Los Angeles is one point ahead of Nashville, which would own the tiebreaker if the two were tied, and two points ahead of the San Jose Sharks, who have a game in hand.<\/p>\n
Joel Armia and Scott Laughton scored for the Kings (32-26-19), who are 3-0-1 in their past four and have won consecutive games for the first time since a three-game winning streak from Jan. 20-27.<\/p>\n
Steven Stamkos scored for the third straight game, Roman Josi had a goal and an assist, and Juuse Saros made 26 saves for the Predators (36-31-10), who had won two in a row.<\/p>\n
Armia put the Kings up 1-0 at 5:36 of the first period on a wrist shot from the left circle.<\/p>\n
Stamkos tied it 1-1 at 4:29 of the second period with a one-timer from the left circle off a cross-slot saucer pass from Ryan O\u2019Reilly during a 5-on-3 power play.<\/p>\n
Laughton put the Kings back in front 2-1 at 13:57. Jared Wright entered the zone with speed and took the puck down to the goal line, where he then found Laughton at the top of the right crease for a quick wrist shot.<\/p>\n
Josi tied it 2-2 at 4:18 of the third period. Filip Forsberg’s one-timer went wide of the net and caromed off the end boards into the left circle, where Josi one-timed it under the left pad of Anton Forsberg.<\/p>\n
Predators defenseman Nicolas Hague did not play and is day to day because of an upper-body injury he sustained in a 6-3 win at the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles is one point ahead of Nashville, which would own the tiebreaker if the two were tied,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-545005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361851652188258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545005","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=545005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}