Postgame Highlights Archives - LA Kings Insider

The LA Kings corrected many of the issues that plagued them earlier this season against Vegas, but found themselves with too many turnovers in their own end, leading to goals against, in a 4-2 defeat against the Golden Knights. Max Pacioretty struck twice in a span of less than three minutes, hi... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 0, Avalanche 2 – Petersen, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comMarch 12, 20210 Comments

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The LA Kings fell by a 2-0 margin on Friday evening in Colorado, opening a two-game set against the Avalanche with a defeat on the road. Goaltender Cal Petersen was the star of the show from a Kings perspective, as he made 44 saves, the most of both his season and his professional career. Peter... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 4, Blues 3 (OT) – Kopitar, Kempe, Luff, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comMarch 6, 20210 Comments

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With the LA Kings down by three goals, after a start to the game featuring its share of breakdowns defensively, the team found itself in a position they’ve been in this season -trailing early on. But then they got one back before the intermission. Then a power-play goal to bring them within one,... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 2, Blues 3 (OT) – Brown, Kupari, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comMarch 5, 20210 Comments

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In the words of their head coach, the LA Kings put together a strong 58 minutes and 30 seconds, but it was the other minute and a half that cost them in a 3-2 overtime defeat against the St. Louis Blues. Early in the game, the Kings took a too-many men on the ice penalty, that wound up in the ba... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 2, Coyotes 3 – Doughty, Vilardi, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comMarch 3, 20210 Comments

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The LA Kings fell for the third straight game, as they were unable to overcome their second period in 3-2 defeat against the Arizona Coyotes on home ice. The first period was scoreless, and was one in which the Kings seemed to have a lot of jump, leading in most analytical categories, but were u... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 4, Coyotes 2 – Doughty, Iafallo, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comFebruary 20, 20210 Comments

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It’s a sweep! For the first time this season, the Kings have taken both games from a two-game set, with back-to-back victories over the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena. Tonight’s victory marks four straight for the Kings, who have points in five consecutive games. The regulation win has vaulted ... Full Story

Final – Kings 2, Blues 4 – Roy, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comJanuary 23, 20210 Comments

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The LA Kings were unable to overturn a second-period deficit, as they fell by a 4-2 final against the St. Louis Blues to begin a four-game road trip. The Kings did get off to a better start than in past games, with some good looks early on, but conceded a power-play goal midway through the first ... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 4, Avalanche 2 – Vilardi, Kopitar, Kempe, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comJanuary 21, 20210 Comments

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In the first half of the game, it felt like Colorado might have been about to blow this thing open, with a two-goal lead already in hand. Then the Avalanche took a pair of penalties 40 seconds apart. Then Drew Doughty wired home a 5-on-3 goal. Then the Kings began to surge back. Gabe Vilardi scor... Full Story

FINAL – Kings 2, Avalanche 3 – Athanasiou, Petersen, McLellan

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comJanuary 19, 20210 Comments

Postgame notesPostgame quotesPostgame videoUncategorized6 min read

The Kings had appeared to right the ship after a sluggish start, but in the blink of an eye, a one-goal game that they were very much in became a 3-0 deficit. Colorado scored two power-play goals in less than two minutes later in the second period to open up an advantage it would not relinquish. ... Full Story

Todd McLellan post-game quotes; Kings-Avs post-game notes, highlights

LA Kings InsiderMarch 9, 20200 Comments

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Todd McLellan, on whether the team is winning with a similar formula each night: Yeah, and usually that’s a sign of a pretty good team when you can just repeat over and over again. Good goaltending, good team play. I did feel or think – and I’d have to review it – but I thought the game got away fr... Full Story

March 7: Post-game notes, highlights, Todd McLellan quotes

LA Kings InsiderMarch 7, 20200 Comments

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Todd McLellan, on what he liked about the win: Scoring goals, obviously. It’s not often that our team gets to celebrate that many times in one game. A lot of them came late, but we still enjoyed it. Gave our goaltender enough run support. I thought our penalty kill again was outstanding. We checke... Full Story

December 31 Rapid Reaction: Kings 5, Flyers 3

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comDecember 31, 20190 Comments

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Todd McLellan’s impressions on the team scoring goals in all different ways That’s a pretty good summary right there. Everybody contributed. Special teams were outstanding, the penalty kill was even very good up until the end there and even in that situation, we did some of the things we wanted to ... Full Story

December 28 Rapid Reaction: Canucks 3, Kings 2

By Zach Dooley For LAKingsInsider.comDecember 28, 20190 Comments

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Todd McLellan on the team’s effort tonight, even in defeat Well the effort was really good. When I evaluate this game, we made 8-10 mistakes and three went in our net, which is unfortunate. At the other end, we created numerous opportunities, certainly not all 51 shots were of grade-A quality, but... Full Story