Toronto will host the next regular season match of the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings. Our sports portal gives a forecast for the game.
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Canadian club is located on the third line in the Eastern Conference table. This season, Sheldon Keogh's team played 27 games in the regular season and scored 38 points. Now the Maple Leafs are five points behind the leading New Jersey. The Canadian club held the previous match in the "regular season" in Texas, where it beat the local Dallas with a score of 4:0. Goalkeeper Matt Murray played for zero, and John Tavares, Auston Matthews, Rasmus Sandin and Alexander Kerfoot scored accurate shots.
Los Angeles Kings
The Kings played the previous match in Canada, where they beat Ottawa with a score of 5:2. Matt Roy, Miki Anderson, Viktor Arvidsson (twice) and Kevin Fiala scored goals for the winners. Note that the guests scored four goals out of five in the first period. Los Angeles won for the second time in the last three matches. This season, the club from California played 28 games in the regular season and scored 32 points. Todd McLellan's team is currently ranked 5th in the Western Conference table.
Statistics and figures:
- Bookmakers consider Toronto the favorite of the match.
- In the last face-to-face meetings, the Kings have won 11, the Maple Leafs - 10.
- The previous game ended with a score of 4:2 in favor of LA.
Forecast
Recent matches involving teams in Toronto, as a rule, are "grassroots". I believe that the upcoming game will not be an exception.