Los Angeles Kings vs. Anaheim Ducks

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This is the return leg, and in a rivalry built entirely on a stretch of freeway the return leg matters more than the first one. The Freeway Face-Off splits Southern California households rather than cities, and the Saturday version downtown draws the Orange County contingent north in numbers that turn a home game into something closer to a split building. Thanksgiving weekend helps: nobody is working, the 5 is survivable for once, and a six o'clock start means the whole thing is done in time for whatever the family still expects of you. Crypto.com Arena is also the louder of the two buildings when it is full, and this is one of the handful of nights a year it genuinely is. These two also play the night before down in Anaheim, so whoever lost on Friday arrives with something to prove and the tone is set before anyone drops a glove. Saturday the twenty-eighth, first puck at six, downtown on Figueroa.