Just before you write off the Los Angeles Kings, you might want to keep in mind that Jonathan Quick has had a decent run of games of late.
On Monday night, Quick made 31 saves and the Kings blanked the Blues in St Louis, 3-0.
“I think it’s definitely a team collective [effort],” :A’s Dustin Brown said. “There’s huge parts of the team that weathered the storm, and now we’re back. I think people outside the room may be surprised. We’re building on last year and we’ve got confidence. We’ve got a good, veteran core group, and some other spots have been filled by young players. That’s a good thing for us.”
Brown had two goals for LA in the win.
St Louis dropped to 10-7-2 with the loss.
“I think we aren’t trusting ourselves very much right now,” St. Louis’ Ryan O’Reilly said. “You could see a couple times on the forecheck we’re not putting [pucks] in the right areas and making it a little too easy for them to break out, but it took too long [to get going]. We need to spark some offense and get some sort of momentum that way. You could tell the more the game went on, the more frustrating it was that we couldn’t get one. … It’s tough. It’s a frustrating loss, but we have to regroup and get back at it.” 
Gabriel Vilardi gave Quick and LA all the offense they would need late in the opening frame for a 1-0 lead.
“We’re not surprised one bit,” Kings head coach Todd McLellan said of the winning streak. “We have some confidence. Everybody is in sync. We’re structurally pretty 
sound. We’re making plays. We’re getting good goaltending. Our specialty teams are giving us a boost most nights. Is that surprising? To us no, but maybe to the hockey world a little bit.”
Jordan Binnington made 28 saves in the loss.
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