Moore scored 53 seconds later to make it 2-0 at 3:56 when Dumoulin’s centering pass took two deflections, with the second going in off Moore’s skate.
“It was like we hadn’t played in a long time, and it was very evident they were the hungrier team, and they set the tone right from the get-go,” Anaheim coach Joel Quenneville said.
Laferriere extended it to 3-0 at 10:21 on a one-timer from the slot off a feed from Adrian Kempe, shortly after Forsberg stopped Cutter Gauthier’s wrist shot on a breakaway at 8:35.
“After I scored the first one, ‘Kopi’ was joking if I didn’t score that one, he wasn’t going to pass to me anymore, so I knew I had to bear down on that one,” Laferriere said. “But, no, I mean, those guys were finding me in the soft ice pretty much the last two games so many times, and wasn’t able to bury for them. Yeah, tonight I was able to.”
Byfield scored on the power play to push it to 4-0 at 19:02 on a redirection in the slot of Clarke’s long wrist shot. It was his first goal in 18 games.
McTavish’s power-play goal cut it to 4-1 at 10:02 of the second period, charging the right post to put in Beckett Sennecke’s sharp-angle shot from behind the net after it trickled across the paint.
Laferriere’s second goal made it 5-1 at 4:24 of the third period after he chased down Dumoulin’s bouncing stretch pass and scored on a breakaway with the backhand.
Laferriere then completed the hat trick at 13:15 on a long one-timer through traffic for the 6-1 final. He had five shots on goal after getting nine in a 3-2 loss to the Kraken on Tuesday.
“You get 14, sooner or later, they got to start going in,” Los Angeles coach Jim Hiller said. “But those were some really nice goals too. He made some really nice plays. His line (with Kopitar and Kempe) was good. They complement each other pretty well.”
NOTES: Kopitar, who became the 29th player in NHL history with at least 850 assists, tied Philadelphia Flyers center Bobby Clarke (852) for 28th all-time. Kopitar also became the fifth player in Kings history to record 80 career three-point games. Marcel Dionne has the most (153). … Los Angeles’ six goals tied their most in a game this season, matching a 6-0 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on Dec. 6.