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This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Washington Capitals vs. Los Angeles Kings game on March 6, 2023.Good times have hit the Washington Capitals.With a win against the Los Angeles Kings, the Capitals will have their first three-game winning streak since their exemplary December.

Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron recorded his 1,000th career point in the National Hockey League on Monday night in the Bruins' 5-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.After the career Bruin grabbed the assist that fully stamped his spot in hockey history, the team posted a video of fellow 1,000-point club members from around the league congratulating him on the achievement.

There really isn't much doubt about the best series in the playoffs so far.It has been the matchup between the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings in almost every way imaginable.This series had incredible skill on both sides, tenacious effort, and amazing speed.In the end, the Oilers came out on top in six games.

STATS Record: 13-21-8Streak: W1Goals Leader: Timo Meier (23 G, 18 A)Assists Leader: Erik Karlsson (13 G, 42 A)Power Play: 20.2%Penalty Kill: 84.6%Goals For/60: 3.03Goals Against/60: 3.59Shots For/60: 29.48Shots Against/60: 29.78
LINES Timo Meier - Tomas Hertl - Kevin LabancMatt Nieto - Logan Couture - Alexander BarabanovNick Bonino - Nico Sturm - Michael EyssimontJonah Gadjovich - Steven Lorentz - Oskar Lindblom
Jaycob Megna - Erik KarlssonMario Ferraro - Matt BenningScott Harrington - Marc-Edouard Vlasic
James ReimerKaapo Kahkonen
Expected Scratches:Injured Reserve:STATS Nikolai Knyzhov (Achilles), Markus Nutivaara (lower body), Radim Simek (upper body) LINES Evgeny Svechnikov, Nick Cicek, Noah Gregor Record: 24-14-6Streak: W2Goals Leader: Adrian Kempe (17 G, 11 A)Assists Leader: Kevin Fiala (15 G, 31 A)Power Play: 24.7%Penalty Kill: 73.4%Goals For/60: 3.22Goals Against/60: 3.31Shots For/60: 31.84Shots

The Kings' dismissal of the Edmonton Oilers on Monday felt like much more than one of 82 games, more than a nice, dry place to go on a rainy night in Los Angeles.It was a statement.It was the Kings at their best, doing good things big and small while they nearly silenced runaway NHL scoring leader Connor McDavid and got a superb performance from a penalty-killing unit that has sometimes sabotaged otherwise strong efforts.

BOSTON - The Boston Bruins lost another home shootout Thursday night, falling, 3-2, to the Los Angeles at TD Garden.The Bruins improved their NHL-best record to 23-4-2, while the Kings fell to 16-12-5.ONE BIG TAKEAWAYThe Bruins have been the best third period team in hockey this season, holding an undefeated when entering the third period with a lead.

The Bruins are back in action Thursday night as they hope to win their third-straight game.Boston will take on the Los Angeles Kings at TD Garden after beating the Islanders in a shootout Tuesday.Jake DeBrusk led the Black and Gold with two goals and one assist against New York, and it was David Pastrnak that scored the game-winner in the shootout.

The Edmonton Oilers won game five over the Los Angeles Kings to enter game six with a chance to eliminate them.Guys like Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are really starting to heat up which is bad news for the rest of the Western Conference if they are able to advance.You can bet that the Los Angeles Kings are not going to go down without a fight though.

Jonathan Quick's performance during the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs was nothing short of a goaltending masterclass.Very rarely has a team's championship been on the back of its goalie as much as the Los Angeles Kings ' was on Quick's (honorable mention to Cam Ward and the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes).With today's push towards "just good enough" goaltending for some contending teams, we might be seeing fewer performances like the one that made Quick the greatest goalie in Los Angeles Kings franchise history.

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In almost any other situation, in almost any other game, Quinton Byfield and the Kings would have celebrated his third-period goal Tuesday night against Edmonton with rounds of hugs and cheers instead of quick fist-bumps and a respectful tap or two on his helmet.

Funny how the puck bounces, eh?A day after the Kings traded two-time Stanley Cup winner Jonathan Quick to Columbus to upgrade their goaltending for what they hope will be a long playoff run they learned Quick had been traded again - and is now in position to block their postseason path.The Blue Jackets, rebuilding as they sit at the bottom of the NHL East, acquired Quick from the Kings on Wednesday for draft picks, goalie Joonas Korpisalo and defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov.

