In Los Angeles, the Kings scored four times in the opening stanza, and once in the second period for a 5-0 lead over the visiting St Louis Blues on Saturday night.
A so what goal form the Blues in the third period ruined a shutout bid in a 5-1 decision to the Kings.
Cam Talbot made 29 saves in the win.
LA improved to 10-3-3.
Quinton Byfield got the offense going at 2:25 of the first when he scored off a power play for a 1-0 lead to the Kings.
“I think we had a really strong period, got off to a good start,” Byfield said. “It always comes from the start. The message is get on them early, as many shots as you can and work them down low, and we ended up scoring a lot.”
Just 19 seconds later, Blake Lizotte pushed the advantage to 2-0.
“Any shift after a goal is very important,” Thomas said. “Got to play the right way. You got to get the puck in deep, and even if you don’t create anything, just got to try and get the momentum back a little bit. It’s a big key for us that we need to get after.”
Adrian Kempe stretched the lead to 3-0 at 13:37 off a shorthanded strike.
“It starts with us leaders,” St. Louis’ Robert Thomas said. “We’ve got to step up. We’ve got to play better, and it falls on our shoulders.”
The Blues dropped to 8-7-1.
“All my life I’ve been kind of a points guy, a producer, and always wanted the puck on my stick,” Byfield said. “I just got to get back to that. I came in with a different mindset this year, you know, try to be more assertive this year. I think the confidence is really, really high right now.”
Pierre-Luc Dubois scored his fifth of the campaign at 15:20 to balloon the advantage to 4-0 after 20 minutes.
“You always want to score as many goals as you can, but the momentum just took us,” Byfield said. “I think everyone was just feeling it tonight. Everyone was making really solid plays, safe game management, like everyone was doing the right things out there. We just came out hot and it was a lot of fun.”
In the middle frame, Kevin Fiala with 24 seconds left in the period for a 5-0 lead headed to the third.
Talbot’s shutout bid was ruined at 16:06 when Jake Neighbours for the 5-1 final.
Jordan Binnington surrendered five goals, and made 26 saves in the loss.
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