In Los Angeles, the Kings’ Quinton Byfield hit for a double on Saturday night in a 5-3 win over the visiting Calgary Flames. 
Byfield scored 61 seconds into the game to give the Kings a 1-0 lead, off a shot from the blue line.
Cam Talbot made 29 saves in the win.
The Kings improved to 19-7-4.
Calgary replied quickly on a goal from Rasmus Andersson at 2:47 for a 1-1 tie.
There was a Pierre-Luc Dubois sighting at 15:20 of the first when he scored just after a power play ended. The goal ended a 13-game goal drought, it was his sixth of the campaign.
Dubois was a bit defensive after the game.
“My job is just to play hockey, help this team win,” Dubois said. “Yeah, scoring goals, you can help your team out that way. You can help your team in other ways, winning face-offs and stuff like that.”
The Flames dropped to 14-15-5, snapping a three-game winning streak.
“It was frustrating,” Calgary’s Blake Coleman said. “We felt like we can play with these teams, and we can beat these teams, but that’s a few too many points [missed] on this stretch everybody’s talking about. I feel like we should have had two or three more wins on this stretch, and we left some points on the table.”
Coleman tied the game, 2-2, at 4:01 of the middle frame when he scored off an odd man rush for a shorthanded marker.
Alex Laferriere reclaimed the lead for LA at 6:28, 3-2.
“Laf is a young guy in the League, he’s got a lot to learn, but he’s doing a really good job for it being his first season,” Dubois said.
LA’s Trevor Moore scored midway through the middle frame for a 4-2 lead to the Kings.
“We had some opportunities, but they were those in tight kind of stuff around the net where goaltenders down low typically make those saves,” Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. “The one shot rebound is what you’re looking for a lot of times, the goal Blake scored for us.”
Coleman scored his second of the night at 7:18 of the third period to pull the Flames within one at 4-3.
Byfield picked up his double with 60 seconds left on the game clock when he scored into an empty net for the 5-3 final count.
“Well, he did what he does now,” McLellan said. “He skates. We saw him win the race, but it was also off an icing.”
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Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves in the loss.
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