In Los Angeles, Antti Raanta made 43 saves for the Arizona Coyotes in a 3-2 win over the Kings.
Anze Kopitar and Nikolai Prokhorkin scored for the Kings.
“Even though they had a lot of shots, I was able to see many, many of the shots,” Raanta said. “There’s a couple where you need to have a little bit of luck, and we were able to have that luck today.”
Phil Kessel and Lawson Crouse scored for the Coyotes.
“We’re happy to get the two points,” Vinnie Hinostroza said.. “All year, both our goalies (Raanta and Darcy Kuemper) have been unreal. Anytime either of them is in net, we have all the confidence in the world in them.”
The win pushed the the Coyotes record to 14-8-2.
“It was a power play breakout, I was lucky to get inside and he (Keller) made a great play back. That one wasn’t too hard,” Kessel said. “It was nice to get one of those.”
Christian Fischer had an empty net goal for the Coyotes to make it 3-1 before Prokhorkin scored with the extra attacker.
“It was a much better effort than what we saw Monday in Arizona, I thought we created more and we played with more authority,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “We didn’t start that way, but from later in the first period on we had what we needed to give ourselves a chance.”
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Jonathan Quick made 16 saves in the loss.
“I thought we played well, especially in the last 40 minutes. We were aggressive on the forecheck, turned pucks over and threw them on net, but sometimes they don’t go in,” LA’s Blake Lizotte said.
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