LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Adrian Kempe scored the only goal of the shootout in the second round, and the Los Angeles Kings tightened the Western Conference playoff race with a 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles has played extra time in seven of its last 10 games \u2014 and 32 this season.<\/p>\n
Joel Armia opened the scoring for the Kings and Scott Laughton made it a 2-1 lead in the second period. Jared Wright has an assist in a career-best three straight games.<\/p>\n
Steven Stamkos tied it at 1-all for the Predators and Roman Josi knotted it at 2 early in the third.<\/p>\n
Anton Forsberg made 29 saves in the win for the Kings. Saros made 26 saves for the Predators.<\/p>\n
The Kings won 58.3% of the faceoffs in the game.<\/p>\n
All three series matchups this season went to a shootout, including a 5-4 victory for the Predators in Los Angeles last Thursday.<\/p>\n
Predators: Visit the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Kings: Host the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Adrian Kempe scored the only goal of the shootout in the second round, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[366,12966,5,21662,973,10617,3494,62094,3492,47087,10616,60785,52362,1501,929,1489],"class_list":{"0":"post-545051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-anton-forsberg","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jared-wright","12":"tag-joel-armia","13":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","14":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","15":"tag-predators-kings-score","16":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","17":"tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","18":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","19":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","20":"tag-product-40814-ap-tennessee-sports-only","21":"tag-roman-josi","22":"tag-scott-laughton","23":"tag-steven-stamkos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116362050301838884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545051","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=545051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}