L.A. Kings vs St. Louis Blues live stream: Watch online free 8:10 ET Thursday as these two legit playoff-contenders in the Western Conference meet for the third and final time this season.

In December, the 28-14-5 Kings won 3-2 vs the Blues in L.A. In St. Louis, 14 days ago, the Blues shutout the Kings 5-0. Watch the free live stream online to see who can win the season-series as St. Louis goes for its ninth win in 10 games.

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Jon Quick has returned for five games now and has gone 3-1-1 in his return. He's coming off a 28-save, 1-0 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday. One of his replacements, Martin Jones, was 8-3-0 with a 1.41 goals-against average, .950 save percentage and three shutouts while Quick was sidelined. He was the NHL co-rookie of the month in December.

"Part of that deal was to bring Jones back," assistant general manager Rob Blake told the Kings website Wednesday. "The people here are pretty familiar with his start to the season. He established himself at this NHL level, so it's nice to have him back."

St. Louis has allowed two goals or fewer in the past eight games, with two shutouts (one each by Elliott and Halak). Halak will be in net for the game Thursday night.

"Brian had the shutout [against Los Angeles], Brian has played well, Jaro has played really well, both guys deserve to keep playing so we're going to keep playing both guys," coach Ken Hitchcock told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. We looked at this week and we looked at next week. With so many hockey games, this is six in 10 nights, and we know each guy is probably going to have to play three games. So we just felt like Jaro played very well, let's keep that one going, and we want to see how Brian looks against Anaheim. It's going to be a significant game for both teams."