Los Angeles Kings at Florida Panthers: game preview
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20that
FloridaPanthers2026-27: 2-0-2 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 40-38-4 · 84 pts · 25thSix points apart last season
Los Angeles finished last season 20th in the league on 90 points. Florida finished 25th on 84, and the 2025-26 season series went FLA 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 52
Across 51 completed games, Los Angeles lead the head-to-head 31-18-1.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 6 Nov 2025, Los Angeles were 18th in the league and Florida 20th. By 6 Oct it was 31st and 4th.
Florida out-attempted Los Angeles 296 to 286
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Los Angeles Kings
Florida Panthers
Los Angeles have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Los Angeles, 4 for Florida. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Los Angeles, 10 for Florida.
2025-26: 82 games for Los Angeles, 82 for Florida.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Los Angeles
Small sampleFlorida
Small sampleSam Bennett has 4 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Sam Bennett vs Los Angeles · game by game
See all: Sam Bennett vs Los Angeles · game by game →Darcy Kuemper has been the difference
Darcy Kuemper faced 94 shots across 3 appearances against Florida and conceded 5, a .947 save percentage against a season figure of .825. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 23 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 21 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Darcy Kuemper
See all: Darcy Kuemper →LAK · 0-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Anton Forsberg .800 (1 GP)
Full game logFlorida crease
FLA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Jan
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01
Florida2.002.003.063.37Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
8 on the injury lists
Los Angeles · injuries
Florida · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve. Called up D Alexander Petrovic from Charlotte (AHL).
Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve.
Placed RW/C Cole Schwindt, RD Alexander Petrovic, LD Donovan Sebrango, LW Kai Schwindt, LW Cole Reinhardt, RW Sam Lafferty and C/LW John Beecher on waivers. Agreed to terms with RW Nathan Bastian on a 1-year, two-way contract.
Los Angeles · 2026 draft
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