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  • Kings win 3rd straight game, beat rival Ducks 4-1

    Kings win 3rd straight game, beat rival Ducks 4-1

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    LOS ANGELES — Alex Iafallo, Viktor Arvidsson and Kevin Fiala scored as the Los Angeles Kings beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 on Tuesday night for their third straight win.

    “Stringing a few together, that’s what good teams do. And to finally get a little consistency there is nice,” Kings defenseman Sean Durzi said.

    The Kings won three straight games for the second time this season, and Pheonix Copley made 24 saves to join teammate Jonathan Quick in winning three consecutive starts. Quick’s wins came Nov. 5-10 during a four-game win streak.

    “It doesn’t look like he’s panicking at any point. He’s just making saves, and he’s getting up and doing it all over again. … I think that makes us feel comfortable,” coach Todd McLellan said of Copley, who improved to 5-1-0.

    Drew Doughty had a power-play goal, and Adrian Kempe added two assists as the Kings took opener of the three-game Freeway Faceoff rivalry series.

    Frank Vatrano scored on the power play and Lukas Dostal allowed four goals on 41 shots as the Ducks failed in their bid to get their first three-game winning streak of the season.

    “We had a good thing going there, a couple wins in a row coming into a rivalry game. We would have liked to have a better showing than that tonight, but give them credit. They did a good job capitalizing on their opportunities, and that was the difference in the game,” Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler said.

    The Kings took charge in the second period, converting during a strong stretch of play on a slap shot by Doughty with a second left on a power play at 6:46.

    Vatrano scored on the rebound of a shot by Kevin Shattenkirk on the man advantage, but Iafallo restored the lead 2-1 with 20.4 seconds to go in the second by scoring off Phillip Danault’s pass after an assertive possession behind the net.

    Iafallo said there was a definite carryover from how the second ended to how the third started. Arvidsson extended the margin to 3-1 early, finishing off a rush for his first point in two games after missing two games for paternity leave.

    “Just trying to stay on the forecheck and stay in on D,” Iafallo said. “Going at the end of a period like that, you just see it, you want to do it in the next period after.”

    Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said his team got too caught up in trying to make amends for Iafallo’s late goal.

    “We came off the bench with offense on our brain instead of coming in with support, so the game, to me, came down to a miscommunication and a lack of focus coming off the bench,” Eakins said.

    Fiala capped the scoring with a strong individual effort, shaking off Vatrano and Nathan Beaulieu to score on a breakaway.

    “I wonder the fact that he was sandwiched between a couple players allowed him to stay on his feet, but he’s very strong and determined. It’s a skill that if you want to be a top scorer, you’ve got to have that, and he’s got it right now,” McLellan said.

    WORTH NOTING

    Doughty has two goals and 18 assists through 34 games, becoming the first Kings defenseman to get 20 points in 15 straight seasons. … Los Angeles has scored a power-play goal in eight straight home games, its longest run since Feb. 17 to March 17, 2007. … Ducks D Urho Vaakanainen did not play because of illness, forcing a move away from the 11-forward, seven-defenseman lineup the team had been using recently. Ducks F Justin Kirkland made his NHL debut after being called up from the AHL earlier in the day.

    UP NEXT

    Ducks: Host Minnesota on Wednesday night.

    Kings: Host Calgary on Thursday night.

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  • Giroux scores on OT breakaway, Senators beat Kings 3-2

    Giroux scores on OT breakaway, Senators beat Kings 3-2

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    LOS ANGELES — Claude Giroux scored on a breakaway 20 seconds into overtime, Brady Tkachuk had a goal and an assist and the Ottawa Senators beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 on Sunday night.

    Alex DeBrincat had a power-play goal, Cam Talbot made 25 saves and the Senators won consecutive games for the first time since a four-game winning streak in late October.

    “When you play well, and you look after the game and you’re happy with your game but you didn’t get the result, it’s easy to go off page and start doing your own thing,” Giroux said. “But it’s good to know that we played the way we wanted to tonight and we have the result, so we know it works.”

