Los Angeles Kings vs. Vegas Golden Knights FREE LIVE STREAM (10/22/24): Watch NHL online | Time, TV, Channel for the regular season

The Los Angeles Kings will face the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 (10/22/24) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

How to watch: Fans can watch the game via a free trial on DirecTV Stream and fuboTV.

Here’s what you need to know:

What: NHL regular season game

Who: LA Kings at Vegas Golden Knights

When: Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Time: 11:00 p.m. ET

Where: T-Mobile Arena

TV: ESPN

Station finder: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice,Cox, DIRECTV, Court, Hulu, fuboTV, loop.

Live stream: DirecTV stream, fuboTV.

Here’s a recent AP NHL story

Peter DeBoer was worried. The veteran coach, now in his fifth NHL job, feared his Dallas Stars would get off to a slow start after back-to-back trips to the Western Conference finals.

“Will it take a while to get started?” DeBoer wondered. “Are we going to get some kind of hangover?”

While the Stars are doing more than fine, some other Stanley Cup contenders in the West aren’t doing so well. Colorado, Edmonton and Nashville combined to lose 13 of their first 17 games, upending the league’s standings through the first two weeks of the season.

“There are teams that are having a little trouble finding their game,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “I don’t think you can look from year to year and say, ‘Oh, I can’t believe top teams are struggling.’ … I just think it kind of depends on a lot of the details of your game.”

No Smashville start

Those details helped Dallas get off to a 5-1-0 start. They were particularly missed by the Predators, who lost their first five regular games and were the only team not to have picked up a point before Tuesday night’s home game against Boston.

Nashville went 23-10 after spending $100 million in free agency to sign two-time Cup champion Steven Stamkos, 2023 playoff MVP Jonathan Marchessault and others.

“Every team goes through these phases over the course of a season, but it’s certainly going to get worse if it starts right at the beginning, especially when the expectations for our group here are much higher than what we’re currently showing,” said Stamkos, who left Tampa Bay after 16 seasons to sign a four-year, $32 million contract. “Look at some of the teams that started slow and then had a really good season, but we’re faced with some adversity here and we’ve got to find a way out.”

Oil drops

A year ago, the Oilers lost 13 of their first 18 games and finished 30th out of 32 teams at Thanksgiving before a coaching change from Jay Woodcroft to Kris Knoblauch began to pay off. Edmonton reached the Cup final before losing to Florida.

The Oilers have lost their first three games this season and have been one of the lowest-scoring teams in the league so far, even with three-time MVP Connor McDavid, freshman Leon Draisaitl and their full complement of offensive stars on the ice.

“We get beaten in a lot of different ways,” McDavid said recently. “The puck play was poor overall. The boys fiddled with it, the boys couldn’t do it. Passes in the air, passes behind the guys, that’s just not good enough.”

Snowball Avs

The Avalanche have suffered 100 losses in six games, and the defense and goaltending haven’t been good enough to compensate. It doesn’t help that Valeri Nichushkin is suspended, captain Gabriel Landeskog is still not back after his multi-year absence since winning the Cup in 2022 and injuries continue to decimate the lineup.

“We’re in these races against other teams right now and we don’t have the firepower that we normally would have,” forward Logan O’Connor said. “I think it’s up to us to play defensively, just get smarter and figure out that we really need to focus on that and stifle and frustrate the other teams. Because we can’t get frustrated ourselves.”

Autumn habits

Turnovers and other errors occur. Stars defender Thomas Harley said that, especially in October, “it takes a little bit to get out of the glossy habits of the summer” and that this is the time to “step back and work on the less fun parts of the game.”

However, hockey is pretty fun to watch right now with pucks flying into the nets everywhere. Teams are averaging 6.4 goals per game through the first 89 games, which would be the highest in more than three decades.

“I think the shooters are a little ahead of the goalies and I think everyone’s control game is off,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “For me, review is about habits, it’s about details, and it takes a while: sticks on the ice, playing through hands, angles, not things you work on in the middle of August and July. I think that happens at the beginning of the year. There are more opportunities. There will still be some 2-1 games to watch. That probably means the goalkeeping performance was very good.”

Who is good?

Almost all of the teams at the top of the NHL currently have good goaltending. Dallas’ Jake Oettinger leads the league with a .953 save percentage, the undefeated Winnipeg Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck has the lowest goals-against average at 1.25 and the New York Rangers have impending free agent Igor Shesterkin, who at 3, showed some outstanding performances -0-1 with a GAA of 1.97 and a save percentage of .935.

New Jersey played more than anyone else, but the Devils under new coach Sheldon Keefe made the most of it, going 5-2-1 from Prague to North America. The Capitals lost their home opener to the Devils before beating them on the road and are off to a 3-1-0 start.

“I love this team,” said goalkeeper Charlie Lindgren. “We all brought a certain attitude with us, and that’s a good thing.”

All eyes are on Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s career scoring record, and he’s now 41 years away from breaking it, but he’s not even Washington’s leading scorer. Dylan Strome has a team-high seven points and Tom Wilson has a team-high five goals. Only four players in the league have more than Wilson.

“He’s playing really, really well and he’s being rewarded for it,” said coach Spencer Carbery. “We need performance and we needed people to put the pucks in the net and he’s leading the way right now.”

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