 Team Record: 22-23-8Last Game: 4-2 L vs MTL Season Series: 0-0-0 of 1 |
 Team Record: 26-19-10Last Game: 3-1 L @ FLA Season Series: 0-0-0 of 1 |
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 Matt MoulsonJust eight players in the NHL have more goals this season than Moulson, who’s 24 tallies lead the Islanders. Moulson spent his first three professional seasons in the Kings organization, including his first 29 career NHL games. Since joining the Islanders as a free agent prior to the 2009-10 season, Moulson has been the model of consistency; he has not missed a game in his Islanders career (217 straight games) and is six goals shy of his third consecutive 30-goal season; no Islander since Ziggy Palffy has accomplished that feat. The North York, ON, native has three goals in four career games against his former NHL team. |
 Anze KopitarAlready in his sixth full NHL season with the Kings, the 24-year-old Kopitar leads Los Angeles in scoring with 48 points (17 goals, 31 assists) in 55 games. He carries a three-game point streak into today’s contest, with two goals and one assist during that stretch. The first round (11th overall) pick in 2005 also leads all Kings forwards in icetime (21:48) and power play goals (7). He’s posted at least 20 goals and 60 points every year since he was an 18-year-old rookie. |
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 Tonight’s Matchup: The Islanders continue their three-game, four-day homestand today with their only meeting of the season against the LA Kings. The clubs met twice last season, with each team earning a home win. LA is playing the fifth game of a six game, 12-day road trip.
Moulson vs. Quick: Brothers-in-law Matt Moulson and Jonathan Quick face off for fifth time today. Moulson notched two-goals in their last meeting en route to a 3-0 Islanders win. The Isles leading goal scorer has three career tallies against Quick. Laying Out: The Islanders lead the NHL with 922 blocked shots. Andrew MacDonald owns 123 of those, good for ninth in the NHL, while Travis Hamonic’s 115 blocked shots ranks tied for 14th in the league. |
 Al Montoya posted a 35-save shutout in his first start as an Islander, as the team beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-0 on Feb. 19, 2011. Frans Nielsen scored the short-handed game-winner at 5:01 of the first period and Matt Moulson scored two goals on brother-in-law Jonathan Quick to propel the Islanders to the win.
 Click the photo for gallery from last game. |
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Islanders
Power play: 19.8%Penalty kill: 84.5% Home record: 11-12-5 Road record: 11-11-3 Goals For: 128 Goals Against: 135 |
Kings
Power play: 15.5%Penalty kill: 87.3% Home record: 15-11-4 Road record: 11-8-6 Goals For: 154 Goals Against: 120 |
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 Answer from Thursday's question: The Islanders have played back-to-back shootouts in their last two games. What is the record for most consecutive games with a shootout? ? The answer is: 3. The Islanders played three straight shootouts in 2009-10 against Columbus (12/29) Ottawa (12/31) and Atlanta (1/2). The Isles won two of the three. |
 Kings (Expected) Lineups
Forwards: Dustin Brown-Anze Kopitar-Justin Williams; Dustin Penner-Mike Richards-Dwight King; Kyle Clifford-Andrei Loktionov-Trevor Lewis; Brad Richardson-Colin Fraser-Trent HunterDefensemen: Rob Scuderi-Drew Doughty; Willie Mitchell-Jack Johnson; Alec Martinez-Matt Greene Goaltenders: Jonathan Quick, Jonathan Bernier |
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 Head coach Jack Capuano on the team's recent scoring struggles: “I thought the Wallace line had some chances and the Josh (Bailey), Matty (Martin) and Rhett (Rakhshani) line had chances as well. We had 21 chances in the game, but it took us the whole game to score a goal.”
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| TEAM | GP | W | L | OT | GF | GA | PTS | ||
| 1 |  |
z - PIT | 48 | 36 | 12 | 0 | 165 | 119 | 72 |
| 2 |  |
y - MTL | 48 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 149 | 126 | 63 |
| 3 |  |
y - WSH | 48 | 27 | 18 | 3 | 149 | 130 | 57 |
| 4 |  |
x - BOS | 48 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 131 | 109 | 62 |
| 5 |  |
x - TOR | 48 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 145 | 133 | 57 |
| 6 |  |
x - NYR | 48 | 26 | 18 | 4 | 130 | 112 | 56 |
| 7 |  |
x - OTT | 48 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 116 | 104 | 56 |
| 8 |  |
x - NYI | 48 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 139 | 139 | 55 |
| 9 |  |
WPG | 48 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 128 | 144 | 51 |
| 10 |  |
PHI | 48 | 23 | 22 | 3 | 133 | 141 | 49 |
| 11 |  |
NJD | 48 | 19 | 19 | 10 | 112 | 129 | 48 |
| 12 |  |
BUF | 48 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 125 | 143 | 48 |
| 13 |  |
CAR | 48 | 19 | 25 | 4 | 128 | 160 | 42 |
| 14 |  |
TBL | 48 | 18 | 26 | 4 | 148 | 150 | 40 |
| 15 |  |
FLA | 48 | 15 | 27 | 6 | 112 | 171 | 36 |
| SKATERS: | GP | G | A | +/- | Pts |
| J. Tavares | 6 | 3 | 2 | -4 | 5 |
| M. Streit | 6 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| K. Okposo | 6 | 3 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
| C. Cizikas | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| M. Grabner | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| C. McDonald | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| M. Moulson | 6 | 2 | 1 | -4 | 3 |
| B. Boyes | 6 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 3 |
| K. Aucoin | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| J. Bailey | 6 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| GOALIES: | W | L | OT | Sv% | GAA |
| K. Poulin | 0 | 0 | 0 | .933 | 1.15 |
| E. Nabokov | 2 | 4 | 2 | .842 | 4.44 |
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