Projected Lines, Defensive Pairings For Bruins-Kings Matchup
The Bruins will wrap up their penultimate back-to-back of the season Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
After dropping the first two games of its West Coast road trip in Las Vegas and San Jose, Boston will try to bounce back against the Kings, who entered the tilt ranked third in the Pacific Division. The first head-to-head showdown between these clubs was all the way back in early October when the B’s prevailed 2-1 in overtime at TD Garden.
Following Joonas Korpisalo’s 18-save performance Saturday, Jeremy Swayman is expected to be in net for the visitors at Crypto.com Arena. Swayman gave the Kings trouble in that aforementioned collision when he turned away 33 Los Angeles shots.
Here are the projected lines and defensive pairings for Sunday’s Bruins-Kings game:
BRUINS (30-32-9)
Morgan Geekie — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Cole Koepke — Casey Mittelstadt — Vinni Lettieri
Marat Khusnutdinov — Elias Lindholm — Fabian Lysell
Jakub Lauko — John Beecher — Patrick Brown
Nikita Zadorov — Henri Jokiharju
Mason Lohrei — Andrew Peeke
Parker Wotherspoon — Michael Callahan
Jeremy Swayman
KINGS (38-21-9)
Andrei Kuzmenko — Anze Kopitar — Adrian Kempe
Warren Foegele — Phillip Danault — Trevor Moore
Kevin Fiala — Quinton Byfield — Alex Laferriere
Tanner Jeannot — Samuel Helenius — Alex Turcotte
Mikey Anderson — Drew Doughty
Vladislav Gavrikov — Jordan Spence
Joel Edmundson — Brandt Clarke
Darcy Kuemper