In Los Angeles, the Calgary Flames’ Jacob Markstrom made 40 saves in a 3-2 win over the Kings on Thursday night.
The Flames improved to 14-5-4.
The Flames have won 10 games on the road this season.
“I always found, of all the years that I’ve played, it’s always nice to get on the road early, just early on in the season or early on in the schedule, because it allows you to build that team chemistry and build that camaraderie that I’m talking about, and we’ve been able to do that so far,” Calgary’s Milan Lucic said. “And we’re just having fun playing the right way.”
Alex Iafallo and Alexander Edler scored for the Kings, but the Flames put up three goals between those two strikes.
“I think it always comes down to little things, the little details in a game, little mistakes here and there,” Edler said. “Whether it’s getting the puck behind them, turning the puck over here and there. If you do that too many times, eventually you’re going to get punched.”
The Kings dropped to 9-9-4, and are 1-4-3 in their last eight.
“I think it always comes down to little things, the little details in a game, little mistakes here and there,” Edler said. “Whether it’s getting the puck behind them, turning the puck over here and there. If you do that too many times, eventually you’re going to get punched.”
After Iafallo scored to give the Kings a 1-0 lead, the Flames’ Andrew Mangiapane tied it near the midway point of the first period.
Lucic put Calgary ahead, 2-1, with a power play strike late in the opening stanza.
“It just seems to be working, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Lucic said.
Matthew Tkachuk pushed the Calgary lead to 3-1 with a goal in the sixth minute of the middle frame.
“Power play was the difference in the game,” Calgary’s head coach Darryl Sutter said. “That second unit scored both those goals. Five-on-five, we had some guys who were not as effective as they should be.”
Edler scored late in the second period to cut the lead to 3-2.
“But I thought we managed the puck pretty good,” Sutter said. “Tried to get it as deep as we could. Try to manage their speed. They have a lot of speed on the outside, gain the line speed a lot. It was a problem for us all night, actually.”
Cal Petersen made 29 saves in the LA loss.
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