Kings' Quick Gets Win In 700th game; LA Beats Florida, 3-2
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kings' goaltender Jonathan Quick, playing in his 700th game, stopped Anthony Duclair's shot during the fifth round of the shootout to give Los Angeles a 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Sunday night.
Trevor Moore went top shelf to help the Kings snap the Panthers' five-game winning streak. It was the first time in 31 games the Panthers haven't won when leading after two periods.
Florida's Aleksander Barkov and Los Angeles' Adrian Kempe also made their shots in the shootout.
Rasmus Kupari and Martin Frk scored for Los Angeles. Quick made 28 saves.
Eetu Luostarinen and Brandon Montour accounted for the Panthers' goal. Spencer Knight stopped 34 shots.
The Kings sent it to overtime with 18 seconds remaining when Frk unleashed a slap shot from the left faceoff circle that went top shelf and in near the far post. Los Angeles had a 6-on-4 advantage with the open net and after Florida's was called for elbowing with 1:12 remaining.
Los Angeles had a power play in overtime after Aaron Ekblad was called for tripping, but could not convert.
Kupari glided past a pair of Panthers' defenders before releasing a backhander from the left faceoff circle that went through Knight's legs to give the Kings a 1—0 lead at 11:50 of the first period.
Luostarinen scored his first goal in 27 games 43 seconds into the second period with a shorthanded score on a breakaway. Jonathan Huberdeau fed Luostarinen on the breakaway for his league-leading 65th assist and tie Edmonton's Connor McDavid for the scoring lead with 83 points.
Three minutes later, Montour knocked in a rebound of Patric Hornqvist's shot to give the Panthers a 2-1 advantage.
STREAKING
Huberdeau and Barkov both extended their points streak to five games. Huberdeau has eight assists during that span while Barkov has 11 points (one goal, 10 assists).
MILESTONE
Los Angeles' Jordan Spence got his first NHL point in his third game. The rookie defenseman, who was called up on March 9 after Mikey Anderson suffered an upper-body injury, had the second assist on Kupari's goal.
700 CLUB
Quick is the fourth American goaltender to play 700 games in the NHL, joining John Vanbiesbrouck (882), Ryan Miller (796) and Tom Barrasso (777).
He is the 30th all-time and third among active players, trailing Chicago's Marc Andre-Fleury (926) and Montreal's Carey Price (707).
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