Los Angeles @ Colorado preview

Last Meeting ( Nov 21, 2018 ) Colorado 7, Los Angeles 3

The Los Angeles Kings will try to rebound from having their season-high four-game winning streak snapped when they visit the reeling Colorado Avalanche on Monday. Los Angeles, which has the fewest points in the league (33), lost 4-1 at Vegas on Saturday while Colorado fell at home to Chicago 3-2 in overtime for its fourth straight loss - all against the Western Conference - and are 1-4-3 in its last eight such contests.

"The big thing is now we can't let this one (loss) turn into two and three and four," Kings captain Anze Kopitar told reporters Saturday after scoring his ninth goal of the season and 299th of his career. The Avalanche's Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon and captain Gabriel Landeskog comprise the NHL's most-prolific line with 64 goals and 163 points, and continue to produce despite the team's woes. The unit tallied both goals Saturday and is responsible for 48.5 percent of the team's scoring and 45.7 percent of its points this season. Colorado snapped a five-game losing streak in the series with a 7-3 victory in Los Angeles on Nov. 21 despite Rantanen, MacKinnon and Landeskog combining for a goal and four assists.

TV: 8 p.m. ET, FS West (Los Angeles), Altitude (Colorado)

ABOUT THE KINGS (15-21-3): Kopitar has recorded seven of his club-high 25 points in the last nine games while Alex Iafallo has four of his nine goals and six of his 12 assists this season during that span. Dustin Brown has scored two of his team-best 10 goals in 13 December games after collecting seven in November. Jonathan Quick, who had a three-game winning streak snapped Saturday, is 16-5-1 with a 2.16 goals-against average and .917 save percentage against the Avalanche.

ABOUT THE AVALANCHE (19-13-7): Landeskog is tied for fourth in the league with a team-high 24 goals while Rantanen (61 points) and MacKinnon (58) are second and third in points behind Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov (63). Defenseman Tyson Barrie (25) has the most points on the club after Landeskog (44) with Carl Soderberg's 22 most among the remaining forwards, while Soderberg and J.T. Compher tied for fourth on the team with 10 goals apiece. Nikita Zadorov (team-best plus-9 among defensemen) has missed the last four games with a lower-body injury.

OVERTIME

1. Colorado's Tyson Barrie (25 points) recorded his 208th career assist Saturday, passing John-Michael Liles for most by a defenseman in Avalanche history, and is two points shy of tying Liles for most points among blue-iners in team annals.

2. Los Angeles is last in the league in scoring at 2.26 goals per game.

3. The Avalanche have scored a power-play goal in each of the last three games and own the league's fourth-best unit at 27.3 percent.

PREDICTION: Avalanche 3, Kings 2