Red Wings' four goals in second doom Kings
The Kings' spiral continued Saturday night in the Motor City.
Dylan Larkin had two goals and the Detroit Red Wings handed the Kings their eighth consecutive loss with a 5-3 victory.
Robby Fabbri, Patrick Kane and Andrew Copp also scored as the Red Wings improved to 4-0-1 in their last five games. Alex Lyon made 33 saves.
The Kings fell to 0-2-2 on a six-game trip. Their last win was a 5-1 victory over San Jose on Dec. 27.
Detroit grabbed control by scoring four times in the last 11 minutes of the second period. The Red Wings also beat the Kings 4-3 in a shootout on Jan. 4 at Crypto.com Arena.
Quinton Byfield had two power-play goals for the
DETROIT >> THE SCORE
RED WINGS 5, KINGS 3
Up next: Kings at Hurricanes, Monday, noon, BSW
SUMMARY
Kings Detroit
First Period:
1, Detroit, Larkin 15 (Perron), 2:44. 2, Kings, Byfield 11 (Fiala, Kopitar), 6:58 (pp). Penalties: Holl,
DET (Tripping), 5:49. Laferriere, Kings (Hooking), 13:04.
3, Detroit, Larkin 16 (Kane, Gostisbehere), 9:17 (pp). 4, Detroit, Fabbri 12 (Veleno, Sprong), 16:22. 5, Detroit, Kane 7 (Petry, DeBrincat), 17:26. 6, Detroit, Copp 7 (Petry, Fischer), 19:47. Penalties: Doughty, Kings (Tripping), 7:39. Moore, Kings (Illegal Equipment), 9:08.
7, Kings, Dubois 8 (Danault, Laferriere), 3:07 (pp). 8, Kings, Byfield 12 (Fiala, Kopitar), 5:38 (pp). Penalties: DeBrincat, DET (Interference), 1:22. Petry, DET (Roughing), 4:38.
Kings 9-10-17: 36. Detroit
Second Period:
Third Period: Shots on goal:
Power-play opportunities:
Goalies:
8-19-3: 30;
Kings 3 of 3. Detroit 1 of 3;
Kings, Talbot 14-10-5 (27 shots-22 saves). Detroit, Lyon 9-4-1 (36-33);
19,515 (20,000); 2:36.
A: 1 1
T: 0 4 2 — 3 0 — 5
Kings, and Pierre-Luc Dubois also scored with the man advantage. Anze Kopitar, who has 50 points in 45 career games against the Red Wings, collected two assists.
Kings goalie Cam Talbot stopped 22 shots before he was replaced by David Rittich in the third period.
Detroit took a 2-1 lead when it converted a 5-on-3 power play midway through the second period. Larkin knocked in a rebound of a Kane shot.
Fabbri made it 3-1 with 3:38 left in the second, jamming in a rebound of a Daniel Sprong shot. Kane scored just over a minute later on a breakaway.
Copp scored on a tip-in with 12.5 seconds remaining, lifting Detroit to a four-goal advantage.
“It's hard to be in this situation,” Kopitar said. “But then again, it's going to be everybody that's going to pull us out of this situation.”
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Saturday's results
26 24 23 19 22 20 20 13
L OT Pts GF GA
8 13 11 17 16 18 21 23 13 13 14 13 15 14 15 21 9 2 8 5 5 7 4 0
L OT Pts GF GA
2 5 6 10 3 6 6 9
Tampa Bay 5, Ducks 1
Detroit 5, Kings 3 Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Ottawa 5, San Jose 4 Vancouver 1, Buffalo 0
New Jersey 4, Florida 1 Seattle 7, Columbus 4 Colorado 5, Toronto 3 Carolina 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Philadelphia 2, Winnipeg 0 Edmonton 2, Montreal 1, OT Nashville 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Dallas 3, Chicago 1
Boston 4, St. Louis 3, OT Arizona 6, Minnesota 0 Calgary 3, Vegas 1
Today's games
Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 10 a.m. Detroit at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Monday's games
28 28 25 24 21 21 17 12 25 27 21 22 21 17 18 15
L OT Pts GF GA
11 14 11 15 14 18 27 30 3 5 8 1 9 5 1 3 61 165 110 53 136 119 48 129 102 47 138 117 47 122 122 45 136 137 29 106 144 23 88 178
L OT Pts GF GA
10 12 12 18 18 18 20 29 4 3 5 1 2 2 5 2 60 139 97 59 160 133 55 155 129 49 138 134 44 118 131 44 126 123 39 121 144 26 97 158 59 141 114 56 132 106 50 146 130 49 146 149 47 151 142 41 116 145 40 127 143 30 127 140 54 136 120 53 146 127 52 126 118 48 128 141 47 142 141 46 98 123 46 126 113 35 130 162
San Jose at Buffalo, 9 a.m.
Ducks at Florida, 10 a.m.
New Jersey at Boston, 10 a.m. Seattle at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. Vancouver at Columbus, 10 a.m. Kings at Carolina, noon
N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 3 p.m. Nashville at Vegas, 3 p.m. Colorado at Montreal, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 5 p.m.