made 36 saves and the Los Angeles Kings snapped their 11-game road winless skid Thursday night with a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks in the second Freeway Faceoff of the season.had two assists for the last-place Kings, who had been 0-10-1 away from Staples Center since their last road win Oct. 22 in Winnipeg.
With the shortest trip on its schedule kicking off a six-game road swing, Los Angeles improved to 3-12-1 on the road by jumping to an early lead and holding off a third-period surge by the rival Ducks, who have lost eight of 11.stopped 25 shots for the Ducks, who again failed to get their first back-to-back wins since Nov. 1. Seventh-place Anaheim is 4-9-4 since then, and the Kings are just two points behind the Ducks at the bottom of the Pacific Division standings.
The Ducks beat the Kings 4-2 on Dec. 2 in the Southern California clubs' first derby of the season. Both matchups have featured a minimum of the heavy hitting and nasty play for which this rivalry is sometimes known, although Los Angeles'The Kings got the opening goal when Luff swooped in on a loose rebound of Toffoli's shot in Gibson's crease and scored his first goal in nine appearances this season.took a holding penalty to create a two-man advantage for the Kings.
Quick's bid for his first shutout since Jan. 5 ended when the Ducks finally connected with a sharp sequence of power-play passes culminating in a shot by Grant, who got his third goal in two games against the Kings this season.NOTES: Before the game, Anaheim assigned Dfor the second straight game. The 26-year-old NHL rookie took a hit to the head in Calgary last weekend. ...
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