Game Preview – Sutter’s Kings vs Sutter’s Flames

This is the first of our four meetings this season. It seems odd that our first meeting is past the half way mark but we will play again just 5 days from now at Staples for game 2. Last season the Kings had a pretty good run against Calgary with a 4-1 record and it looks like our pp and goal scoring is picking up as well.

There is quite a bit of news for these two teams that it’s hard to condense it in a small game preview, but I’ll try. The Flames have won 8 straight games at home and will have new forward Cammalleri on the ice with them. Cammalleri was traded DURING THE GAME on Thursday and put in a cab and sent to his hotel. He then found out he had been traded back to Calgary where he played in 2008-2009 and put up team best numbers. Mike Cammalleri was drafted by the Kings and sent to Calgary in a trade in 2008.

Did everbody die a little bit when Anze was hit hard by Morrow on Thursday? Rumors have it that he is doubtful for a start tonight. Anze himself has said he is fine and Coach Sutter said the same. I am going to leave him in the line up tonight and hope he will be well enough to play. After seeing his hit, I thought for sure he would be out for a few games if not more with a concussion. But Anze said he is fine, so I’ll take his word and the word of the medical staff and hope to see him start.

A few Notes:

Darryl Sutter coaches against brother Brent Sutter for the first time since resigning as GM for Calgary.

Darryl Sutter has coached against one of his brothers at one time or another for a total of 32 games.

Kings had 3 pp goals in the last game against Dallas. They had previously had 3 pp goals in the last 9 games combined.

The Kings have 50 pts to Calgary’s 47.

We don’t know as of now who will start in net tonight, so I will leave Quick up as a starter. The rest is the same as last game. I’ll note in comments if there are changes later.

Kings Line Up:

# 23 Brown– # 11 Kopitar – # 14 Williams

#25 Penner – # 10 Richards – #28 Stoll

# 15 Richardson– # 48 Loktionov – # 22 Lewis

# 13 Clifford – # 24 Fraser – # 47 Hunter

# 8 Doughty – # 7 Scuderi

# 27 Martinez –# 33 Mitchell

# 22 Greene – # 3 Johnson

# 45 Bernier

# 32 Quick

Calgary Flames

#20 Curtis Glencross – #13 Olli Jokinen – #12 Jarome Iginla

#93 Mike Cammalleri – #11 Mikael Backlund – #22 Lee Stempniak

#32 Paul Byron – #19 Blair Jones – #10 Blake Comeau

#16 Tom Kostopoulos – #57 Lance Bouma – #15 Tim Jackman

#4 Jay Bouwmeester – #44 Chris Butler

#7 TJ Brodie – #6 Cory Sarich

#5 Mark Giordano – #33 Anton Babchuk

#34 Miikka Kiprusoff

#37 Leland Irving

Go! Kings! Go!