In Los Angeles, the Kings’ Calvin Petersen made 24 saves and defeated the Ottawa Senators, 3-2, after trailing 2-1 in the third period.
Martin Frk snapped a 2-2 tie with under five minutes left in the third for the winner.
Gabriel Vilardi had a goal and two points for LA.
“It’s selfish for me to say because I’m one of the new faces coming in, but we’ve won seven games,” Vilardi said. “That means we’re obviously doing something right. It feels pretty good to win hockey games. That’s what we want to do.”
Bobby Ryan and Jayce Hawryluk were the Senators strikers.
“When you start like that, that’s just a bonus,” Ryan said. “But after last night, I think we made a commitment to doing things correctly for the first 10 minutes and really making things simple, and then kind of trying to build and I thought we did a good job. We controlled the pace for quite a bit of the game.”
Trevor Lewis also scored for the Kings, who have won seven straight.
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Craig Anderson made 36 saves in the loss.
“I thought, overall, we played a pretty solid game,” Anderson said. “I think we were doing a lot of right things, a lot of good things out there. The puck didn’t bounce our way there, but we had a couple of good opportunities there at the end to tie it up and we just weren’t able to capitalize.”
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