-With the loss, Los Angeles fell to 13-17-4 all-time against Tampa Bay, a record that includes a home mark of 5-11-2. The Kings’ four-game home winning streak in the series was snapped as they fell to 7-2-1 in their last 10 head-to-head games overall in the all-time series. The Lightning’s previous win at Staples Center came on January 12, 2009 when Evgeni Artyukhin, Mark Recchi and Vincent Lecavalier scored for the visitors and Peter Harrold for the home team as Mike Smith beat Erik Ersberg, who was replaced early in the second period by Jonathan Quick. These teams will conclude their season series on February 7 at Amalie Arena.
-Los Angeles fell to 8-8-2 against the Eastern Conference, 3-6-1 against the Atlantic Division, 13-6-4 in one-goal games, 14-5-2 when scoring first and 7-7-1 when tied after the first period.
-The Kings have not scored a goal with their goaltender pulled at the end of games this season. In 6-on-5 situations, Los Angeles has scored 0 goals and has allowed 7. In 5-on-6 situations, with the opponent’s goalie pulled, the Kings have scored 3 and allowed 2.
-Los Angeles is 3-3-0 with an opportunity to extend a two-game winning streak into a three-game winning streak but has lost its last three games in vying to do so, having scored one goal in that span (0-1 @ BOS, 0-4 vs DET, 1-2 vs TBL).
-Alec Martinez’s four-game assist streak was snapped, as were Jeff Carter’s four-game point streak and Dustin Brown’s three-game point streak.
-Drew Doughty (30:50 TOI) cracked 30 minutes for the first time this season in a game decided in regulation.
-The Kings attempted 70 shots (32 on goal, 20 blocked, 18 missed). The Lightning attempted 58 shots (29 on goal, 11 blocked, 18 missed). Brian Boyle, Jonathan Drouin, Gabriel Dumont, Jake Muzzin and Tanner Pearson tied with a game-high four shots on goal.
-Los Angeles won 25-of-54 faceoffs (46%). Among regular performers, Andy Andreoff won 7-of-10, Nick Shore won 2-of-10, Nic Dowd won 5-of-11 and Jeff Carter won 10-of-21.
The Kings are scheduled to practice at 10:00 a.m. at Toyota Sports Center on Tuesday, January 17.
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