Kings vs. Rangers (Oct 26, 2026)

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Kings LAK

2-5-2

2-5-2 in Last 10

Rangers NYR

7-5-1

5-4-1 in Last 10

Preview

Kings

Rangers

Predictions

Notes

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Predictions

Lines as of 3:03 PM

NYR 57%

Now

43% LAK

LAK NYR

+122

-133

o5.5

-120

u5.5

+108

+1.5

-213

-1.5

+199

o5.5

Open

-135

Open

A. Laferriere Over 2.5 Shots on Goal -150

A. Smits Over 0.5 Goals +900

Forward Matchup

A. Panarin

LAK LW #10

A. Lafreniere

NYR LW #13

Goals

Points

Shots on Goal

Defenseman Matchup

B. Clarke

LAK D #92

A. Fox

NYR D #23

Points

Blocks

Hits

Goalie Matchup

D. Kuemper

LAK G #35

D. Garand

NYR G #33

Wins

.890

Save Pct

.900

3.55

Goals Against Avg

2.65

LAK

Team Stats

NYR

2.33

Goals per Game

3.15

3.56

Goals Against per Game

2.77

27.22

Shots per Game

24.54

29.11

Shots Against per Game

26.31

14.8

Power Play Pct

18.9

65.5

Penalty Kill Pct

92.3

.878

Save Pct

.895

LAK

Injuries

NYR

Quinton Byfield

Day to day (Upper Body)

Aidan Thompson

Out (Undisclosed)

Jakub Dvorak

Out (Upper-body)

Adam Sykora

Out (Lower-body)

Alex Turcotte

Out (Undisclosed)

Joseph Veleno

Out (Lower-Body)

Jan Jenik

Out (Undisclosed)

Joonas Korpisalo

Out (Lower-Body)

Kevin Fiala

Out (Leg)

Igor Shesterkin

Out for season (Lower Body)

2026-27 Pacific Division

LAKNYR

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Oilers	8	2	1	17	10
Golden Knights	8	4	1	17	9
Kraken	7	4	1	15	3
Sharks	6	5	1	13	-6
Ducks	5	6	0	10	-5
Flames	4	6	0	8	-16
Kings	2	5	2	6	-11
Canucks	2	9	1	5	-21

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Hurricanes	9	2	2	20	18
Rangers	7	5	1	15	5
Devils	7	4	0	14	4
Capitals	6	4	0	12	2
Islanders	5	3	2	12	6
Penguins	5	6	1	11	0
Flyers	3	7	3	9	-18
Blue Jackets	4	5	0	8	-8

