Allison Is Energized

Jason Allison, hampered most of January by a sinus infection that sapped his energy, said Wednesday that he feels much better and that the virus should not affect his play if he continues taking the medicine his doctors have advised him to use for the next two months.

“The last two games before the All-Star break I started to get my energy back,” he said. “I had a little more jump.”

Allison leads the Kings with 38 points in 45 games, well off the pace he set last season in scoring a career-high 95 in 82 games with the Boston Bruins.

Acquired in an Oct. 24 trade, he has been utilized in several line combinations as Coach Andy Murray tries to find the right chemistry.

“I think the biggest difference from previous years is that I haven’t had a lot of big games,” said Allison, whose recent slowdown (10 points in his last 17 games) has thrown him off the point-a-game pace he had maintained into late December. “All my years in Boston I’d go through stretches where I’d get three or four points [in some games] and maybe in a 10-game period you’re getting 16, 17 points.

“Here, it’s kind of like one-two, one-two. Part of that is, we’ve had a lot of injuries. And I don’t really have a line right now. I’m playing with C.J. [Craig Johnson] and Nellie [Nelson Emerson], but some periods we only play one or two shifts together [because of penalties], then I’m with Bucky [Kelly Buchberger] and Herbie [Steve Heinze] sometimes.”

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The NHL rejected the Kings’ appeal to overturn an instigator penalty against Ryan Flinn in Monday night’s loss to the Philadelphia Flyers.... Adam Mair was reassigned to the Kings’ American Hockey League team at Manchester, N.H.

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TONIGHT

vs. Carolina, 7:30

Fox Sports Net, ESPN2

Site--Staples Center.

Radio--KSPN (1110).

Records--Kings 25-20-7-2, Hurricanes 23-19-11-5.

Record vs. Hurricanes--0-0-0-1.

Update--Mathieu Schneider, sidelined for 23 games in November and December after surgery to repair a hernia and torn abdominal muscle, returns to the King lineup after sitting out two games because of a shoulder strain.

Tickets--(888) 546-4752.

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Jerry Crowe