Kings Eventually Wear Down Division Leading Anaheim, Scoring 3 In The 3rd And Win Going Away 5-2, Jumping To 7th In The West
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By Beth Harris • Associated Press •
Slava Voynov scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 Monday night for their fourth consecutive victory while snapping the Ducks’ six-game winning streak.
Dustin Brown added a goal and his 200th career assist, and Anze Kopitar had three assists to help the Kings win for the sixth time in seven games. Jonathan Quick stopped 24 shots.
The Pacific Division-leading Ducks, who had come from behind in all six of their recent wins, twice owned one-goal leads, but fell short of tying the franchise record for consecutive victories. They had won 10 of 11.
Notes: The Kings have beaten the Ducks four straight at Staples Center. … The Ducks won the first meeting 7-4 in Anaheim on Feb. 2. … Ducks RW Teemu Selanne played in his 100th career game against the Kings. He is Anaheim’s career scoring leader against them with 52 goals and 66 assists. … Penner played in his 499th career NHL game. … The teams will meet twice more in April.
POSTGAME QUOTES
Darryl Sutter
Well it was a tight game going into the third, right? Their team played last night, so you’re hoping to have a little bit – a little bit more than they do. It’s simple with the schedule as such, and you hear other teams talking about it – back-to-backs are hard on the guys that played the night before.” More here…
Drew Doughty
“We constantly kept saying how important these two points were, division game, team that’s in second place and team that’s hot. That was the first time, in the third period, I felt like we were clicking like we did last year.” More here…
Jonathan Quick
“I think we outworked them in the third. Maybe, who knows, they played last night against Colorado. So maybe that played a factor. You know the first two periods were heavy. They were very physical and had a lot of pace. So you know when you’re playing back-to-backs sometimes it’s tough to play that style of game for 60 minutes. And we were a little more fresh I think coming off a recovery day yesterday, and we won the twenty minutes at the end, and that is what it took to win the game.” More here…
Jake Muzzin
I’ve been working a lot with Johnny (John Stevens) on little deception plays, and Dewey’s helped me out a lot here with talk on going back for pucks and with the goalies, so all the little stuff adds up and in games like this it goes well.” More here…
POSTGAME READING
NHL.com
In an impressive conjuring of the aggressive and methodical style from last season’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Los Angeles Kings put on a third period that finally curbed their Southern California rivals. Not even Swedish sensation Viktor Fasth could stop the Kings from pouring in two goals in a two-minute span for a 5-2 victory Monday in a game that lived up to every bit of its hype.
INSIDE THE KINGS
Might there be a rivalry here? Finally. The Kings and the Ducks actually battled like edgy neighbors Monday night at Staples Center. The teams were each sizzling going into the game, adding spice to a matchup that so often in the past yielded more smoke than fire, more talk than deeds.
LA TIMES
Not so Fasth. The Kings became the first team to smudge the previously unblemished record of Ducks goalie, newcomer Viktor Fasth, who had recorded eight victories in his first eight NHL starts. It may have been only the 17th game of this lockout-shortened season for both teams, but the Kings’ 5-2 victory against the Ducks on Monday night at Staples Center had all the trappings of a playoff contest. It was the Kings’ fourth straight victory; they have won six of their last seven. The Ducks lost for the first time in seven games.
OC REGISTER
Maybe the Ducks need to go back to playing from behind. The Ducks took two leads in the second period but couldn’t make either stand up against the resurgent Kings, who used third-period goals by young defensemen Slava Voynov and Jake Muzzin to break a tie in their 5-2 victory Monday night at Staples Center. “They’re a good team but so are we,” Ducks goalie Viktor Fasth said. “We really wanted to win this game. It didn’t end up like that. We have to get back and work harder even next game.”
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POSTGAME VIDEO
CONDENSED GAME
NHL TONIGHT ANALYSYS
NOLAN VS. SOURAY
SPORTSNET RECAP
PENNER INTERVIEW
PATRICK O’NEAL WITH JON ROSEN
First of all: LOVE the title – nice play on words.
