Quick Dominates As Kings Beat Canadiens, 3-0
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonathan Quick made a season-high 45 saves, Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty scored and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Montreal Canadiens, 3-0, on Thursday night.
The shutout was Quick's second of the season. Marian Gaborik added an empty-net goal to help the Kings improve to 20-9-2.
Mike Condon made 17 saves for Montreal and has lost four straight starts.
The Canadiens have lost six of their last seven games and scored just 11 goals over that stretch. They fell to 20-10-3.
Quick was sensational throughout the game. Montreal hit him with 18 shots in the first period en route to a season-high for shots on goal.
Quick stopped Tomas Plekanec with the glove late in the first and denied Torrey Mitchell from point-blank range in the second.
Quick stopped 15 shots in the third period. He made an acrobatic stop at 2:30 to poke the puck off the goal line after a shot by Habs captain Max Pacioretty. Minutes later, Quick made a pad save on Alex Galchenyuk on a breakaway.
Condon was solid in his first start in over a week, but two quick goals by the Kings in the second period dropped the home side.
After a hard-hitting, scoreless first period, the visitors got on the board at 14:47 of the second. As P.K. Subban stepped out of the penalty box, Doughty rifled a shot from the blue line into the top of the net.
Kopitar added Los Angeles' second goal less than 2 minutes later. Kopitar took advantage of blown coverage by defenseman Alexei Emelin to walk in alone and beat Condon for his ninth goal of the season.
Kopitar has 13 points in his last 13 games.
Notes: Montreal is 0 for 21 on the power play in its last seven games. ... L.A. leads the Pacific Division. ... Montreal's lead in the Atlantic is down to five points. ... The Kings are 13-1-0 when leading after two periods. ... Montreal now embarks on an eight-game trip, starting in Dallas on Saturday.
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