Kings, Ducks look to keep 勢い going
The Southern California turf 戦う／戦い 再開するs Monday when the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks play the first of two 連続した games this week.
Both teams are coming off much-needed overtime victories as they 会合，会う in Anaheim just over a month after the Ducks earned a 3-1 victory at Los Angeles.
The Kings' 4-3 victory Saturday at home over the St. Louis Blues ended a four-game losing streak and （機の）カム on a goal from Adrian Kempe, 1:45 into extra time. Los Angeles was able to 決起大会／結集させる from a 3-0 赤字 with two goals from Anze Kopitar and another by Matt Luff.
Kopitar leads the Kings with 28 points (six goals, 22 補助装置s) and took 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 when the Kings needed to get going, 与える／捧げるing an 補助装置 on Luff's game-tying goal in the second period.
"No one man does it by himself, but when your 最高の，を越す player or players decide that they got to reel a game 支援する in and do it the 権利 way, it's real 平易な to follow," Kings coach Todd McLellan said. "When the alpha decides to play the 権利 way, everybody else follows, and that's tremendous leadership shown by him and a few others tonight."
The Kings followed a 約束ing six-game winning streak with the four-game losing streak that just （機の）カム to an end, but Kopitar has been doing all he can. The 退役軍人 of 15 seasons has a four-game point streak with two goals and five 補助装置s during the run.
While Kopitar has a point in 17 games this season, he did not have one in 21 minutes of ice time in the loss to the Ducks on Feb. 2. It is one of six games where he has not 記録，記録的な／記録するd a point this season.
The Ducks pulled off that victory over the Kings thanks to 20 saves from John Gibson. Danton Heinen, David 支援するs and Nicolas Deslauriers all 得点する／非難する／２０d goals.
The late goal was 特に 満足させるing for Deslauriers, who started the game with a トン-setting fight with the Kings' Kurtis MacDermid mere seconds after the 開始 puck 減少（する）. The pair also fought the last time the teams met in t he 2019-20 season.
But Deslauriers has been a healthy scratch the past three games as the Ducks search for answers. MacDermid has not played since Feb. 26.
It appeared the Ducks 設立する part of what they are looking for Saturday when Troy Terry 得点する／非難する／２０d two goals and Ryan Getzlaf had the game 勝利者 in overtime as the Ducks earned a 5-4 road victory over the Colorado 雪崩／（抗議などの）殺到 to end a nine-game losing streak (0-6-3).
The Ducks 追跡するd 4-2 when Terry 得点する／非難する／２０d with just under seven minutes remaining and Kevin Shattenkirk tied it on a 力／強力にする play with 2:50 remaining.
Rickard Rakell had an 補助装置 on the tying and winning goals, while Adam Henrique also had two 補助装置s. Rakell has three goals and six 補助装置s during a five-game points streak.
"I think the 救済 in our locker room is good," Getzlaf said. "It takes a little 緊張 off. We've been 戦う／戦いing the last ... five or six games, playing pretty good ホッケー. Just coming の近くに was getting really old."
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