Arizona
Los Angeles Kings rally for late win over Arizona Coyotes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anze Kopitar scored twice, together with the go-ahead objective within the third interval, and the Los Angeles Kings rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday evening.
Trevor Moore, Carl Grundstrom and Kevin Fiala additionally tallied objectives for the Kings, who had dropped 5 of six coming into the sport, together with a loopy 9-8 extra time defeat towards Seattle on Tuesday.
Jonathan Fast stopped 18 pictures.
Kopitar gave the Kings their first lead 5:22 into the third interval on a 4-on-4 scenario. Kopitar skated the puck into the zone, deked J.J. Moser and beat Karel Vejmelka far aspect for his fourth objective within the final 4 video games.
Los Angeles had a pair of power-play objectives, marking the primary time since March of 2017 it has scored a number of occasions with the person benefit in three straight video games.
Matias Maccelli had a objective and an help for Arizona whereas Christian Fischer and Nick Bjugstad additionally scored. Patrik Nemeth had a pair of assists.
Vejmelka made 27 saves as Arizona dropped to 4-5-2 on its 14-game highway journey.
The Coyotes had a 3-1 lead 8 minutes into the second interval on objectives by Maccelli and Bjugstad earlier than the Kings rallied. Moore scored on the facility play at 9:09 and Grundstrom evened it with 1:31 to go within the interval with a snap shot from the faceoff circle that went between Vejmelka’s legs.
QUICK RESPONSE
Fischer opened the scoring at 12:45 of the primary interval when he took benefit of Sean Durzi’s turnover within the Kings’ zone and scored on a breakaway for Arizona’s third short-handed objective of the season.
The Kings evened it 36 seconds later whereas nonetheless on the facility play as Kopitar buried a slap shot from the precise faceoff circle.
ICE CHIPS
Coyotes: Arizona is tied with New Jersey for many short-handed objectives on the highway with three. …
Kings: Samuel Fagemo was known as up for the primary time this season and picked up his first NHL level with the primary help on Grundstrom’s objective. Fagemo, a second-round decide in 2019, performed in 4 video games final season. … Kevin Fiala had an help on Kopitar’s objective for his twentieth of the season. He reached that mark in his twenty sixth sport with the Kings, making him the fifth-fastest in franchise historical past to succeed in that.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: Journey to Vancouver on Saturday.
Kings: Host Carolina on Saturday.
