Sports News By: George Pappas Jr
Jonathan Quick stopped 40 shots, Drew Doughty scored and the Kings beat the Eastern Conference leading Flyers 1-0 on Sunday for their first regulation win in Philadelphia in nearly 18 years. The Kings win over the Flyers also snapped the Flyers’ three-game winning streak.
Mike Richards’ turnover behind the net led to Doughty’s goal. The defenceman fired a one-timer from the top of the slot past rookie goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. The Kings had a chance to go up 2-0 minutes later, but Bobrovsky did the splits to deny Wayne Simmonds on the right side. Bobrovsky finished the game with a save percentage of .96 and stopped 24 of the 25 shots the Kings fired at him.
The Flyers had a big chance to tie it during a 20-second 5-on-3 advantage in the second, but couldn’t break through. They went 0 for 4 overall with an advantage. In fact the Flyers kept going for the dump and chase approach while on the Power play, the Kings read the play perfectly after clearing the puck out of their zone time after time, leaving the Flyers power play unit tired.
“The (penalty) killers did a great job,” Kopitar said. “Quickie made some huge stops in the second period. It wasn’t a long 5-on-3, but winning the draws and clearing the puck frustrates them and frustrates the crowd. They started booing them and that’s where we sensed that we really were going to shut them down. It just kept going like that.”
It has to keep going like that if the Kings are going to reach the post-season. The victory pushed Los Angeles past idle Calgary and into ninth place in the tight Western Conference with 65 points.
Despite out shooting the Kings 40-25, the Flyers were shut out for the fifth time this season. They also were blanked in Tampa Bay on Feb. 1, which was also their last defeat before Sunday. The Philadelphia Flyers are the second highest scoring team in the league at 3.4 goals per game.
Flashback: It was Los Angeles’ first regulation win in Philadelphia since April 1, 1993. That game was replayed in its entirety after blizzard conditions shattered a pane of glass on the Philadelphia Spectrum concourse after the first period on the originally scheduled date of March 13, 1993. The Kings won the replay 3-1. … The Flyers are 82-37-15-2 all-time vs. Los Angeles.
Jonathan Quick stopped 40 shots, Drew Doughty scored and the Kings beat the Eastern Conference leading Flyers 1-0 on Sunday for their first regulation win in Philadelphia in nearly 18 years. The Kings win over the Flyers also snapped the Flyers’ three-game winning streak.
Mike Richards’ turnover behind the net led to Doughty’s goal. The defenceman fired a one-timer from the top of the slot past rookie goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. The Kings had a chance to go up 2-0 minutes later, but Bobrovsky did the splits to deny Wayne Simmonds on the right side. Bobrovsky finished the game with a save percentage of .96 and stopped 24 of the 25 shots the Kings fired at him.
The Flyers had a big chance to tie it during a 20-second 5-on-3 advantage in the second, but couldn’t break through. They went 0 for 4 overall with an advantage. In fact the Flyers kept going for the dump and chase approach while on the Power play, the Kings read the play perfectly after clearing the puck out of their zone time after time, leaving the Flyers power play unit tired.
“The (penalty) killers did a great job,” Kopitar said. “Quickie made some huge stops in the second period. It wasn’t a long 5-on-3, but winning the draws and clearing the puck frustrates them and frustrates the crowd. They started booing them and that’s where we sensed that we really were going to shut them down. It just kept going like that.”
It has to keep going like that if the Kings are going to reach the post-season. The victory pushed Los Angeles past idle Calgary and into ninth place in the tight Western Conference with 65 points.
Despite out shooting the Kings 40-25, the Flyers were shut out for the fifth time this season. They also were blanked in Tampa Bay on Feb. 1, which was also their last defeat before Sunday. The Philadelphia Flyers are the second highest scoring team in the league at 3.4 goals per game.
Flashback: It was Los Angeles’ first regulation win in Philadelphia since April 1, 1993. That game was replayed in its entirety after blizzard conditions shattered a pane of glass on the Philadelphia Spectrum concourse after the first period on the originally scheduled date of March 13, 1993. The Kings won the replay 3-1. … The Flyers are 82-37-15-2 all-time vs. Los Angeles.
