You might be excused to have thought Adrian Kempe was the only goal scorer for the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.
In the second period, Kempe scored to give the Kings a 1-0 lead over the visiting Buffalo Sabres.
It was Kempe’s fifth straight goal, he scored the final four in the Kings; win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
“Obviously, he’s on fire. I touched his stick a little bit to get some good luck,” said Los Angeles forward Phillip Danault, who had three assists.
The shorthanded goal was his final of the streak as the rest of the Kings lineup got in the act of building a 5-0 lead over the Sabres, en route to a 5-2 win.
LA scored three more goals in the second period to take a 4-0 lead into the third.
“We kind of came from nowhere there in the second, but somehow we figured it out and just kept going,” Viktor Arvidsson said.
Pheonix Copley made 27 saves in the LA win.
The Kings improved 30-18-7.
LA’s Arthur Kaliyev scored off the power to push the lead to 2-0.
Sean Walker struck at 18:41 for a 3-0 advantage, and Matt Roy ballooned the lead to 4-0 just 33 seconds later.
“Overall, it was 10, 15 minutes of collapse by us that cost us the game,” Buffalo forward Dylan Cozens said.
The Sabres dropped to 26-22-4 on their fourth straight loss (0-3-1).
“I think we kind of got frustrated a little bit, tried to do too much, and they capitalized on those opportunities,” Cozens said.
Arvidsson stretched the lead to 5-0 in the third period.
“You got to work your way through it,” Sabres coach Don Granato said of the team’s losing streak. “We have to compete and work, and you saw some time in the third period where that’s how we need to play.”
Cozens and Peyton Krebs (power play) scored in the third period to make the score a little more respectable at 5-2.
Craig Anderson made 23 saves in the Sabres loss.
“Goal-scorer gets hot, and just hot stick, and it goes in,” Arvidsson said. “I’ve been in those situations before, and it’s nice to be in that kind of groove.”
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