In Los Angeles Saturday, four different Kings, Trevor Lewis , Jeff Carter, Alec Martinez, and Marian Gaborik, scored in LA’s 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators.
“I fanned on the first one,” Martinez said. “Tanner [Pearson] made a really good play up to me. I just tried to shoot it as hard as I can, get it out of the net, and it was a gratuitous bounce but I’ll take it. It was a really good screen in front, so tip of the cap to them.”
Peter Budaj made 19 saves for the win.
“The past few games we didn’t get bounces and the execution that we wanted,” Budaj said. “The power play built momentum with big goals. It’s a good team on the other side and we got good goals off the hop, so they were playing from behind, and it’s a little different game when you have a little bit of a lead.”
Two early power play goals from the Kings left the Sens on their heels the rest of the game.
“We put ourselves in a deep hole right off the bat, so it’s a difficult job to come back,” Senators coach Guy Boucher said. “But the effort was there, the guys battled hard.”
Ottawa cut the deficit to 2-1 on a goal from Zack Smith but then yielded another goal before the end of the middle frame to take whatever rally there was out of the bench.
“I think the biggest deflator was the end of the second period,” Boucher said. “We’ve played really good in one-goal games, so we just needed to keep it at one.”
Mike Condon made 15 saves in the loss.
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The win was Kings head coach Darryl Sutter’s 200th with the team.
“Power play wasn’t the difference of the game. The difference of the game was the ability to kill penalties,” Sutter said of the game. “We killed three or four, the first two were not good penalties that we took. It could just [as] easily be talk about scoring two on the five-minute, saying, ‘Well, we took a couple bad ones, but scored two.’ That’s the difference tonight.”
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