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LOS ANGELES — The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Los Angeles Kings 5-3, at Crypto Arena on January 1, 2026 and The Sporting Tribune’s Jon Bryan was there to capture the following TST Images.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings play against the Lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Kings left wing Jeff Malott (30) takes the puck against the Lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) reaches for a save against the Lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Kings defender Brian Dumoulin (2) play\u2019s defense against the Lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings right wing Quinton Byfield (55) does a face off against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings left wing Andrei Kuzmenko (96) plays defense against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings celebrate a goal against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) defends the goal against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings Defender Brandt Clarke (92) shoots a goal attempt against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings defender Drew Doughty (8) plays defense against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar (11) crashes the net against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Kings defender Joel Edmundson (6) reaches to defend against the lightning at the Crypto Arena on January 1st, 2026 in Los Angeles California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Los Angeles Kings 5-3, at Crypto Arena on January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[366,870,367,884,4807,869,368,883,5,4272,15077,6586,1270,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4,1295,92,5695],"class_list":{"0":"post-386162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-andrei-kuzmenko","10":"tag-anze-kopitar","11":"tag-brandt-clarke","12":"tag-brian-dumoulin","13":"tag-corey-perry","14":"tag-darcy-kuemper","15":"tag-drew-doughty","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-images","18":"tag-jeff-malott","19":"tag-joel-edmundson","20":"tag-kevin-fiala","21":"tag-kings","22":"tag-la","23":"tag-la-kings","24":"tag-lakings","25":"tag-los-angeles","26":"tag-los-angeles-kings","27":"tag-losangeles","28":"tag-losangeleskings","29":"tag-nhl","30":"tag-quinton-byfield","31":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","32":"tag-tst-los-angeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115824238743678953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386162","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=386162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}