In Boston Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Kings brought their “A” game and every other manner of game to TR Garden in a 9-2 rout of the Bruins.
Milan Lucic made his first visit to Boston as a King and scored once and added an assist in the win.
The Boston fans saluted Lucic with a standing ovation.
Jonathan Quick was busy making 35 saves in win over Bruins – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“You think about the reaction and the excitement from the crowd and the crowd was definitely great to me here tonight,” Lucic said. “I can’t appreciate the fan support enough. So thanks to them for making this a special night for me individually. And thanks to my teammates for getting a big win for us to start off this road trip.”
Nine different skaters scored for the kings with Lucic, Jeff Carter, Marian Gaborik, Andy Andreoff, Drew Doughty, Dwight King, Trevor Lewis, Luke Schenn and Dustin Brown adding to the scoresheet.
“It’s huge. We haven’t been playing well lately. And we came on this road trip talking about it a lot, how important this first game was and how important the road trip as a whole was,” Doughty said. “So this is the right start, this is how we wanted it to happen and now it’s on to the Islanders.”
Los Angeles had been 2-4-0 in their six games and were not playing well and feeling some heat from the Anaheim Ducks.
Brad Marchand and Tyler Randell scored for the Bruins.
“A lot of work to be done,” Bruins center Patrice Bergeron said. “It’s one of those things where we have 29 games left and we knew we had some work to do, but we have, I guess, a lot of work to do. So hopefully we have plenty of character in here to kind of realize that we’ve got to be much better and work on things we saw today. And I think we all know in here what those things are. It happened a lot of times this year, where we really lacked focus, but tonight was that one, I guess it topped it all.”
Jonathan Quick was busy despite the lopsided score and had to make 35 saves for the win.
“You know what? They still had some good chances and Quick had to come up with some big saves early,” Doughty said. “Eventually we started getting the bounces and that kind of just put them away and put them out of the game.”
Tuukka Rask started the game and was pulled after the Kings made the score 5-1 in the second period; he had 27 saves in the effort.
Jonas Gustavsson was sent in to mop up and made 21 saves, yielding four goals.
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