Kings Shut Out by Predators, Suns Rout Clippers; Lakers Chase Seventh Straight in Milwaukee

Nashville's Juuse Saros made 30 saves to blank the Kings for the first time this season, Phoenix hit 22 threes against the 2-8 Clippers, and the 10-2 Lakers get Austin Reaves back for tonight's game against the Bucks.

By Herald Staff · Nov. 11, 2026, 5:30 PM ET

Illustration of an empty indoor hockey rink at night seen from a high corner of the arena, the white ice glowing under spotlights with red and blue lines and a goal net in the foreground, ringed by tiers of empty purple seats beneath a dark hanging scoreboard. — The Kings were shut out at home for the first time this season Tuesday, while the Clippers lost in Phoenix and the Lakers visit Milwaukee tonight.

LOS ANGELES — It was a rough Tuesday night for two of the city's teams. The Kings were shut out at home for the first time this season, 3-0 by the Nashville Predators, while the Clippers trailed by as many as 32 points in a 133-110 loss at Phoenix. The Lakers, the one local club on a roll, try to stretch their six-game winning streak to seven tonight in Milwaukee.

Saros Blanks the Kings

Juuse Saros made 30 saves and Filip Forsberg scored twice as Nashville won its fifth straight game, NHL.com reported. Forsberg scored at 5:20 of the first period and again at 10:32 of the second with a wrist shot from the left circle, and Adam Wilsby added an empty-net goal late in the third, according to the official game summary, which lists a crowd of 15,008 at Crypto.com Arena.

Nils Hoglander set up both Forsberg goals. The first came off a blue-line turnover, and Hoglander slipped a backhand pass through defenseman Cody Ceci's legs, the Associated Press reported. Anton Forsberg stopped 27 shots for Los Angeles, which went 0 for 2 on the power play and pushed hard in the third period, when Saros made 13 of his saves.

"Obviously didn't score, so it's not good enough," Kings center Scott Laughton said, according to NHL.com. The Kings had not been shut out in a regular-season game since a 4-0 loss at Colorado on March 27, 2025, a stretch of 108 games.

The loss dropped the Kings to 5-9-2. They have lost three of their last four and are 2-3-0 on a seven-game homestand. There was one bright spot: winger Mats Zuccarello returned after missing six games with an injury, the AP reported. The game also brought former Kings general manager Rob Blake back to the arena. He now works as the Predators' executive vice president of hockey operations. The Kings host the New York Islanders on Thursday night.

Suns Bury the Clippers From Deep

In Phoenix, the Suns made 22 of 43 three-pointers, or 51%, and seven players scored in double figures, the AP reported. Jordan Goodwin, back from a calf injury, scored 18 points in 13 minutes off the bench and made six of his seven three-point tries. Devin Booker added 17 points.

The Clippers trailed 29-18 after one quarter and 64-47 at halftime, according to the NBA.com box score. Rui Hachimura, Darius Garland and Baba Miller each scored 13 points, and Max Strus added 12. As a team, the Clippers shot 42.2% from the field and 15 of 44 from three.

The injury list remains long. Bradley Beal, Brandon Ingram and four other players were inactive, according to the official scorer's report. The loss came one game after a win over New Orleans had snapped a seven-game skid, and it left the Clippers at 2-8. They return to Intuit Dome on Friday to face the Oklahoma City Thunder at 7:30 p.m. Pacific, according to the NBA.

Lakers Get Reaves Back, Not Grimes

The 10-2 Lakers, first in the Western Conference, play the Bucks at Fiserv Forum tonight. Tipoff is 5 p.m. Pacific, according to Sports Mole's preview. Austin Reaves is available after an illness kept him out of Monday's 124-114 win in Atlanta. Quentin Grimes was ruled out on the league's afternoon injury report with a sprained right finger and will miss a second straight game, Heavy reported. Walker Kessler is listed as available while he plays with a splint on his left finger, according to the NBA's injury report.

Milwaukee is 1-10 and has lost seven in a row. The Bucks lost 117-85 in New York on Tuesday, so they play tonight on no rest. They will also be without leading scorer Tyler Herro, who has a right knee contusion, Sports Mole reported.

The Lakers' winning streak has held up even with key players missing. Reaves scored a season-high 43 at Detroit with Luka Dončić out, and Dončić returned in Atlanta with 32 points and 10 assists while Reaves sat. CBS Sports moved the Lakers up five spots to No. 2 in its weekly power rankings on Wednesday, behind only San Antonio.

Original reporting by The Los Angeles Herald, drawing on NHL.com, the Associated Press, NBA.com, the NHL and NBA official game reports, Heavy, Sports Mole and CBS Sports, as linked above.