Ottawa Senators vs. Los Angeles Kings: Prediction, Preview, Picks & Odds - 11/27/2022

Time: 10:30 p.m. ET

Venue: Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, CA

Where to watch: BSW, TSN5, RDS2

DraftKings: Kings -155, Senators +135

FanDuel: Kings -160, Senators +132

BetMGM: Kings -161, Senators +135

Caesars: Kings -155, Senators +130

Senators: 7-12-1

Kings: 12-9-2

Senators: won 5-1 at Ducks

Kings: won 5-2 at Sharks

It has been a rough stretch of games over the last week for the Los Angeles Kings, and realistically for their opponent the Ottawa Senators. There hasn't been this good structure of winning for either of these two teams as of late but both teams are coming off victories in their last game on Friday, and both teams have a chance to put a second wind together under their belt after getting a victory on Friday. Because that's exactly what you want. I guess we'll find out when the two teams meet on Sunday in what could be a springboard for momentum.

Ottawa is coming off a 5-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday in which the Senators scored three times on the power play to get a much-needed victory. How badly are we talking about with this win? Ottawa in its last three games prior to that combined scored a grand total of three goals. If you look at Ottawa through a much more desirable lens, you will see how there is no in-between for Ottawa. It's either the Senators are scoring one goal or at least four or five.

That is the way of the land for Ottawa at this point. Ottawa is either going to score a bunch of goals in its game, thanks to the major support system from Brady Tkachuk, Alex DeBrincat or others, or it's going to struggle to score at times because of lofty expectations and the unwillingness to take that next leap as a team with so much to prove.

That's why this book-end situation of a 5 game sample size is so funny because one night Ottawa can look like the team that no one wants to face on any given night, and then suddenly there's a three-game stretch where no one has any right to believe them whatsoever. And that, my friends, makes everything hilarious as it pertains to this kind of next chapter within the Ottawa Senators.

As for Los Angeles, those lofty expectations are only predicated on those who are trying to build off that success from last year. And I don't think anyone's expecting Los Angeles to come back and have himself a strong season. But what is happening right now with Los Angeles is the ability to rely on a number of veterans who have been there and done that and have put themselves in a position to want to play good hockey. And that's why you have a person like Kevin Fiala leading the charge with 22 points this season, 15 of them being assists.

There's still a lot of hockey left to be played here, and Los Angeles is in a weird position to be a very good team toward the end of the regular season, but like most teams that are right there on the cusp of everything happening, it's going to come down to gold technique. And if Jonathan quick and Cal Peterson are not the answers that you're looking for as it pertains to goaltending, then the kings really need to make a decision or two as to how they want to proceed this year.

if the production from Cam Talbot is finally going to resonate in some wins for Ottawa, then this might be exactly what Ottawa needs to get going. Talbot has been very good since he's becoming more important mainstay in the goalie rotation, and I expect a big game from him for an Ottawa victory. Senators win 4-2

Senators are 12-7 on the road when playing a fourth game in 7 days the last 2 seasons.

Senators are 4-20 in November the last 2 seasons.

Kings are 8-18 at home after scoring four goals or more in the last game the last 3 seasons.

Senators:

Brady Tkachuk -- Tim Stutzle -- Drake Batherson

Alex DeBrincat -- Shane Pinto -- Claude Giroux

Tyler Motte -- Derick Brassard -- Mathieu Joseph

Parker Kelly -- Dylan Gambrell -- Austin Watson

Lassi Thomson -- Artem Zub

Jake Sanderson -- Travis Hamonic

Erik Brannstrom -- Nick Holden

Cam Talbot

Kings:

Kevin Fiala -- Anze Kopitar -- Adrian Kempe

Trevor Moore -- Phillip Danault -- Viktor Arvidsson

Carl Grundstrom -- Blake Lizotte -- Gabriel Vilardi

Jaret Anderson-Dolan -- Rasmus Kupari -- Arthur Kaliyev

Mikey Anderson -- Drew Doughty

Alexander Edler -- Matt Roy

Jacob Moverare -- Sean Walker

Jonathan Quick