Overview
- The Kings, who beat Vancouver 4-1 Thursday in Los Angeles, moved to 85 points and jumped one ahead of Nashville for the West’s second wild-card with four games left.
- Adrian Kempe scored 1:29 into the game and again with 28.2 seconds left in the second, extending a surge that has produced seven goals and two assists over a five-game point run.
- Anton Forsberg made 24 saves to secure his third straight victory since taking over in net, allowing only four goals across those starts.
- Los Angeles has won three in a row and gone 4-0-1 in its past five, and next hosts the division-leading Oilers on Saturday in a test that could cement its playoff path.
- Vancouver’s slide deepened to four straight losses and 10 in 11, with the team held to one goal or fewer in 20 games this season as Brock Boeser moved past Pavel Bure into eighth on the club’s all-time points list.