In Los Angeles, Jonathan Quick made 21 saves, and the Kings downed the visiting Colorado Avalanche, 3-1, on Monday night.
LA has won six straight.
Mikey Anderson picked up his first NHL career goal in the win.
“I’m not sure what the room was like when I wasn’t here, but it’s a lot more fun to win,” Anderson said. “You kind of hear that from all the guys right now, and obviously winning is going to bring better vibes for the group. This little run of games now has been pretty fun, and we’ve got to try to keep it going.”
Austin Wagner and Anderson staked the Kings to a 2-0 lead.
“I thought we looked mentally tired,” Gabriel Landeskog said. “I thought we were sloppy, especially in the first. … I liked the way we battled and I liked that we battled all the way to the end.”
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare had the lone goal for the Avs.
“It’s a tough way to start because they came after us hard, obviously knowing that we played last night, and they worked,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar said. “They worked extremely hard on the forecheck, they turned over a lot of pucks, and we just didn’t look crisp and sharp, so we dug ourselves a hole.”
Alex Iafallo put the game away with a breakaway in the third period.
“They deserved those goals in the beginning, even if it was a lucky bounce. They worked for it,” Bellemare said. “Then I feel like we could have packed it in and felt sorry for ourselves, but we battled all the way to the end.”
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Pavel Francouz made 32 saves in the loss.
“We were expecting a tough game,” Francouz said. “They played great defense, and they were really dangerous in the offensive zone too. So good for this team that, even when they didn’t start the season well, they came back and they’re playing very hard.”
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