Kings extend winning streak to 5 games in Toronto

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TORONTO — Jonathan Quick made 33 saves and the surging Kings bushed Toronto, 5-1, connected Monday night, extending their winning streak to 5 games portion snapping the Maple Leafs’ five-game triumph streak.

Phillip Danault had 2 goals and an assistance for the Kings, portion Andreas Athanasiou added a extremity and assist. Former Leafs guardant Trevor Moore scored, Adrian Kempe added an empty-net extremity and Alex Iafallo had 2 assists.

John Tavares scored for Toronto. Jack Campbell, who was Quick’s understudy with the Kings for parts of 2 seasons, made 24 stops successful his archetypal vocation commencement against his erstwhile team.

After hitting a station early, the Kings went up 1-0 astatine 10:52 of the archetypal play erstwhile Moore stepped past Timothy Liljegren and Rasmus Sandin earlier scoring his archetypal extremity of the play past Campbell.

The 29-year-old netminder, who rediscovered his crippled successful Los Angeles aft the Dallas Stars selected him 11th wide successful the 2010 NHL draft, was acquired by the Leafs from the Kings on with bruising guardant Kyle Clifford for Moore and 2 draught picks successful February 2020.

Toronto came adjacent astatine the different extremity moments aboriginal erstwhile Quick robbed Wayne Simmonds successful front.

The Kings had scored conscionable 5 first-period goals coming into Monday’s game, but they doubled their pb astatine 14:21, erstwhile Athanasiou blew by Toronto’s Jake Muzzin and sent a changeable past Campbell for his first.

Toronto’s powerfulness play connected aboriginal successful the 2nd erstwhile Moore went disconnected for hooking. Tavares was robbed by the 35-year-old Quick aboriginal during the man-advantage opportunity, but helium buried his seventh extremity of the play astatine 1:51 disconnected a setup from Mitch Marner and William Nylander.

The extremity was the 99th successful Toronto for the Maple Leafs’ captain, and the 14th consecutive extremity scored by either Tavares, Marner, Nylander oregon Auston Matthews.

The Kings restored their two-goal borderline astatine 13:56, erstwhile Danault scored his 2nd connected a series that saw the puck pinball disconnected his skate doubly and dribbled implicit the extremity line.

The play was reviewed to find if determination was a chiseled kicking question by the Kings center, but the telephone connected the crystal stood.

Danault scored with 4:30 near successful regularisation and Kempe scored into an bare net.