March 24 postgame notes

-With the win, Los Angeles improved to 46-64-19 all-time against New York, a record that includes an away mark of 20-36-7. The Kings improved to 5-4-2 in their last 11 trips to Madison Square Garden (with one tie).

-Los Angeles improved to 15-12-4 against the Eastern Conference and 6-6-3 against the Metropolitan Division.

-The Kings failed to score a power play goal for only the third time in their last 10 games. The power play is 8-for-28 over that span.

-Los Angeles has killed off 48 of the last 51 penalties dating back to David Jones’ second period goal in the 5-3 win over Calgary on February 12.

-The Kings improved to 3-4-1 on the second game of back-to-back sets, 10-6-5 when tied after the first period, 25-3-4 when leading after two periods, 11-18-6 when the opponent scores first and 13-5 in two-goal games.

-New York’s streak of limiting opponents to two goals or fewer ended at 10 games.

-With his third period goal, Jake Muzzin (8-28=36) scored his eighth goal of the season to establish a new career-high. His previous career high was seven goals, set in 2012-13.

-Dating back to February 7, Jonathan Quick is 15-4-2 with a 1.75 GAA, .933 Sv% and three shutouts (1242:22 min / 538 shots against / 502 saves).

-Anze Kopitar has 14 points (3-11=14) in his last 11 games. By playing his 674th career game, he moved past Mike Murphy into sole possession of eighth place on the club’s all-time games played list.

-With his second period goal, Marian Gaborik now has 12 points (9-3=12) in 12 career games against New York.

-Drew Doughty logged a season-low 21:07 of ice time. His previous low was 22:39, set in a 6-1 win over Edmonton on October 14. Other than the game in which he was injured at San Jose on April 3, 2014, it was his lowest ice time since he logged 20:05 in a 2-0 win at Chicago on December 28, 2011.

-Andrej Sekera logged a game-high 26:31 of ice time, which was 5:36 more than his previous Kings high of 20:55, set in the 3-1 win at New Jersey on Monday night. It was his fourth highest ice time total of the season, with the three previous accumulations coming with Carolina.

-Los Angeles attempted 62 shots (35 on goal, 15 blocked, 12 missed). New York attempted 56 shots (36 on goal, 11 blocked, 9 missed). The Kings registered 26 shots on goal in the first 25 minutes of the game. Tyler Toffoli finished with a game-high nine shot attempts (3 on goal, 5 blocked, 1 missed), while Justin Williams finished with a game-high six shots on goal.

-Los Angeles won 34-of-64 faceoffs (53%). Among regular performers, Mike Richards won 9-of-14, Anze Kopitar won 11-of-21, Nick Shore won 7-of-11 and Jeff Carter won 7-of-16.