Kings lose 5th straight and Sean Walker as Blues blank them

3 years ago 309

The St. Louis Blues’ Robert Thomas, left, tries to get disconnected a changeable arsenic Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick and Matt Roy support during the archetypal play of Monday’s crippled successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Torey Krug controls the puck arsenic the Kings’ Adrian Kempe defends during the archetypal play of Monday’s crippled successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Vladimir Tkachev controls the puck arsenic the St. Louis Blues’ Justin Faulk (72) defends during the archetypal play of Monday’s crippled successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Tobias Bjornfot skates past the St. Louis Blues’ Colton Parayko during the archetypal play of Monday’s crippled successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Anze Kopitar reaches for a escaped puck arsenic the St. Louis Blues’ Marco Scandella watches during the archetypal play of Monday’s crippled successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Phillip Danault (24) and St. Louis Blues’ Jake Walman (46) pursuit aft a escaped puck during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Adrian Kempe (9) and St. Louis Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko (91) pursuit aft a escaped puck during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Austin Strand (71) and St. Louis Blues’ Jake Neighbours (63) scope for a escaped puck during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Vladimir Tkachev (21) passes the puck implicit St. Louis Blues’ Justin Faulk (72) during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Arthur Kaliyev (34) successful enactment during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Arthur Kaliyev (34) successful enactment during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Viktor Arvidsson handles the puck during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Gabriel Vilardi successful enactment during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Dustin Brown (23) successful enactment during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Austin Strand (71) and St. Louis Blues’ Jake Neighbours (63) scope for a escaped puck during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Viktor Arvidsson controls the puck during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Rasmus Kupari successful enactment during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Robert Thomas (18) controls the puck arsenic the Kings’ Alexander Edler (2) defends during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Dustin Brown (23) reaches for a escaped puck arsenic St. Louis Blues goaltender Ville Husso (35) defends during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Matt Roy successful enactment during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Robert Thomas (18) controls the puck arsenic the Kings’ Alexander Edler (2) defends during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Jordan Kyrou (25) looks to walk arsenic the Kings’ Gabriel Vilardi (13) defends during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Jordan Kyrou (25) and the Kings’ Rasmus Kupari (89) scope for a escaped puck during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Tyler Bozak (21) passes astir the Kings’ Adrian Kempe (9) during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Phillip Danault (24) and the St. Louis Blues’ Ivan Barbashev (49) scope for a escaped puck arsenic Kings’ Austin Strand (71) watches during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Ivan Barbashev (49) checks the Kings’ Austin Strand (71) into the boards during the 2nd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Trevor Moore (12) chases aft a escaped puck arsenic St. Louis Blues’ Robert Bortuzzo (41) defends during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko (91) scores past Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick (32) arsenic Kings’ Austin Strand (71), Adrian Kempe (9) and Mikey Anderson (44) ticker during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Blues manager Craig Berube is seen connected the seat during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled betwixt the St. Louis Blues and the Los Angeles Kings Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Phillip Danault chases aft a escaped puck during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Carl Grundstrom (91) controls the puck arsenic St. Louis Blues’ Robert Bortuzzo (41) defends during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Viktor Arvidsson (33) shoots arsenic St. Louis Blues’ Ivan Barbashev (49) watches during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Viktor Arvidsson (33) shoots arsenic St. Louis Blues’ Ivan Barbashev (49) watches during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Jake Walman (46) controls the puck during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the Kings Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Carl Grundstrom controls the puck during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Phillip Danault is incapable to people past St. Louis Blues goaltender Ville Husso during the 3rd play of Monday night’s crippled successful St. Louis. The Kings lost, 3-0.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Viktor Arvidsson (33) controls the puck during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The St. Louis Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko (91) scores past Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Alex Iafallo successful enactment during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Kings’ Arthur Kaliyev (34) controls the puck during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled against the St. Louis Blues Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

ST. LOUIS — The joyousness of opening nighttime already feels similar a distant representation for the Kings, who connected Monday nighttime watched different defenseman helped disconnected the crystal portion losing to a squad that is disconnected to a acold much promising commencement to its season.

Vladimir Tarasenko scored 2 goals and Ville Husso recorded his 2nd vocation shutout arsenic the St. Louis Blues remained undefeated successful 5 games with a 3-0 triumph implicit the Kings.

The Kings (1-4-1) haven’t won since their play opener. They saw seasoned defenseman Drew Doughty helped disconnected the crystal aft a scary knee-to-knee collision successful Dallas connected Friday night, and they look to person mislaid defenseman Sean Walker for a portion present too.

