- 1 Chicago Blackhawks vs Los Angeles Kings: the Kings arrive a day after winning at Madison Square Garden
- 2 Chicago Blackhawks: 21.4 shots a game and a power play at 8.3%
- 3 Los Angeles Kings: Panarin leads the team with seven goals in ten games
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: Chicago Blackhawks vs Los Angeles Kings
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Chicago Blackhawks vs Los Angeles Kings: the Kings arrive a day after winning at Madison Square Garden 
Eight of the twelve Los Angeles players who recorded a point at Madison Square Garden on Monday night were defensemen. The Kings beat the New York Rangers 6-3, scored three times on the first eight shots James Reimer faced, and chased the 38-year-old from the net before the first intermission of his Rangers debut.
That result matters for Tuesday because of the calendar. Los Angeles finishes a five-game road trip at the United Center on the second night of a back-to-back, with puck drop at 8:00pm ET on Tuesday 27 October, and the Kings have to fly from New York to Chicago in between.
The trip itself has turned their season around. Los Angeles opened 0-4-2, then won 5-2 in Washington, beat the Islanders 3-2 in overtime, lost 3-1 to New Jersey and won Monday in New York. That’s three wins from the last four road games and a record of 3-5-2 heading into the finale.
Chicago comes in at 3-8-0, last in the Central Division, and it’s the scoring numbers that explain why. The Blackhawks average 2.18 goals and 21.4 shots per game, both near the bottom of the league, and they’re allowing 3.91 goals a night at the other end.
Oddsmakers have the Kings at 1.82 on the moneyline and Chicago at 2.02, with the total set at 5.5 goals. I’d say that price gives the fatigue argument more weight than it deserves, for reasons that have more to do with Chicago’s offense than with anything Los Angeles does.
The Blackhawks have been underdogs in all 11 games this season and won three of them. They lost 3-2 to Florida on Sunday, which at least means they’ve had a day off and the Kings haven’t.
Chicago Blackhawks: 21.4 shots a game and a power play at 8.3% 
Chicago’s two wins before Sunday showed what this group looks like when it scores. The Blackhawks beat Pittsburgh 5-3 and then Winnipeg 4-3 in overtime, and for a few days the record looked like it might settle down.
Instead, a 4-0 loss to Dallas followed, then 4-1 against Montreal and 3-2 against Florida, so the team has scored three goals across its last three games. When a side is producing 21.4 shots per game, it needs its shooters to be efficient, and that hasn’t happened.
The power play is the bigger concern. Chicago is converting 8.3% of its chances, which turns the one area where the Kings are vulnerable into something close to a non-factor. Los Angeles has killed only 65.5% of penalties this season, but a power play this unproductive won’t make them pay.
Patrick Kane leads the team with seven points, six of them assists, and Anton Frondell has a goal and five assists. Teuvo Teravainen, Tyler Bertuzzi and Connor Bedard have five points each, with Bedard on two goals in five games since his season debut. Roman Kantserov leads the team with four goals and Frank Nazar has three.
In goal, Spencer Knight has carried most of the load at 3-6-0 with a 3.48 goals-against average and a .890 save percentage. Arvid Soderblom has lost both starts with a 4.58 GAA and an .820 save percentage, so a Knight start is the better outcome for Chicago. Defenseman Bowen Byram is out.
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Los Angeles Kings: Panarin leads the team with seven goals in ten games 
Artemi Panarin’s power-play goal at 1:30 of the second period on Monday was his seventh of the season, the most on the roster, and it came in the building where he scored 205 goals in 485 games as a Ranger. He’s played ten games for Los Angeles, and only Kempe and Clarke come close to his output.
Adrian Kempe had eight points (three goals) before Monday, while Brandt Clarke and Alex Laferriere had seven each. Clarke added a goal at MSG less than four minutes after Taylor Ward scored on a breakaway at 1:15 for his first of the season.
The defense is where Monday’s result came from, though. Drew Doughty beat Reimer from the point at 17:32 of the first, Mikey Anderson scored at 6:54 of the second, and Joel Edmundson finished it into an empty net. With eight point-getters coming from the blue line in one game, the attack isn’t depending on two or three forwards.
Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves for his third win. His numbers before Monday were 2-3-1 with a 3.55 GAA and an .890 save percentage, so he’s not been the reason for the turnaround. Anton Forsberg sits at 0-2-1 with a 2.48 GAA and an .894 save percentage, and on a back-to-back he’s the likelier starter in Chicago.
The injury list is long. Alex Turcotte, Jakub Dvorak, Jan Jenik and Kevin Fiala are out, Quinton Byfield is day-to-day, and Mats Zuccarello went on injured reserve on Monday with an upper-body injury. Peter Laviolette’s win at MSG was the 849th of his coaching career, which tied him with Ken Hitchcock for sixth all-time.
Probable lineup Chicago Blackhawks: Not announced at time of publication
Probable lineup Los Angeles Kings: Not announced at time of publication
Free NHL Prediction: Chicago Blackhawks vs Los Angeles Kings
Our prediction: Los Angeles Kings to win (moneyline) at 1.82
The case against the Kings is the schedule: a back-to-back, the last stop of a five-game trip, and possibly Forsberg rather than Kuemper in net. Even so, Chicago has scored three goals in three games, averages 2.18 a night and is converting 8.3% of its power plays, so the Kings’ weakest area, a penalty kill at 65.5%, isn’t likely to be tested.
Los Angeles has 27 goals through ten games and has scored five or more in two of its last four road games. Chicago has conceded at least three goals in each of its last five games. The Kings have the deeper scoring, a defense that’s contributing at the other end and the better recent form on the road.
At 1.82, I’d back the Kings to finish the trip with a fourth win from five road games. Chicago has won three of 11 as an underdog this season, and nothing in the last week suggests that rate is about to rise.
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