Spencer Knight made 26 saves for the visiting Chicago Blackhawks in a 2-1 win in opposition to the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.
Connor Bedard and Wyatt Kaiser scored for the Blackhawks, who had misplaced six of the earlier seven video games (1-4-2). Frank Nazar assisted on each tallies.
Trevor Moore scored and Darcy Kuemper made 34 saves for the Kings, who’ve misplaced two in a row.
Early within the second interval, the Blackhawks went on their second energy play when Joel Edmundson was known as for tripping Andre Burakovsky. Chicago scored 9 seconds into the person benefit when Tyler Bertuzzi fed Bedard from beneath the purpose line, and Bedard redirected the puck into the web for a 1-0 lead at 6:17.
It was the 18th purpose of the season for Bedard and his fifth on the ability play.
Kaiser scored his first purpose of the season with a wrist shot from the left hashmarks after receiving a brief move from Nazar, extending the result in 2-0 with six seconds left within the second interval.
Moore scored on a one-timer from the within fringe of the left circle off a feed from Warren Foegele to chop the margin to 2-1 at 10:38 of the third.
Los Angeles was held to 2 objectives or fewer for the fifth time prior to now six video games.
Kuemper slid put up to put up to show away a superb probability by Burakovsky at 14:36 of the primary interval following a turnover by Kevin Fiala.
Bedard went to the penalty field for tripping Mikey Anderson at 15:53 of the primary, giving the Kings their second energy play, however Los Angeles ahead Adrian Kempe was known as for high-sticking Kaiser 30 seconds later.
The Blackhawks outshot the Kings 13-12 within the scoreless first interval.
Chicago’s Jason Dickinson hit the put up at 4:57 of the second.
Kings defenseman Drew Doughty returned after lacking seven video games with a lower-body harm, and Foegele was again after sitting out the previous three with an upper-body harm.
The Kings will host the Blackhawks once more on Saturday night time.
Los Angeles ended a five-game level streak (4-0-1) by the Blackhawks with a 3-1 victory in Chicago on Oct. 26.
–Area Stage Media
