{"id":322323,"date":"2026-11-06T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322323\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:14:08","slug":"los-angeles-plays-pittsburgh-after-kempes-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322323\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles plays Pittsburgh after Kempe’s hat trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> (5-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings<\/a> (5-7-2, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Kings host the Pittsburgh Penguins after Adrian Kempe<\/a> recorded a hat trick in the Kings’ 7-2 win against the San Jose Sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has gone 2-4-0 at home and 5-7-2 overall. The Kings have conceded 47 goals while scoring 43 for a -4 scoring differential.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 5-9-2 record overall and a 1-6-1 record in road games. The Penguins have a 2-4-1 record in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Artemi Panarin<\/a> has eight goals and nine assists for the Kings. Kempe has five goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Erik Karlsson<\/a> has three goals and 13 assists for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell<\/a> has scored five goals with two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 5-5-0, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.2 assists, four penalties and 10.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Penguins: 2-7-1, averaging 2.9 goals, 5.3 assists, 2.7 penalties and 6.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Kings: Jakub Dvorak: out (upper-body), Mats Zuccarello<\/a>: out (upper-body), Kevin Fiala: out (leg), Jan Jenik<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Alex Turcotte<\/a>: out (undisclosed).<\/p>\n

Penguins: Bryan Rust: out (lower-body), Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/a>: out (lower body), Ryan Graves<\/a>: out (lower-body), Elmer Soderblom: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins (5-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (5-7-2, in the Pacific Division) Los Angeles;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130676,130679,44410,27188,56878,130678,1249,130677,33946,73,75,74,1067,10175,13221,73899],"class_list":["post-322323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-adrian-kempe","tag-alex-turcotte","tag-artemi-panarin","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-event_preview","tag-jan-jenik","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-mats-zuccarello","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-rickard-rakell","tag-ryan-graves","tag-trevor-van-riemsdyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}