Good Hill, Bunting beat L.A.
Coyotes winger gets hat trick and goalie is solid as the Kings lose their third straight.
ARIZONA 5, KINGS 2
Michael Bunting scored three times and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Kings 5-2 on Monday night for their third straight win.
Bunting had two of Arizona’s season-high three power-play goals.
Adin Hill made 36 saves, including a big pad stop on Jeff Carter in the third, to improve to 6-1-0 as a starter since Antti Raanta sustained a lower-body injury.
Drew Doughty had a power-play goal and Andreas Athanasiou also scored for the Kings, who have lost three straight. Cal Petersen made 28 saves.
Bunting, a fourth-round pick in 2014, completed his first hat trick 8:48 into the second period, tapping in the rebound of Jakob Chychrun’s power-play shot.
Arizona was three for six on the power play. Los Angeles had allowed just one power-play goal in 31 chances over its previous 13 games.
Despite playing the second game of a back-to-back after beating the Ducks 3-2 in overtime on Sunday, the Coyotes blitzed the Kings with three goals in the opening 7:28. Bunting got them on the board with a onetimer in the slot 2:43 into the first, and he knocked in a power-play goal to make it 2-0 at 4:11.
Doughty pulled the Kings within 3-1 at 16:07 on a long wrist shot.
Athanasiou made it 4-2 at 2:10 of the third period.
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Kings defensemen Kale Clague and Sean Durzi were recalled while forwards Lias Andersson and Matt Luff were reassigned to the taxi squad . ... Forward Brendan Lemieux was activated from the nonroster list.