LAK

Last 5

NYR

Sat, Oct 24

Sat, Oct 24

Thu, Oct 22

Thu, Oct 22

Tue, Oct 20

Mon, Oct 19

Sat, Oct 17

Sat, Oct 17

Tue, Oct 13

Thu, Oct 15

Game Info

October 26, 2026

NHL Network

Madison Square Garden

New York, New York

First Goal Scorer

Yes No

A. Kempe +567

A. Lafreniere +669

A. Panarin +669

M. Zibanejad +669

P. Dorofeyev +669

Goals

Line Over Under

A. Fox 0.5 +488 -99900

A. Kempe 0.5 +178 -203

A. Laferriere 0.5 +245 -257

A. Lafreniere 0.5 +182 -228

A. Lee 0.5 +614 -99900

Shots on Goal

Line Over Under

A. Kempe 2.5 -138 -113

A. Laferriere 2.5 -150 -104

A. Lafreniere 2.5 +127 -203

A. Panarin 2.5 -150 -104

M. Zibanejad 2.5 +130 -150

Team Leaders

A. Panarin

A. Kempe

GWG

B. Clarke

SV%

.894

A. Forsberg

Season

Career vs NYR

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	9	6	3	9	-4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	29	20.7	0	0	0	5	0	1	13	21:30
Adrian Kempe A. Kempe	9	3	5	8	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	28	10.7	17	34	50.0	17	1	2	14	20:42
Brandt Clarke B. Clarke	9	2	5	7	-6	21	0	2	0	0	1	1	19	10.5	0	0	0	1	20	4	17	19:39
Alex Laferriere A. Laferriere	9	2	5	7	+1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	12.5	27	53	50.9	24	9	0	4	19:05
Erik Haula E. Haula	9	1	3	4	-2	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	18	5.6	57	125	45.6	7	9	2	9	16:04
Scott Laughton S. Laughton	9	2	1	3	-2	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	13.3	63	112	56.3	23	9	5	8	14:35
Erik Gustafsson E. Gustafsson	7	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	6	16.7	0	0	0	1	4	6	8	18:37
Joel Armia J. Armia	9	1	1	2	-4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	9.1	3	8	37.5	15	7	2	5	13:35
Trevor Moore T. Moore	9	1	1	2	-3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	18	5.6	0	1	0.0	3	6	3	6	16:17
Quinton Byfield Q. Byfield	7	1	1	2	-6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	7.1	58	103	56.3	1	2	9	7	18:26
Cody Ceci C. Ceci	6	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0.0	0	0	0	2	7	0	6	16:35
Drew Doughty D. Doughty	9	0	1	1	+1	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	0	0	0	9	10	2	7	20:58
Mats Zuccarello M. Zuccarello	6	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	0	1	0.0	1	1	0	8	16:23
Mikey Anderson M. Anderson	9	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0.0	0	0	0	9	16	2	10	17:39
Andre Lee A. Lee	7	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	1	2	50.0	18	3	0	2	11:22
Alex Turcotte A. Turcotte	3	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	12	24	50.0	4	1	1	0	14:06
Brian Dumoulin B. Dumoulin	9	1	0	1	-2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	14.3	0	0	0	11	11	2	17	16:26
Joel Edmundson J. Edmundson	9	0	0	0	+1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0.0	0	0	0	8	13	1	6	16:25
Corey Perry C. Perry	8	0	0	0	-4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	3	3	100.0	3	7	2	2	11:39
Samuel Helenius S. Helenius	7	0	0	0	-2	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	15	36	41.7	22	2	0	5	8:57
Jared Wright J. Wright	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	9:30

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Darcy Kuemper D. Kuemper	6	6	2	3	1	173	154	.890	19	3.55	0	321
	Anton Forsberg A. Forsberg	4	3	0	2	1	85	76	.894	9	2.48	0	218

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Corey Perry C. Perry	29	13	10	23	0	33	2	3	0	0	1	74	17.6	2	6	33.3	31	5	13	18	15:48
Kevin Fiala K. Fiala	17	11	9	20	+10	18	3	4	0	0	1	39	28.2	2	5	40.0	10	4	7	13	16:51
Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	13	12	7	19	+7	6	3	0	0	0	3	40	30.0	0	1	0.0	4	4	6	10	18:59
Adrian Kempe A. Kempe	16	6	6	12	-3	15	0	2	0	0	0	42	14.3	19	55	34.5	12	4	1	7	16:33
Brian Dumoulin B. Dumoulin	38	2	9	11	+5	6	0	1	0	1	0	36	5.6	0	0	0	55	48	23	23	20:19
Scott Laughton S. Laughton	39	5	6	11	-8	35	0	1	1	0	0	66	7.6	154	299	51.5	82	16	13	22	14:30
Drew Doughty D. Doughty	27	1	9	10	-2	16	0	4	0	0	0	57	1.8	0	0	0	45	32	6	36	26:01
Erik Gustafsson E. Gustafsson	13	3	7	10	0	4	0	6	0	0	0	16	18.8	0	0	0	2	16	4	17	19:27
Cody Ceci C. Ceci	38	2	7	9	-2	6	0	0	0	0	0	52	3.8	0	0	0	42	57	9	23	20:12
Mats Zuccarello M. Zuccarello	11	4	4	8	-5	6	2	1	0	0	0	30	13.3	5	8	62.5	14	9	9	6	18:09
Joel Armia J. Armia	19	5	2	7	-8	6	0	0	0	0	1	44	11.4	1	11	9.1	23	12	9	5	14:59
Trevor Moore T. Moore	10	2	5	7	+5	4	0	1	0	0	0	28	7.1	2	4	50.0	7	4	0	3	15:59
Quinton Byfield Q. Byfield	8	2	3	5	+1	4	0	1	0	0	1	13	15.4	18	63	28.6	4	4	2	1	15:14
Erik Haula E. Haula	25	2	2	4	+7	16	0	1	0	0	0	34	5.9	123	244	50.4	29	16	10	15	15:43
Mikey Anderson M. Anderson	10	1	3	4	+4	6	0	0	0	0	1	12	8.3	0	0	0	19	22	0	6	22:05
Joel Edmundson J. Edmundson	23	0	3	3	+6	14	0	0	0	0	0	28	0.0	0	0	0	32	26	2	21	18:00
Alex Turcotte A. Turcotte	4	1	2	3	+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	11.1	8	16	50.0	5	3	2	2	12:47
Alex Laferriere A. Laferriere	6	1	2	3	+4	4	1	0	0	0	0	12	8.3	11	21	52.4	8	1	1	4	15:30
Brandt Clarke B. Clarke	4	0	2	2	+4	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	0	0	0	1	2	1	6	16:58
Samuel Helenius S. Helenius	4	0	1	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	6	16	37.5	12	1	0	1	9:48
Taylor Ward T. Ward	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50.0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	10:14
Jared Wright J. Wright	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	12:25

