Los Angeles Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights Match Player Stats On Mar 01, 2020

Rookie goaltender Cal Petersen made 42 saves and Anze Kopitar scored two goals as the Los Angeles Kings snapped the franchise-record-tying eight-game winning streak of the Vegas Golden Knights with a 4-1 victory Sunday night in Las Vegas.

Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist and Trevor Lewis scored a goal for Los Angeles, which won its third consecutive game. Drew Doughty and Ben Hutton each added two assists for the Kings, who improved to 6-2-1 in their past nine games.

Shea Theodore scored for Pacific Division-leading Vegas, which suffered its first loss since Feb. 11, when it was blanked at Minnesota 4-0. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 13 of 17 shots, losing for the first time in six starts. The Kings are in last place in the division.

Los Angeles, which jumped to a 4-0 first-period lead in a 5-2 victory over the Golden Knights in their most recent visit to T-Mobile Arena on Jan. 9, took a 2-0 lead Sunday night thanks to two goals by Kopitar. The first came at the 2:01 mark when he roofed Iafallo's pass from behind the net over Fleury's right shoulder. The second came when he backhanded in a rebound of a Dustin Brown shot from the right side of the crease for his 20th goal of the season, the 11th time in 14 seasons that Kopitar has scored 20 goals in a season.

Lewis extended the Kings' lead to 3-0 midway through the second period when he streaked down the left wing, stopped and spun and fired a wrist shot past Fleury's glove side for his fifth goal of the season.

Theodore cut the Knights' deficit to 3-1 with his 11th goal on the power play when he intercepted Hutton's clearing path above the high slot and rifled a wrist shot past Petersen.

Iafallo then put Los Angeles back up by three goals with a power-play goal just before the end of the second period, shoveling in a rebound of an Adrian Kempe shot on the blue ice for his 16th goal of the season.

--Field Level Media