Blake Lizotte spent the first six seasons of his professional career with the Los Angeles Kings organization from 2018 to 2024. With the Kings, Lizotte played 320 regular season games, scoring 106 points (37G-69A).

Evgeni Malkin has scored more game-winning goals (4) against the Los Angeles Kings than any other active player in the Eastern Conference. Additionally, he has scored 20 points in 22 career games against the Kings, with nine goals and 11 assists.

Bryan Rust has seven goals, four assists and 11 points in 12 career games against the Kings, including six goals and eight points (6G-2A) in his last seven games against the Kings.

Erik Karlsson ranks fourth among active blueliners compared to Los Angeles. In 35 career games, he scored four goals, 28 assists and 32 points. He enters tomorrow’s game on an active four-game assist/point streak (5A) against them.

* Forward Michael Bunting will play his 300th career NHL game tomorrow against Los Angeles. After scoring just one point in his first 12 games, Bunting has accumulated 13 points (7G-6A) in 19 games. He leads Pittsburgh with four power play goals and is just three power play goals shy of his career high. Bunting’s first 299 career games came between Pittsburgh, Toronto, Arizona and Carolina.

* Over the last seven games, defenseman Kris Letang leads the team with nine points (5G-4A), which includes an active points streak of four games (3G-2A). Since November 30, his five goals are first among all NHL defensemen and his nine points are tied for the league lead among NHL blueliners.

Letang’s four-game point streak is also the longest active streak among NHL defensemen.

Letang’s five goals in seven games since November 30 mark only the third time in his career that he has scored five or more goals in seven games (also February 20 to March 4, 2021 and December 31, 2015–15. January 2016). He has never scored six goals in an eight-game span at any point in his career.

* Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang combined to score 305 goals in their careers. They are just one goal behind Boston’s Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr, who combined for the second-most goals by a forward-defensemen duo in NHL history.

* Sidney Crosby is one multi-point performance behind Steve Yzerman (477) for seventh place on the NHL’s all-time multi-point games list.

Sidney Crosby is two points behind Joe Sakic for the eighth-most points (regular season + playoffs) in NHL history.

Sidney Crosby is just one even-strength goal shy of Teemu Selanne for the 12th most even-strength goals in NHL history.

* The Penguins filled the net during their 6-2-1 streak. Since November 27th, the Penguins have ranked first in the NHL in goals. Pittsburgh’s 20 unique scorers this season are the fourth-most in the NHL.

The Penguins’ power play has increased recently, scoring 11 times in the team’s last 12 games. During that span, Pittsburgh’s power play percentage of 29.7% (11/37) ranks 10th in the league and ranks fifth with 11 power play goals.