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Darcy Kuemper D. Kuemper	16	16	11	4	0	427	388	.909	39	2.56	2	915
	Anton Forsberg A. Forsberg	5	2	2	2	0	112	99	.884	13	3.91	0	200

Team Leaders

A. Lafreniere

A. Fox

GWG

A. Lafreniere

SV%

.927

I. Shesterkin

Season

Career vs LAK

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Adam Fox A. Fox	13	0	16	16	+4	6	0	3	0	2	0	13	0.0	0	0	0	5	23	4	15	21:54
Alexis Lafreniere A. Lafreniere	13	9	6	15	+3	14	2	2	0	0	1	30	30.0	6	13	46.2	13	6	6	15	19:04
Mika Zibanejad M. Zibanejad	13	3	8	11	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	23	13.0	114	217	52.5	23	11	6	18	20:49
J.T. Miller J.T. Miller	13	3	6	9	-1	13	1	1	0	0	1	16	18.8	120	215	55.8	18	5	3	16	18:23
Tye Kartye T. Kartye	13	3	5	8	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	19	15.8	3	8	37.5	33	5	1	4	15:16
Will Cuylle W. Cuylle	13	4	4	8	-4	20	0	2	1	0	0	29	13.8	20	36	55.6	56	5	0	7	16:04
Pavel Dorofeyev P. Dorofeyev	13	3	4	7	-11	2	1	2	0	0	1	41	7.3	0	0	0	5	4	3	10	17:31
Gabe Perreault G. Perreault	13	4	3	7	+1	0	0	3	0	0	1	27	14.8	0	3	0.0	8	10	0	5	16:28
Oliver Bjorkstrand O. Bjorkstrand	13	5	2	7	0	5	1	0	0	0	1	19	26.3	0	2	0.0	4	4	2	5	10:37
Vladislav Gavrikov V. Gavrikov	13	1	5	6	+4	6	0	0	0	0	0	19	5.3	0	0	0	14	32	2	16	21:17
Sean Durzi S. Durzi	13	2	2	4	0	15	1	0	0	0	1	11	18.2	0	0	0	9	18	8	13	20:09
Noah Laba N. Laba	13	0	4	4	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	11	0.0	94	163	57.7	27	7	2	9	15:06
Eeli Tolvanen E. Tolvanen	13	3	1	4	+4	4	0	0	0	0	0	15	20.0	0	1	0.0	19	12	0	7	12:51
Marcus Pettersson M. Pettersson	13	0	2	2	+3	8	0	0	0	1	0	9	0.0	0	0	0	19	17	5	11	20:36
Braden Schneider B. Schneider	13	0	2	2	-1	6	0	0	0	0	0	20	0.0	0	0	0	29	15	4	11	17:23
Taylor Raddysh T. Raddysh	4	0	1	1	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	1	0.0	1	2	0	3	7:58
Joseph Veleno J. Veleno	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	21	39	53.8	7	5	2	2	11:37
Matt Rempe M. Rempe	2	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	6:46
Alberts Smits A. Smits	13	0	0	0	-3	8	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	13	7	2	10	14:44

Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
Dylan Garand D. Garand	9	8	4	4	1	211	190	.900	21	2.65	1	475
Igor Shesterkin I. Shesterkin	5	5	3	1	0	109	101	.927	8	1.79	0	268
Spencer Martin S. Martin	1	0	0	0	0	18	15	.833	3	5.09	0	35

