Third Period Against Jets Shots

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Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dustin Brown scored the game-winning goal in the third period, sending the Los Angeles Kings to a 4-3 win over the Phoenix Coyotes at Staples Center. Rob Scuderi, Brad Richardson and Willie Mitchell also scored, while Anze Kopitar added a pair of assists for the Kings, who have won three of their last four games.

 

"Tonight we had a lot of shots," Brown said. "If we keep shooting the puck, they'll eventually go in and they did tonight."

 

Jason LaBarbara was tagged for all four goals on 29 shots, while Curtis McElhinney stopped all six shots he faced in relief.

 

With the Kings leading 3-2, the difference-maker came at 7:06 of the third period when Brown accepted the puck on the right wing just inside the offensive blue line, cruised to the circle and fired a wrister that just squeezed through the pads of LaBarbara.

 

With less than two minutes to play, the Coyotes elected to pull McElhinny in favor of an extra attacker. They were able to get some good pressure on the Los Angeles net, but Quick stood tall and preserved the win for his team.

 

Los Angeles opened the scoring at 4:09 of the first period when Scuderi, stationed at the right point, took a spectacular cross-ice pass from Drew Doughty and slapped it past LaBarbara to give his team the 1-0 lead.

 

Phoenix found another tying goal seven minutes into the second period when Patrick O'Sullivan hit Torres with a home run pass from deep in the defense zone all the way to the offensive blue line and the big forward broke in on goal and slid it through the five-hole of Quick to make it 2-2.

 

"We have to clean it up defensively," Torres said. "The Kings can be very dangerous down the stretch."

 

The Kings improved to 9-0-0 when scoring three-plus goals in a game, and are 12-2-3 when scoring the first goal of the game...Phoenix failed to convert on both of its power play opportunities, while Los Angeles failed on all three of its power play chances...The Kings are 8-3-3 vs. Pacific Division teams this season.

 

"Every game means so much and you want to take care of your home games," said Pavelski. "We're going to have a bunch on the road soon so these home games are important to win, we didn't do that tonight."

 

San Jose tied the game in the final minute of the opening frame when Joe Thornton threw a shot on net from the top of the left circle that was stopped, but Pavelski was in front to wrap in the rebound with 26.5 seconds showing.

 

The Sharks again had an answer as a sharp pass from the right point by Justin Braun went to the left circle where McGinn roofed it over the glove of Hiller at the 7:13 mark.

 

Hiller was busy in the third period as he had to stop 18 shots and had to help kill off two Corey Perry penalties to give his team the win.

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