. The lone nationally televised game (NHL Network) on Thursday's slate is a good one as the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings travel to Pittsburgh to take on and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Kings are a bit shorthanded coming into this game and will likely once again be without the duo of and that helped carry them to their second title in three years last season. If there is one team that you don't want to be playing with that sort of firepower on the sidelines, it's definitely a Pittsburgh team that can score goals in bunches, just as they did on Tuesday night in an 8-3 rout against New Jersey. Crosby and are still the straw that stirs the drink in Pittsburgh and both are playing fantastic hockey this Charles Barkley Jersey season. Crosby enters the day just one point behind for the league lead in scoring while Malkin has recorded a point in every game the Penguins have played this season.Penguins 3, Kings 2 With back-to-back wins, the Blues seem to finally be starting to find their stride after a slow start that saw them lose four of their first six games. Their most recent victory was an overtime win against the Dallas Stars that featured a hat trick, which came after they knocked off the Chicago Blackhawks. They're going to get another Dwight Howard Jersey major test Thursday night when they host the Anaheim Ducks, who are tied for the NHL lead in points (16) entering the day and have one of the top goal-scorers in the league in Corey Perry playing at the top of his game. The two teams already met this season back on Oct. 19 in Anaheim where the Ducks were 3-0 winners. With the matchup moving to St. Louis, the Blues will turn things around.Blues 5, Ducks 2 The Sharks have been all over the map so far this season, winning four of their first five games including a season-opening three-game winning streak, then following that up later with a four-game losing streak. They enter their game on Thursday in Minnesota having won back-to-back games and looking for the second three-game win streak of the season. has been the hot hand for San Jose lately with 12 points in his past seven games, including four multi-point games. Sharks 3, Wild 1 On one side, we have the Boston Bruins, a team that is quickly running out of defenseman. plays for the New York Islanders following a preseason trade while and are sidelined for several weeks due to injury, Wilt Chamberlain Jersey leaving their defense as , and a bunch of question marks. The good news? They get a Buffalo team that is off to one of the worst offensive starts in NHL history and has shown no sign of improvement. Will they provide a better effort than they did on Tuesday against Toronto? Maybe, but it probably won't be enough. Bruins 4, Sabres 2 Here is the rest of Thursday's schedule (all times ET):Winnipeg at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Chicago at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Arizona at Florida, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 9 p.m.Montreal at Vancouver, 10 p.m. 1. , :Other than maybe Alex Ovechkin, there is no other goal-scorer in the NHL that is as dangerous as Steven Stamkos, and Thursday night he gets to go up against an immobile Flyers defense that is near the bottom of the league in both shots and goals against. Stamkos has scored in five of his past eight games against the Flyers.2. , : Few 18-year-olds put up the type of numbers that we saw from MacKinnon in his debut season with Terrance Ferguson Jersey the Avalanche in 2013-14, but the former No. 1 overall pick has yet to make his presence felt on the scoresheet Matisse Thybulle Jersey this season with zero goals and only four a sists through the first 10 games of the season. That only means he's probably long overdue to have a breakout game. 3. Marian Ho sa, : One of the most underrated superstars of his era, Ho sa is another player that seems to be due for a breakout game. With only three points in nine games for the Blackhawks, his box score numbers are not yet jumping off the page but he is currently carrying into play Thursday night and has been snakebit by some unsustainably low shooting percentages. As long as he's controlling play and getting pucks on net, it's only a matter of when, and not if, pucks start going in for him. A game in Ottawa against one of his former teams seems like a great place to start.