In Los Angeles, Pheonix Copley made 18 saves, and the Kings shut out the Montreal Canadiens, 4-0, on Saturday. 
It was the fifth straight win for LA.
“Right now we’re playing a good team game, so we’ll just keep it rolling,” Copley said.
LA held the Canadiens to one shot on goal in the first period, and that was a clearing attempt on penalty kill.
“I think our neutral zone has been phenomenal,” Kings defenseman Andreas Englund said. “That makes it easier for us to break out because they have to dump the puck.”
Montreal dropped to 9-10-2.
“I felt we competed. I felt like we worked,” Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis said. “If anything, it’s that offensive pace they play with, in terms of getting pucks back. In our [defensive] zone, when they lose the puck, they’re hunting to get it back and there’s not much room.”
The Kings took a 1-0 lead at 15:38 of the first on a strike by Carl Grundstrom.
Trevor Moore scored at 9:55 of the middle frame to push the lead to 2-0.
Trevor Lewis, scored at 3:14 of the third to expand the advantage to 3-0.
“That’s what we’re chasing, that’s what we want to look like,” St. Louis said. “When we do that, we’re hard to play against. We’ve just got to find more consistency and play with that pace when we lose pucks.”
Moore hit for his double at 13:26 for the 4-0 final.
“We stuck with our game,” Moore said. “A couple turnovers there in the second, but other than that, it was shift after shift doing what we wanted to do, staying patient and we got the win.”
Jake Allen made 26 saves in the loss.
“They give you no room to breathe,” Allen said of Los Angeles. “When you have time and space against those guys, it’s totally different than you would against another team. They play probably the best team game I’ve seen in the League … It’s really impressive to watch.”
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