Petersen outduels Fleury in Kings’ win
Sean Walker and Dustin Brown scored 51 seconds apart in the second period and the Kings snapped the Vegas Golden Knights’ fivegame winning streak with a 3-1 victory Sunday.
Cal Petersen made 41 saves and fell just short of his second career shutout as the Kings avenged the Knights’ 4-2 win on Friday. Counterpart and three-time Stanley Cup champion Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 28 shots.
“This is huge, and I think it helps us confidence-wise that we can play at this level and beat those kinds of teams,” Petersen said. “I think this is one of our more complete games of the year, and so this should be a good indicator of what we can do and our potential.”
Tomas Nosek ended Petersen’s shutout bid with 3:27 to play, but Jeff Carter scored a breakaway goal 55 seconds later to seal the Kings’ first win over Vegas this season.
“It felt a little bit different on the bench tonight,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “The start the other night, I think we waited for something to happen. Tonight was different.”
Walker put the Kings ahead with his first goal of the season, shoving the puck under Fleury during a prolonged scrum at the edge of the crease.
Vegas handed a power play to the Kings by unsuccessfully challenging Walker’s score for goalie interference, and Brown cashed in moments later from close range for his 14th goal.
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Defenseman Matt Roy
signed a three-year, $9.45million contract extension, the team announced before the game. A seventh-round pick in the 2015 draft, Roy has played his way into a regular role with L.A., recording seven assists in 25 games this season . ... The Kings lost defenseman Olli Maatta in the first period to an upper-body injury . ... The Knights played without second-leading scorer Max Pacioretty, who is out with a lower-body injury.