Preview: Coyotes at Kings

GAME 26:
Coyotes (12-11-2) at Kings (10-16-1)
Arizona will try to extend its winning streak to four games when it plays the first of four matchups vs. Los Angeles this season on Tuesday night.

WHERE: Staples Center | WHEN: 8:30 p.m. (AZ time) | TV:FOX Sports Arizona Plus | RADIO:ESPN 620 AM

ABOUT THE 'YOTES:
• The Coyotes are back on the road after a brief one-game homestand in which they topped St. Louis, 6-1, to stretch their win streak to three games. Arizona has outscored opponents 13-4 since its last defeat on Nov. 25.
• Adin Hill, whom the NHL named its Second Star of the Week on Monday, will start in goal. Hill posted a 3-0-0 record and led all NHL goaltenders with a .983 save percentage and a 0.43 goals-against average last week. Antti Raanta, who has missed the past two games because of a lower-body injury, practiced Monday and accompanied the team to Los Angeles. He likely will not play. Calvin Pickard will be Hill's backup.

• Clayton Keller, who leads the Coyotes with 18 points and eight goals, is riding a two-game goal-scoring streak. Keller has notched four game-winning goals this season, which ranks third in the NHL. Tampa Bay's Yanni Gourde and Colorado's Gabriel Landeskog have tallied five.

• Mario Kempe will be in the lineup for the first time since Oct. 13, replacing Michael Grabner as the left wing on the third line. Grabner suffered an eye injury vs. St. Louis and is out indefinitely. Kempe has zero points in four games this season, but he produced 11 points in 10 American Hockey League games since last playing for Arizona.
"I know Grabner is hurt, and he is a really important player for us and he's good at killing penalties, so if they want me in the penalty kill I'll do my best there," Kempe said. "I'm going to try to play my game and do what I'm good at - get to loose pucks and forecheck hard and bring a two-way game."
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• Jordan Oesterle will skate in his 100th NHL game. Oesterle, whom the Coyotes acquired via a trade with Chicago last summer, has notched three points (one goal, two assists) in five games vs. the Kings.
• The Coyotes have won five of the past seven games they've played against the Kings at the Staples Center.

ABOUT THE KINGS:
• Los Angeles has won three of its past five games, including a 2-0 triumph over Carolina on Sunday. Nevertheless, the Kings rank last in the NHL with just 21 points after 27 games ... LA has produced only 58 goals this season, the fewest among the League's 31 teams ... Anze Kopitar leads the Kings in goals (seven) and points (17) ... Drew Doughty has dished out a team-high 13 assists and leads all NHL players in ice time per/game at 26:49 ... Jonathan Quick has stopped 65 of 68 shots since returning from an injury that sidelined him for more than five weeks. He stopped all 34 shots he faced vs. Carolina on Sunday to earn his 50th NHL shutout ... Alec Martinez ranks sixth in the NHL with 58 blocks ... Ilya Kovalchuk is expected to miss the next four weeks due to an ankle injury. Kovalchuk has tallied 14 points in 25 games in his return to the NHL after a five-year absence.
'YOTES QUOTES:
• "We're expecting the same LA team they've always been, just a big, hard, fast team. Just because they're struggling it doesn't mean you can take them lightly. They're so offensively powerful they can put up five, six goals in a game at any time, and now they have Jonathan Quick back in net so we're expecting a hard game. We're not going in there expecting them to play to their record." -- Jordan Oesterle
• "I want to play fast, but we've got to get the puck and you've got to be committed to defense ... That's something that as a staff, and as players and as a leadership group, we have to make each other accountable (for) and say 'We got to hang in there to get the puck first before we take off.' Speed's great, but when speed cheats, it doesn't win. I think you have to be committed to defense first and then speed." -- Rick Tocchet
• "We've just kind of gotten back to our style of play. We're using our feet, using our speed, we're defending well and we're getting good goaltending. When we can work from the back up, I think we're a really good team. We're showing that and we'll try to keep that going." -- Jakob Chychrun