{"id":117839,"date":"2025-07-09T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/117839\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:47:22","slug":"trevor-moore-and-alex-turcotte-lead-kings-to-win-over-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/117839\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Moore and Alex Turcotte lead Kings to win over Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Trevor Moore and Alex Turcotte scored in the first period, and the Kings held on to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 on Thursday night for their sixth win in seven games.<\/p>\n

Joel Edmundson fired from deep in the Kings\u2019 zone and scored into an empty net with 19 seconds left to seal the win.<\/p>\n

Darcy Kuemper made 17 saves in his fifth straight start to help Los Angeles tighten its grip on a playoff spot. Kuemper has allowed just four goals and has two shutouts in his five-game run.<\/p>\n

Connor Bedard scored for the second straight game, netting his 19th goal, as the Blackhawks lost their season-high sixth straight (0-5-1). Chicago has been outscored 25-9 during its slide. Spencer Knight stopped 30 shots.<\/p>\n

The Kings outshot Chicago 19-7 in a dominant first period and took a 2-0 lead on goals by Moore and Turcotte 59 seconds apart.<\/p>\n

Moore fired a screened shot from the slot that clanked in off the left post 8:45 in. Turcotte made it 2-0 at 9:44, with a deflection of Vladislav Gavrikov\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n

Bedard cut it to 2-1 with a power-play goal on a shot from the left circle at 10:50 of the second.<\/p>\n

Takeaways \"\" <\/p>\n

Kings: Continued their pursuit of second place Edmonton in the Pacific Division and home ice advantage in a possible first-round playoff matchup with the Oilers. Los Angeles and Edmonton have met three straight seasons in the postseason<\/p>\n

Blackhawks: Following a pair of 6-2 losses, Chicago started skating in this one after a shaky start.<\/p>\n

Key moment: Kuemper made a point-blank pad save on Lukas Reichel\u2019s one-timer 2:45 into the third to keep the Kings ahead.<\/p>\n

Key stat: Turcotte snapped a 24-game drought with his eighth goal. He hadn\u2019t had a goal since scoring twice on Jan. 16 at Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Up next: Both teams play Saturday. The Kings host Carolina and the Blackhawks are at St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Trevor Moore and Alex Turcotte scored in the first period, and the Kings held on to beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[9172,521,37,96,5263,508,368,3902,436,5,1183,21069,816,815,4,956,1856,21068,1861],"class_list":{"0":"post-117839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-alex-turcotte","9":"tag-blackhawks","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","12":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","13":"tag-connor-bedard","14":"tag-darcy-kuemper","15":"tag-first-period","16":"tag-goal","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-home-ice-advantage","19":"tag-key-moment","20":"tag-king","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-second","24":"tag-shot","25":"tag-sixth-win","26":"tag-trevor-moore"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114824062921829307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}