November 26 postgame notes

-With the win, Los Angeles improved to 24-15-13 all-time against Minnesota, a record that includes a road mark of 12-7-7. Tonight’s game was only the second time in nine games that the winning team’s margin of victory was wider than one goal.

-Dustin Brown scored the 200th goal of his career. In 743 games, he has 422 points (200-222=422).

-Martin Jones recorded the fifth shutout of his career in his 25th game played. It was the Kings’ third shutout of the season. The last time he started back-to-back games was December 10 and 11, 2013, when he shut out Montreal 6-0 and defeated Toronto 3-1, stopping 69 of 70 shots.

-Los Angeles improved to 8-3-3 against the Western Conference and 5-2-1 against the Central Division.

-The Kings improved to 2-2-0 on the second night of back-to-back sets.

-Los Angeles has averaged 3.56 over the last nine games (32 GF / 9 GP).

-With his first period goal, Justin Williams extended his point streak to six games (3-4=7).

-With his first period assist, Brayden McNabb increased his points/assists streak to three games (0-3=3).

-Drew Doughty’s point streak was snapped at five games.

-Nino Niederreiter finished with a game-high six shots on goal. Trevor Lewis and Dustin Brown led the Kings with four shots on goal.

-The Kings finished with 41 shot attempts (22 on goal, 10 blocked, 9 missed). The Wild finished with 57 shot attempts (28 on goal, 11 blocked, 18 missed.

-Los Angeles won 26-of-47 faceoffs (55%). Among regular performers, Mike Richards won 2-of-7, Anze Kopitar won 10-of-15, Jarret Stoll won 7-of-13, and Jeff Carter won 6-of-11.

The Kings have Thursday off. The next practice is scheduled for 10:00 am on Friday, November 28.

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