{"id":546725,"date":"2026-04-08T04:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:23:13","slug":"adrian-kempe-scores-in-shootout-as-kings-beat-predators-3-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546725\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Kempe scores in shootout as Kings beat Predators 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>Los Angeles has played extra time in seven of its last 10 games \u2014 and 32 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Steven Stamkos tied it at 1-all for the Predators and Roman Josi knotted it at 2 early in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Anton Forsberg made 29 saves in the win for the Kings. Saros made 26 saves for the Predators.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings won 58.3% of the faceoffs in the game.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Predators: Visit the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Host the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[366,233,12966,5,21662,973,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,231,4,1501,20087,929,1489,27,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-546725","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-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anton-forsberg","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jared-wright","13":"tag-joel-armia","14":"tag-kings","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-kings","17":"tag-lakings","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-kings","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangeleskings","22":"tag-nashville-predators","23":"tag-nhl","24":"tag-roman-josi","25":"tag-saros","26":"tag-scott-laughton","27":"tag-steven-stamkos","28":"tag-vancouver-canucks","29":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116367186422969042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546725","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=546725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}