In Los Angeles, the visiting Colorado Avalanche scored in the first period tot take a 1-0 lead on the Kings, on Sunday night.
Josh Manson scored at 12:28 of the first to stake the Avs to the early 1-0 lead.
From there it was all LA as they reeled off four unanswered goals in a 4-1 win.
The Kings improved to 14-4-3.
Cam Talbot made 20 saves in the win.
Quinton Byfield scored a double for the Kings, his first coming at 9:03 of the middle frame to tie the game, 1-1.
Anze Kopitar set a franchise record for assists in the win.
“Sometimes you look at that list and the names that are on there, and it makes it very surreal just to be able to be on the same page with those guys, and I guess now passing them,” Kopitar said. “This has been my home, obviously, for quite a while, and I’m pretty much speechless.”
He picked up his double at 13:26 of the third for a 2-1 lead to the Kings.
Trevor Moore pushed the advantage to 3-1 at 14:22, of the third.
“We played to our game plan for the most part until 10 minutes left in the game,” Colorado’s Logan O’Connor said. “Our details got lax at the end there, and good teams are gonna find a way to capitalize, and that’s what they did to us.”
Drew Doughty hit an empty net with less than two minutes left on the game clock for the 4-1 final.
“Now he’s confident to to go in there,” coach Todd McLellan said of Byfield’s ability to attack the crease. “He has the ability to stand in and take a blow and still get a stick on a puck. Those were things he didn’t have when he first got here, not because he couldn’t do them, just he hadn’t experienced the different between junior and the NHL.”
The Avs dropped to 15-7-2.
“You could tell which team was the rested team in the third period, because they started to put the heat on us,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “They kind of took the game over there.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 34 saves on the night in the loss.
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