In Los Angeles, the Kings;’ woes continued on Thursday night in a 2-1 loss to the Nashville Predators. 
Juuse Saros made 33 saves in the win.
Ryan O’Reilly scored off the power play to give Nashville a 1-0 lead in the middle frame.
“We have to be more simple, get pucks to the net, win battles,” O’Reilly said. “Great heads up play by him to shoot it there, and I was just lucky to get a piece of it. Big goal tonight to kind of spark us and get some offense going.”
The Predators improved to 25-19-1.
The Kings got even at 1-1, when Drew Doughty hit off an LA power play at 8:52.
The Kings dropped to 21-13-8 off their 10th loss in 11 games.
“We fixed one area tonight, we didn’t give up a lot,” Los Angeles coach Todd McLellan said. “When we did, I thought Rittich played really well. The other end of the rink, you got to score goals to win. For only giving up two, we should be able to win every night.”
Nashville regained the lead at 13:40 on a marker from Gustav Nyquist .
“That’s exactly what I was hoping for,” Nyquist said. “We got a great shot by ‘Schenner.’ It’s one of those pucks that comes right to your stick, and you’ve just got to bury it.”
David Rittich made 31 saves in the loss..
“We just got to figure it out, really,” Los Angeles’ Anze Kopitar said. “We’ve got to play better in certain moments of the game. It’s not like the efforts not there and everybody wants to win, but we’ve got to play better.”
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