Kings moved two points closer to curbing home ice in the first round of the qualifiers on Thursday, and riding two goals from Kevin Viela and goals from Queenon Bayfield, Naz Cochar, Alex Lavrier, and Jurdan Spences to A to A. 6-1 Hort From ducks in Arena Crypto.com.
Andre Cosmanco and Adrian Kimby had three decisive passes.
Cotter Gauthier scored for ducks, the twentieth of the season, early in the second period. But the goalkeeper of the Kings, Darsi Keper, did not abandon another, which expands his game that results in two goals or less to 15, one of the modern NHL record.
The victory gave the kings in second place from four points over third place Edmonton Oils in the Pacific Department with four games to play. Certainly, kings and oil will meet in the first round of the Stanley Cup qualifiers for a fourth consecutive season and home ice can be very important for kings, who have the best record in NHL (30-5-4).
Oils won in the last three qualifying series with kings, but the three were opened in Edmonton.
Kings needed only 84 seconds to take the initiative, as BYFIELD recorded from the hole to play power. GATHIER matches it 1:46 in the second period, which led to the bombing of a snapshot behind the right confrontation circle. But Kopitar put the kings in the forefront to survive after 31 seconds, and re -directed at Mickey Anderson from the blue line to achieve its twentieth goal for this season.
This represented the fourteenth time Kopitar scored 20 goals or more in one season.
Fiaala has doubled the lead on the goal of playing power from the top of the right-wing circle two minutes before LaFerrie reached 4-1, hitting a loose pile at the top of the left circuit, then he was shot from wrinkles before a second shot.
Fiaala and Spence closed the scoring in the third period, as Fiaala 32 of the season scored Power Play and Spence, the fourth. For Kuzmenko, the three aid gave him 10 points in the last six games, while she gave birth to Kempe, who gave birth to her wife, Sian, the first child of the couple, a girl, earlier this week, nine points in the same range of six games.
The kings were without a Dro Dutti defender in a second consecutive match. The absence of Doughty was linked to the broken left ankle that caused the first 47 games to be missed. It was included daily
Despite the loss, the ducks, with 35 wins, have already match the best of the normal season since 2018-19.