![]() On another road victory and the team’s continued success playing away from home He was the fresh player in the line change and he went and found a loose puck and was able to put it into a scoring area and obviously Kopi did the rest production. On the play of Arthur Kaliyev, leading to Kopitar’s game-opening goalĪn important component of a power play is the retrieval, so there’s always going to be shots and there’s going to be plays made, but your opportunity to score is often on that re-attack and the ability to go get something loose and pull a penalty kil out a position and Arthur did that. He, again tonight, all he did was increase our confidence in him and he in us. Coming out of training camp, he was very highly thought of, I think I mentioned that to you this morning and we felt we had three goaltenders that can play at any time. ![]() On if there was any surprise in seeing the performance of David Rittich here tonight Unfortunately at the end, we took the penalty and they got the power-play goal, that’s not the way we wanted to end it, but we’ll take the win, we’ll get home and try to get some rest and get ready for tomorrow. We were a little more creative offensively maybe then we were against Seattle, but the game management skills were there. I thought we checked as tight as we did against Seattle, we didn’t give up much. On if he felt there were stylistic similarities between tonight’s win and the win over Seattle It was good to see, but they came out really hot off the bat. Yeah, they came out really flying out there, pressuring all over the ice, I thought we were not ready for a bit then we matched their speed and took over after that first goal. On the start to tonight’s game and how the Kings took over after opening the scoring We have a lot of great players on two units, so we have confidence in any unit that goes out there and we’re doing a good job. On the performance of the power play as of late, with goals in six straight games Yeah, I just made a line change with Q and just saw a rebound, quickly saw Kopi and just passed it to him. On the play he made for an assist on Anze Kopitar’s power-play goal I thought we got back to the game that we played when we played well during that win streak. I thought we played hard, got our game back, I thought every line had an impact on the game. On the takeaways he had from tonight’s victory Hear from Rittich, Kaliyev and Head Coach Todd McLellan following tonight’s game. Defenseman Jacob MacDonald got the hosts on the board with a power-play goal, bringing us to the final score of 4-1. With just 79 seconds left in the game, with the outcome no longer in doubt, San Jose ended the shutout bid for Kings goaltender David Rittich. With San Jose on a late power play, and the goaltender pulled for the extra attacker, the Kings iced the game with a late insurance goal from forward Trevor Lewis, who picked the empty net for his fifth goal of the season. Spence and Kopitar tallied the assists on the play, Kopitar’s second point of the evening. Stationed at the left point, defenseman Jordan Spence sent a shot through traffic, towards the net, with Laferriere getting a deflection from the left-hand circle for his fourth goal of the season. Just 70 seconds later, forward Alex Laferriere extended the lead to three goals. Forward Kevin Fiala executed a spinning feed through the neutral zone to Moore, who gained the offensive zone with possession and snapped his shot past San Jose goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen on the blocker side for the two-goal advantage. Kopitar’s goal was his 13th of the season, second-most on the Kings.Įarly in the middle stanza, forward Trevor Moore became the first Kings player this season to reach 15 goals, as he extended his team’s lead to 2-0. Skating on the power play, forward Arthur Kaliyev was first to a puck behind the San Jose net and quickly fed forward Anze Kopitar in front, where the captain buried for the third straight game. The visitors got the scoring started late in the first period with the lone goal from the opening 20 minutes. The LA Kings improved to 13-1-1 away from home this season as they skated to a 4-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday evening at SAP Center.
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