Game Thread
The Rangers have looked bad the last few games, with yesterday's clunker in Washington possibly the worst we've seen the Rangers all season.It won't get better soon, as the Blueshirts are likely to play today's game against the LA Kings with a short handed blue line
To clear the necessary cap space for Patrick Kane, the Rangers traded Vitali Kravtsov and waived Jake Leschyshyn yesterday.

Game ThreadThe Rangers stay in California tonight, looking to extend their winning streak to....two.The Kings are much better than advertised, and have played solid defensive hockey of late.Given the Rangers are starved for offense and continually sit a skilled top ten pick in favor of fourth liners in the top six, it's not a good matchup for them.

DENVER (AP) - Cale Makar and Valeri Nichushkin each had a goal and three assists to help the Colorado Avalanche snap a three-game slide with a 6-0 rout of the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Denis Malgin and Artturi Lehkonen also got into the goal-scoring act.The Avalanche outshot the Sharks by a 43-13 margin, including 19-2 in the opening period when they took a 3-0 lead.

DENVER (AP) - Cale Makar and Valeri Nichushkin each had a goal and three assists to help the Colorado Avalanche snap a three-game slide with a 6-0 rout of the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Denis Malgin and Artturi Lehkonen also got into the goal-scoring act.The Avalanche outshot the Sharks by a 43-13 margin, including 19-2 in the opening period when they took a 3-0 lead.

Over the weekend, Sharks coach David Quinn became demonstrably upset at NHL referee Gord Dwyer.Tuesday, it was Erik Karlsson's turn.Early in the third period of what became a 6-0 Sharks loss to Colorado at Ball Arena in Denver, Karlsson took a stick to the face from an Avalanche player that drew blood.

SAN JOSE -- Viktor Arvidsson and Jaret Anderson-Dolan each had a goal and an assist for the Los Angeles Kings in a 5-2 win against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on Friday.Sean Durzi had two assists, and Jonathan Quick made 29 saves for the Kings (12-9-2), who had lost three straight."It was a good road game," Los Angeles coach Todd McLellan said.

SAN JOSE, Calif.(AP)  Jaret Anderson-Dolan had a goal and an assist for his first two points of the season and the Los Angeles Kings beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Friday night.Phillip Dananult, Victor Arvidsson, Anze Kopitar and Rasmus Kupari also scored for the Kings, and Jonathan Quick made 29 saves.

Trevor Moore was a pending unrestricted free agent heading into next summer, but the Los Angeles Kings made their intentions clear that they wanted him on board.He signed a five-year extension with the organization, with an average annual value of $4.2 million.Moore has become a fan favorite because of his style of play, and because he is the first player from Southern California to truly make a difference with the team.

Gabe Vilardi was the Los Angeles Kings' first-round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, 11th overall.He immediately became one of the organization's best prospects after the cupboard was barren for a few years.It's been over five years since that draft, and a lot has changed, both for the Kings and Vilardi himself.

It's easy to forget, now that Kings forward Gabriel Vilardi is dominating entire shifts and controlling the puck as if it were magnetized to his stick, that a bad back nearly ended his career before it could truly begin.The problems that scared some NHL teams and led him to drop from a projected top-five pick in the 2017 draft to No. 11 lingered ominously, costing him precious training time and experience.

Happy Tuesday, folks.American Thanksgiving is in sight.You're almost there.The Bruins gave you something to be thankful for last night, starting off their nine-game gauntlet with a 5-3 win over Tampa.While it wasn't a wire-to-wire performance (Tampa tilted the ice early on), it was one of those games where once the Bruins turned it on, the opposition couldn't do much to slow them down.

Los Angeles Kings @ Toronto Maple Leafs07:00 PM at Scotiabank ArenaWatch on: TVAS, TSN4, BSW
Opponent's Site: Jewels From The Crown
The Leafs last game was an away game on December 6 against the Dallas Stars, which Toronto won by a score of 4-0.The Leafs have a record of 16-5-6 so far.The Los Angeles Kings last played an away game on December 6 against the Ottawa Senators.