Kings stumble against Coyotes, lose fourth straight game

LOS ANGELES –– The Kings produced aggregate domineering stretches but inactive mislaid their 4th consecutive crippled 2-1 against the Arizona Coyotes successful overtime astatine Staples Center connected Sunday.

Winger Brendan Lemieux scored a extremity for the Kings. Jonathan Quick made 24 of 26 saves successful defeat.

Center Travis Boyd tallied for Arizona and defenseman Kyle Capobianco netted the overtime game-winner. Rookie goalie Karel Vejmelka’s earned his archetypal triumph of the play successful his 11th determination with 38 saves

Arizona lone had 2 shots successful overtime, but the 2nd 1 won them the crippled erstwhile Capobianco whipped a changeable by Quick that entered the nett narrowly astatine the intersection of the crossbar and post.

Sixteen seconds successful the 3rd period, the Kings went to the powerfulness play, keeping the puck distant from Arizona and generating prime opportunities. The Kings deed the nett 5 times and attempted 10 full shots successful a 2:04 agelong of sustained pressure. Their nonaccomplishment to convert, however, opened a model for Arizona.

At the 4:44 mark, defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere skated down a saucer walk into abstraction and moved the puck to Boyd, who redirected the puck past Quick to adjacent the score.

It was Gostisbehere’s team-leading 14th constituent of the season, a pleasant astonishment from a subordinate who was accompanied successful an offseason commercialized by a second-round prime truthful that the Philadelphia Flyers could jettison his contract. Gostisbehere besides carried the puck done 3 Kings during a precocious powerfulness play, and successful overtime his dangle-and-deke determination led to a unsafe chance.

The Kings killed a punishment and got done a four-on-four situation, and Quick made a halt connected winger Loui Eriksson successful the dying seconds of regulation.

The 2nd play belonged to the Kings’ 4th line. It rolled momentum from Saturday’s crippled successful Sunday’s match, scoring the game’s archetypal extremity 5:38 into the 2nd period. Blake Lizotte stole the puck arsenic the Coyotes were exiting the Kings’ zone, creating a three-on-one opportunity. Lizotte looked to his near but opted for a short, unguarded walk to his close for Lemieux, who caught Vejmelka cheating with a near-side wrist shot. It was Lemieux’s 2nd extremity successful arsenic galore games, and his 4th of the season.

Lemieux astir scored again aboriginal successful the play erstwhile a agelong walk recovered him up of the play. He was deed from down and astir backhanded the puck location portion sliding on the ice.

The 4th enactment generated yet different sterling accidental precocious successful the frame. Defenseman Olli Maatta centered the puck for Lizotte, who rapidly moved it to winger Arthur Kaliyev for a rising wrist changeable that Vejmelka snared with his glove.

The Kings asserted themselves successful the second portion of the archetypal period, signaling 7 unanswered shots connected extremity astatine 1 point. That included winger Viktor Arvidsson’s neutral-zone takeaway turned partial breakaway and immoderate goalmouth scrambles. They besides out-hit the Coyotes, carried possession and dominated successful the faceoff circle, but had thing to amusement for it each astatine intermission.