In Los Angeles, the Kings’ Calvin Petersen made 19 saves in a 4-1 win over the St Louis Blues on Wednesday night.
Mike Hoffman scored the Blues’ only goal.
St Louis is 0-2-3 in their last five.
“There’s no tricks or magic that’s going to get you out of this hole,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said. “You just got to come together as a hockey team on the ice and got to be able to work together out there and do it together. And that’s the key.”
Drew Doughty and Carl Grundstrom scored 58 seconds apart in the first period to give the gives a 2-0 lead.
“A couple of good shifts led to that drawn penalty, and then our power play has been good all year (10th in NHL at 25.7 percent), and we cashed in,” LA’s Trevor Moore said.
Moore pushed the lead to 3-0 later in the opening frame.
“It was just good forechecking work by all three of us, and then when you get them a little tired out there, you’re able to capitalize on that,” Moore said.
Anze Kopitar added an empty-net goal with under two minutes left on the clock in the third period.
“We didn’t kill any plays, and then in front of our net we’re soft, letting guys beat us back to our net, just things like that,” Berube said. “They’re more hungry around our net than we were.”
LA improved to 12-10-6.
Jordan Binnington made 20 saves in the loss.
“We have to look at how do we have jump, how do we start clear and fast and intense? It’s just killing us right now,” the Blues’ Ryan O’Reilly said. “You see us as a group, we don’t have that jump and that trust in our game right now.”
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