Walker got his legs tangled with the Bues’ David Perron aft a faceoff precocious successful the archetypal period. The 2 went down and Perron landed awkwardly connected Walker’s close knee, which got bent successful a atrocious angle. Walker needed assistance getting disconnected the crystal and did not instrumentality to play.

“He couldn’t enactment immoderate value connected it,” Kings manager Todd McLellan said. “It’s not a insignificant wounded by immoderate means.”

It was the 2nd nonaccomplishment to the Blues successful 3 nights for the Kings, who were routed, 7-3, connected Saturday.

“It doesn’t matter. A nonaccomplishment is simply a loss,” King defenseman Matt Roy said. “With everything happening, we each request to measurement up and marque thing happen. We each request to transportation successful and bash more.”

The Blues outshot the Kings successful the archetypal period, and the Kings reversed the inclination successful the 2nd period. In the third, they were reasonably even.

“We person to people a extremity evidently to win,” McLellan said. “We had a mates of idiosyncratic mistakes that outgo us.”

The outlook is overmuch sunnier for the unbeaten Blues, who are disconnected to a 5-0 commencement for the archetypal clip successful franchise history.

“You can’t get complacent successful this league and you’ve got to support your ft connected the state pedal astatine each times,” Blues manager Craig Berube said. “You’ve got to support your caput astatine an adjacent keel. You ne'er tin get excessively precocious oregon excessively debased successful this league.”

It was Tarasenko’s archetypal multi-goal crippled since Feb. 14, 2019.

“I’m playing with bully partners. They make the chances for me,” Tarasenko said. “I said it before, I request to find a mode to enactment it in. It’s a batch of scoring chances, truthful yet it volition spell successful the net.”

Husso stopped 34 shots successful his archetypal commencement of the season. The Finnish goalie is successful his 2nd play and improved to 2-1 against the Kings.

“I felt bully the full game. A small tense astatine the start, but that’s portion of it,” Husso said. “But wide I felt beauteous bully the full 60 minutes. It was bully to get a triumph close away.”

Kings goalie Jonathan Quick had 32 saves successful falling to 12-16-3 beingness against St. Louis.

Tarasenko’s archetypal extremity of the play came connected a dazzling play astatine 3:08 of the 3rd play to drawback a scoreless tie. Tarasenko took a cross-ice walk from Tory Krug, chopped wrong Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson and snapped a wrist changeable successful the apical country past Quick.

“I mean, sometimes you request to effort something, not conscionable sprout the puck,” Tarasenko said. “Good happening it worked out. I told you before, I don’t similar to truly speech astir goals due to the fact that the biggest happening is conscionable 2 goals, assistance the squad win. I’m not going to lie, it’s bully to people the goals.”

Robert Thomas assisted connected the goal. He said getting to spot Tarasenko bash what helium tin bash connected the crystal is simply a treat.

“That’s conscionable an unbelievable move,” Thomas said. “It was vintage Vladi. He’s a subordinate who tin marque those moves. It was a beauty. It’s a ton of amusive skating up the crystal down him watching him marque immoderate magic.”

For the 2nd goal, Ivan Barbashev poked the puck guardant to Tarasenko and helium made it look casual connected the breakaway. And Tarasenko’s 3rd extremity of the play came with conscionable nether 5 minutes near and the fans began to chant, “Vladi, Vladi, Vladi.”

“We ever person enactment from the existent fans,” Tarasenko said. “I ever said it successful the interviews. Our household got truthful overmuch assistance from radical from St. Louis. The enactment done this 10 years was precise awesome.”

Tarasenko has a four-game point-scoring streak (three goals, 3 assists), and successful his career, helium has 23 points (12 goals, 11 assists) successful 25 games against the Kings.

The Blues added an empty-net extremity with astir a infinitesimal near from David Perron, who has six goals implicit the past 3 games.

COVID ISSUES

The Kings are without near helping Brendan Lemieux, who is successful the COVID-19 protocols. … The Blues are inactive without Brandon Saad, who remains successful the protocol.

ICE CHIPS

Kings defenseman Drew Doughty (knee) remains retired aft being injured Friday nighttime successful a knee-to-knee deed from Dallas defenseman Jani Hakanpaa. Doughty had tied the franchise grounds for astir points done the archetypal 3 games of a play for a defenseman, with 7 points (one goal, six assists). … Kings defenseman Austin Strand, who was recalled from the Ontario Reign connected Saturday, made his 2021-22 play debut. Strand appeared successful 13 games for the Kings during past season. … Blues near helping Pavel Buchnevich was backmost aft helium served a two-game suspension for a caput butt against Arizona guardant Lawson Crouse connected Oct. 18. In the Blues’ archetypal 4 games, Buchnevich has played lone 1 afloat game.