TEMPE, Ariz. — Trevor Moore scored two objectives and the Los Angeles Kings prolonged their season-opening highway profitable streak to eight video games with a 4-1 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Monday.
Anze Kopitar and Phillip Danault additionally scored and Pheonix Copley made 30 saves for the Kings, who’re tied for the third-longest such streak in NHL historical past. Buffalo holds the file by profitable its first 10 highway video games in 2006-07.
“We are a veteran team,” Kings coach Todd McLellan stated. “We have been together as a group for a long time. We understand what our structure is. Our game management skills have gotten better from the start of the year until now.
“All of those things are really important when you play on the road. We seem to play a simpler game. Everybody pulls on the rope the right way. We don’t need outstanding games from everybody every night. We just need good games, and we’ve been getting them.”
Lawson Crouse scored and Connor Ingram made 21 saves for the Coyotes, who performed their seventh house sport of the season. Ingram is 6-2 in his eight begins this season, and Crouse has scored in three of the final 4 video games and eight of the final 10.
Los Angeles killed all six penalties, together with a double minor on Adrian Kempe when the rating was 3-1 halfway by means of the third interval. The Kings haven’t given up an influence play aim within the final seven video games and 26 penalty-kill conditions.
PHOTOS: Moore scores twice as Kings prolong highway profitable streak with 4-1 victory over Coyotes
“First, we are blocking a lot of shots,” Copley stated. “We’re taking away lanes. I thought we did a really good job keeping them to the outside. We’ve been sticking to keeping it simple, and that was has been leading to the success.”
Copley gave up three objectives within the first 8:31 earlier than being pulled within the Kings’ 5-4 victory right here Oct. 27, and McLellan stated the Kings focused this sport for his return. Cam Talbot had began the final three and eight of the final 10.
“In the back of our minds we were always thinking about playing him here again,” McLellan stated. “Back to the scene of the crime. But not his crime. Our crime. Try to get the players to respond to him and he to them.”
Moore scored a short-handed aim at 3:36 of the primary interval. Danault picked up a cross that ricocheted off a Moore’s skate and returned it to Moore, who picked it up alongside the middle facet boards and beat Ingram with a wrist shot excessive to the glove facet.
“Todd put a pretty big emphasis on our start and we wanted to be better,” Moore stated.
Copley saved breakaways by Jason Zucker and Nick Schmaltz within the remaining 9 minutes of the primary interval, and Crouse missed the online on a breakaway within the final minute.
“We played solid defensively,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny stated. “Even offensively, we created a lot of chances but did not bury them. We did a lot of good things. It was just a matter of execution.”
UP NEXT
Kings: At Anaheim on Friday.
Coyotes: Host St. Louis on Wednesday.