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
J.T. Miller J.T. Miller	29	10	19	29	+5	9	1	7	0	0	1	1	60	16.7	194	351	55.3	78	16	10	24	18:38
Mika Zibanejad M. Zibanejad	22	7	11	18	+2	16	4	1	0	0	1	0	42	16.7	185	354	52.3	22	16	8	14	18:41
Pavel Dorofeyev P. Dorofeyev	13	9	4	13	+3	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	35	25.7	0	0	0	4	6	6	8	15:13
Oliver Bjorkstrand O. Bjorkstrand	18	6	6	12	-2	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	38	15.8	0	1	0.0	17	13	14	7	15:53
Adam Fox A. Fox	11	0	8	8	+1	6	0	4	0	0	0	0	14	0.0	0	0	0	7	19	10	7	24:01
Taylor Raddysh T. Raddysh	14	3	2	5	-6	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	18	16.7	2	6	33.3	27	6	5	3	13:37
Eeli Tolvanen E. Tolvanen	16	1	4	5	-2	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	30	3.3	0	0	0	34	14	6	7	15:44
Marcus Pettersson M. Pettersson	18	1	3	4	-4	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	7.7	0	0	0	23	23	6	20	18:39
Vladislav Gavrikov V. Gavrikov	7	0	4	4	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	0.0	0	0	0	8	12	2	3	22:27
Alexis Lafreniere A. Lafreniere	10	1	3	4	-2	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	7.7	2	5	40.0	10	1	2	3	15:32
Sean Durzi S. Durzi	8	1	2	3	-3	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	17	5.9	0	0	0	5	17	2	5	21:34
Joseph Veleno J. Veleno	10	1	2	3	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	12.5	16	58	27.6	19	2	2	0	11:30
Braden Schneider B. Schneider	8	1	2	3	-3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	8.3	0	0	0	20	15	1	7	16:58
Will Cuylle W. Cuylle	6	2	0	2	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	16.7	3	4	75.0	29	0	0	5	14:09
Scott Morrow S. Morrow	2	0	2	2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	18:08
Tye Kartye T. Kartye	9	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	9.1	0	1	0.0	24	4	0	1	10:23
Noah Laba N. Laba	2	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	10	21	47.6	3	2	0	0	14:17
Matthew Robertson M. Robertson	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	1	3	2	1	16:25
Matt Rempe M. Rempe	1	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5:40
Gabe Perreault G. Perreault	2	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	17:23

Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	MIN
Igor Shesterkin I. Shesterkin	7	7	4	3	0	223	205	.919	18	2.80	386
Joonas Korpisalo J. Korpisalo	4	4	1	2	1	132	118	.894	14	3.48	242
Spencer Martin S. Martin	2	2	1	1	0	75	68	.907	7	3.38	124

Rangers try to extend home win streak, face the Kings

The Associated Press

Oct 25, 2026

Los Angeles Kings (2-5-2, in the Pacific Division) vs. New York Rangers (7-5-1, in the Metropolitan Division)

New York; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers, on a six-game home winning streak, host the Los Angeles Kings.

New York has gone 6-0-0 at home and 7-5-1 overall. The Rangers have gone 4-0-0 in games their opponents serve more penalty minutes.

Los Angeles has gone 2-1-2 in road games and 2-5-2 overall. The Kings have a -11 scoring differential, with 21 total goals scored and 32 conceded.

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.

INJURIES: Rangers: Joseph Veleno: out (lower-body), Igor Shesterkin: out for season (lower body), Joonas Korpisalo: out (lower-body), Aidan Thompson: out (undisclosed), Adam Sykora: out (lower-body).

Kings: Jakub Dvorak: out (upper-body), Quinton Byfield: day to day (upper body), Kevin Fiala: out (leg), Jan Jenik: out (undisclosed), Alex Turcotte: out (undisclosed).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

Kings LAK

Rangers NYR

Predictions

Forward Matchup

Defenseman Matchup

Goalie Matchup

Team Stats

Injuries

2026-27 Pacific Division

Last 5

Game Info

First Goal Scorer

Goals

Shots on Goal

Rangers try to extend home win streak, face the Kings

Players Mentioned

Kevin Fiala

Joonas Korpisalo

Igor Shesterkin

Jan Jenik

Alex Turcotte

Quinton Byfield