2nd place Metropolitan Division)

How to Watch: Broadcast locally Sportsnet Pittsburgh and Fanduel Sports Network, streaming on ESPN+

Pens’ Path Ahead: After today the Penguins have a few days off to travel to Sweden for a pair of games against Nashville next week starting

Opponent Track: The Kings are 1-2-0 in the month of November, losing the last time out to Florida at home on Thursday. This is the first game of a six-game Eastern road trip for Los Angeles.

Season Series: The Penguins won 4-2 back on October 16th in LA. This will be the final game of the season series.

Hidden Stat: Anze Kopitar has announced his retirement after the season, today will be his final game in Pittsburgh and against the Penguins in general. Kopitar has 25 career points (8G+17A) in 27 games against the Pens.

Getting to know the Kings

Joel Armia – Anze Kopitar – Adrian Kempe

Kevin Fiala – Quinton Byfield – Alex Laferriere

Andrei Kuzmenko – Phillip Danault – Trevor Moore

Warren Foegele – Alex Turcotte – Corey Perry

Mikey Anderson / Drew Doughty

Joel Edmundson / Brandt Clarke

Brian Dumoulin / Cody Ceci

Goalies: Darcy Kuemper and Anton Forsberg

Potential scratches: Sam Helenius, Jeff Mallot, Jacob Moverare

  • The Kings are healthier than the last time the Pens saw them in October now that Kuemper and Kopitar are healthy again.

  • Has Corey Perry found the fountain of youth? The veteran has scored 12, 12, and 19 goals in the last three seasons and already has six in nine games this year.
  • There has been a lot of talk and rumors going back and forth about impending free agent Adrian Kempe. He’s making his case to be the next in the Kyle Connor/Martin Necas/Logan Cooley tier of players in the $10-12 million long-range. Will the Kings ante up, or will he actually make it to free agency?

Bryan Rust – Sidney Crosby – Ben Kindel

Tommy Novak – Evgeni Malkin – Anthony Mantha

Joona Koppanen – Kevin Hayes – Ville Koivunen

Danton Heinen – Blake Lizotte – Connor Dewar

Parker Wotherspoon / Erik Karlsson

Ryan Graves / Connor Clifton

Goalies: Sergei Murashov and Arturs Silovs

Potential Scratches: Philip Tomasino, Matt Dumba, Harrison Brunicke

IR: Filip Hallander, Tristan Jarry, Justin Brazeau, Jack St. Ivany (lower body), Rutger McGroarty (upper body), Joel Blomqvist (lower body), Rickard Rakell (hand), Caleb Jones (lower body, out 6-8 weeks), Noel Acciari

  • Save us, Murashov? Could be the debut of the 21-year old goalie on the back-half of the back-to-back. The Pens could use the energy boost from the exuberant youngster and the natural added extra attention to detail to help out the first timer.