    Arthur Kaliyev scored two power-play goals for the Kings, winners of just one of their past five games. Kaliyev became the fifth Los Angeles player in the past decade to score twice on the man advantage in one period.

    “He’s a great shot, and he knows where to be, and we just try to find him,” Kings forward Viktor Arvidsson said. “Today, he buried two, and it was good.”

    Jonathan Quick allowed three goals on 39 shots, and Phillip Danault had two assists, but Los Angeles did pick up at least one point for the seventh time in its past nine home games.

    Giroux waited out Quick for his ninth goal on the breakaway set up by Tim Stutzle’s stretch pass. Stutzle had two assists, while Giroux had an assist for his fifth multipoint game of the season.

    “I’m pretty sure it was a back-end saucer pass all the way down there. The whole goal was special,” Ottawa defenseman Thomas Chabot said. “G, what a move. And, obviously, it was big for us. It’s a lot of confidence for our group, and to see that we can do it that way, it’s big for us.”

    Tkachuk’s 99th career goal was the only scoring of the first period. He jammed the puck in at the near post after Chabot’s shot deflected wide and caromed off the boards to put Ottawa up 1-0 at 4:55.

    The power play became a factor in the second period, with Kaliyev striking twice with the man advantage to tie it. His first came midway through the period, but DeBrincat had his own power-play goal less than two minutes later to give the Senators a 2-1 lead.

    Kaliyev then unleashed a blistering wrist shot from the right circle to tie it with 2:25 left in the middle period. It was his first career game with multiple power-play goals, and his six tallies on special teams leads Los Angeles.

    “We needed something because we sure didn’t start the game very well,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “Power play, obviously, gave us some life. It gave us a chance to crawl back into the game. For as poorly as we were playing, it didn’t get away on us, so that was a good thing.”

    UNUSUAL STOPPAGE

    There was a lengthy delay midway through the first after a deflected shot by Kings D Sean Durzi cracked the kick plate along the bottom of the boards on the Zamboni tunnel before arena personnel were able to replace it.

    WORTH NOTING

    Kings F Gabe Vilardi, the team’s leading scorer with 11 goals, did not play because of an upper-body injury. He is day to day.

    UP NEXT

    Senators: Host the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.

    Kings: Host Seattle on Tuesday night.

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  • Jaret Anderson-Dolan help Kings beat Sharks 5-2

    Jaret Anderson-Dolan help Kings beat Sharks 5-2

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    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jaret Anderson-Dolan had a goal and an assist for his first two points of the season and the Los Angeles Kings beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Friday night.

    Phillip Dananult, Victor Arvidsson, Anze Kopitar and Rasmus Kupari also scored for the Kings, and Jonathan Quick made 29 saves.

    “I think we’re all just working, doing the little things right and it was paying off,” Anderson-Dolan said. “It turned into opportunities and we capitalized on a couple of those tonight.”

    Kevin Lebanc and Alexander Barabanov scored for the Sharks, and James Reimer stopped 24 shots.

    “It’s unfortunate that my performance wasn’t up to par tonight,” Reimer said.

    Anderson-Dolan scored his first goal of the season midway through the first period with a shot that beat Reimer to the glove side.

    “Feels great. It’s been a while so it definitely felt good,” Anderson-Dolan said.

    Anderson-Dolan also assisted on Kupari’s goal early in the third.

    “I thought our first period got better as it went on, and then they got the power play,” Sharks coach David Quinn said. “And you know, listen, that’s a good team. They’re hard. They’re quick. At times we matched them and at times we didn’t.”

    Kings coach Todd McLellan was thrilled with his fourth line’s performance.

    “I couldn’t be happier for that group. That line played their best game of the season together. They were firm, they were hard, and they won a lot of puck battles,” McLellan said.

    INJURY UPDATE

    Reimer returned to the lineup after a one-game absence.

    Sharks defenseman Radim Simek was activated off IR and played his first game since Nov. 13.

    UP NEXT:

    Kings: Host Ottawa on Sunday night.

    Sharks: Host Vancouver on Sunday.