Second of all: thanks for all the links. This will have to be my reading at work tomorrow as it is late right now.
Good morning
The Kings played the 3rd period tonite like they played in The second round vs The Blues, they finished checks and forechecked like Demons until they zapped the will out of a Ducks team that has been playing very well and has been fnding ways to win his season early on…VERY IMPRESSIVE WIN.
Also, off topic, I wanna thank Frank Robledo at EA Sports Management for a wonderfull time in his suites loaded with big wigs. Frank was gracious and upfront as usual, and full of fantastic and witty anecdotes and..uh..er, uh, wait WTF! That wasnt an authorized Jon Rosen LAKingsInsider event !
@Benedict Arnold is your new handle?
You and Fred giving courtesy reach arounds?
Great win. Even greater comment.
We beat the feathers off those mother Duckers tonight! All is well in the Kingdom and our future is looking brighter every day!
Nice statement game indeed. The Champs are back.
WOOOT..I really thought the Kings was going to lose after the 1st period……So Happy that the Kings was happy enough to give Fasth his first lost in Regulation too!!!
What a exciting game!Kings are looking they are back…They still need improvements tho..
Yes agreed!
Our Kings are looking much better, and you’re right, improvement is still needed. Beating the Quack did feel really good tho!
That penalty kill after Voynov’s delay of game penalty was HUGE. Going down 3-1 would have been disastrous.
Love what Nolan did to Souray. Souray looked awefully beat up by the end of the 3rd period. Voynov still leading our defense in a big way. Kopitar looks officially back. Muzzin has to use that shot more … nasty indeed.
As far as still needing improvement … yes we still have 3 starting defensemen out.
Souray started the night real mouthy and chippy. He finished with a good taste of humble pie served by the Cup champs.
Souray was flapping his lips from the start. Tried to get Carter to go then made the stupid mistake of wacking Nolon with his stick. Nolon commenced to letting the old man eat his words. You noticed how messed up his face was in the third. Great game kings.
Actually, if you look just a moment before Souray whacked Nolan with his stick, Nolan baited him by taking a whack at the back of Souray’s legs. Then Nolan purposely skated into a position where Souray would be tempted to do something back.
Nolan set him up big time. That alone was awesome, but then to kick Souray’s ass on top of it was just icing on the cake. End result. We lose a 10 minute a game 4th line energy guy and the Ducks lose their top defensemen for 5 minutes.
The dux facade of a defense will really be exposed during their March schedule.
Maybe they should buy the game’ “Clue’”, so they can have one.
Slowh (fasth) will come back to earth after he goes around the conference the 2nd time.
Hey, aholers and gayward, where was bonino the “KINGS killer”?
He was -1 and 3 for 11 in the faceoffs.
I can’t decide what those 2 do worse–try to call the play-by-play,
or try to referee the game as they try to call play-by-play
There were so many times I wanted to punch them both when I was watching the Ducks’ telecast replay. They were awful and now I know why Bob.Miller is a Hall of Fame announcer – cuz he’s the best, fairest and most interesting play-by-play guy to listen to (ok, my opinion is only slightly biased)
I love the way the Kings are starting to look like they did on their trip to the Cup. but what I don’t like is, it took them until the 3rd period to start playing their style. I know, I know, the Pucks are the 2nd best in the NHL and 1st in our Division and Conference, I just hope the Kings don’t start waiting unti the 3rd period to erase the opponent. Where’s Willie? I hear Marinez will be back soon.
Willie is getting super secret medical treatments on his knee. I saw a Kings team match the Ducks intense onslaught for 2 periods before overwhelming them in the 3rd. The Ducks are no joke and tried to exploit a still-vulnerable Kings defense until they ran out of gas. There’s no question the Kings are still a work in progress.
Marinez, he’s the new D-man with the great shot, sorry I meant Martinez.