Ducks end five-game losing streak
Defeat leaves Kings eight points behind St. Louis for final playoff spot in West.
Cam Fowler scored with 1:01 remaining and the Ducks ended a five-game losing streak by defeating the Kings 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Sam Carrick and Sam Steel also scored and John Gibson made 28 saves for the Ducks.
Gabriel Vilardi and Adrian Kempe each had a goal for the Kings, who have lost three of four. Cal Petersen made 19 saves.
Fowler scored on a wrist shot at 18:59 of the third period to cap a rally after falling behind 2-0 in the second.
The Ducks scored twice in a 3:42 span late in the second tie the score.
Carrick beat Petersen between his legs to get the Ducks on the board at 12:53, and Steel made it 2-2 at 16:35 after being set up by Rickard Rakell’s clever pass from behind the net.
The loss left the Kings eight points behind St. Louis for the final playoff spot in the West Division despite getting two goals on special teams.
The recently lapsing power-play unit came to life, giving the Kings a 1-0 lead 4:50 into the second period. Vilardi cleaned up Adrian Kempe’s rebound for his third goal with the man-advantage.
The Kings had been in a three-for-46 slump on the power play over its previous 16 games.
It was also a muchneeded goal for Vilardi, who hadn’t scored since March 3 against Arizona. The 2017 first-round pick had seen his playing time decrease over the second half of the season and was scratched for two games.
The Kings made it 2-0 after Gibson came out of his crease to play the puck at the same time as Fowler. That left Kempe with an easy flick into an open net at 11:15 of the middle period.