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  • Mark Stone’s last-minute goal sends Vegas past Kings 4-3

    Mark Stone’s last-minute goal sends Vegas past Kings 4-3

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    LOS ANGELES — Mark Stone scored the tiebreaking goal with 24.9 seconds to play, and the Vegas Golden Knights punctuated coach Bruce Cassidy’s debut with a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.

    Arthur Kaliyev tied it for the Kings with 7:02 left, but the Knights capitalized in the waning seconds after the Kings made an ill-advised move up the ice instead of running out the clock for overtime. Chandler Stephenson controlled a turnover at mid-ice and carried it in for Stone, who whipped a shot past Jonathan Quick to cap Vegas’ three-goal third period.

    “We had our breakdowns, but that’s just learning curves,” Stone said. “If we can cut those in half, we’ll get it done. Power play got a little talking-to in between periods there. We stepped up for it in the third.”

    William Karlsson had a goal and an assist as the Golden Knights put a whopping 51 shots on Quick, including 20 in the final period. Jonathan Marchessault and Jack Eichel also scored, while Alex Pietrangelo had assists on Vegas’ last two goals.

    Cassidy spent the past six seasons with the Bruins, who fired him in June even though Boston made the playoffs in every year of his tenure. The Golden Knights hired him eight days later to get the NHL’s model expansion franchise back to the postseason.

    “I thought we showed a lot of resilience,” Cassidy said. “We kept pushing back whenever something didn’t go our way. … For a coach, you’re always worried that when you don’t know your team that well — it’s our first league game — what will happen when things don’t go well? It’s always, to me, a sign of good character in the room when a team is resilient, so that’s a big plus for me no matter how the score turned out.”

    Logan Thompson made 27 saves in his first game since becoming Vegas’ first-choice goalie in the absence of injured Robin Lehner and Laurent Brossoit.

    Quick made 47 saves while starting on opening night for the 14th time in the Kings’ last 15 seasons. Gabe Vilardi and Adrian Kempe also scored for Los Angeles, but coach Todd McLellan lamented his team’s poor game management and overall defensive intensity while saying the Kings’ last-minute turnover “makes no sense” and “was just stupidity.”

    “We’ve preached and preached about it,” McLellan said. “Sometimes you’ve got to get hit pretty hard with a two-by-four. Maybe this was it. … That is all game management. That’s getting engaged and being ready to go. Their team did a better job of it than we did tonight.”

    Vegas’ impressive entrance into the NHL in 2017 coincided with the Kings’ decline from the best times in franchise history, but the momentum shifted last season between two teams separated by about 3 1/2 hours of desert freeway.

    Los Angeles ended its three-year playoff drought and stretched Edmonton to seven games in the first round after finishing the regular season five points ahead of the Golden Knights, who missed the postseason for the first time.

    In their first meeting of the new season, the Knights showed they’ve got more than enough offense to break through the defense-minded Kings.

    “We wasted an outstanding goaltending night by not at least getting a point,” McLellan said. “That’s disappointing.”

    Eichel put Vegas ahead early in the third with a rebound goal, but Kempe tied it 2 1/2 minutes later with a one-timer on a sharp pass from captain Anze Kopitar, who is beginning his 17th season with the Kings.

    After Eichel and Kempe traded goals early in the third, Karlsson expertly redirected Pietrangelo’s soft pass from the point with 12:43 to play. Los Angeles answered moments after a power play expired, with Kaliyev hitting an open net after a scramble in front.

    QUIET DEBUTS

    Phil Kessel didn’t score in the 35-year-old forward’s Vegas debut, and prolific Swiss forward Kevin Fiala didn’t score in his first game with the Kings.

    BARNSTORMING BETTMAN

    NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman attended the game and said he was pleased with the renovations and additions to the Kings’ downtown arena. Although the league has no active expansion plan, Bettman said he has received numerous inquiries from parties interested in getting a new franchise in the NHL, which currently has a symmetrical 32 teams.

    Bettman also said the league is still investigating the separate sexual assault allegations against Tampa Bay’s Ian Cole and the 2018 Canadian world junior championships team.

    UP NEXT

    Golden Knights: Host Blackhawks on Thursday.

    Kings: Host Kraken on Thursday.

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