When the Los Angeles Kings host the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night at Staples Center
Authentic David Pastrnak Jersey , they’ll try to pick up where they left off before the Christmas break. The Kings (14-20-3) have collected points in three
straight games for the first time this season, beating the visiting Winnipeg
Jets 4-1 followed by overtime wins at the San Jose Sharks and Vegas Golden
Knights on consecutive days last weekend.“It’s going to make the break that much
better and we feel really good in here,” Kings defenseman Drew Doughty told
reporters after the win against Vegas on Sunday. “At the same time, we can’t let
this break slow down our momentum. We’ve got to carry it through and carry it on
after.”Article continues below ...The Coyotes (16-18-2) won two in a row before
the break, beating the visiting Colorado Avalanche 6-4 on Saturday to end a
three-game losing streak before winning a shootout in San Jose on Sunday.“It
definitely boosts our confidence,” said Arizona forward Alex Galchenyuk, who
scored twice in regulation and had the only goal of the shootout against San
Jose. “We’re working hard, playing the right way, executing the game plan. We’re
a hard team to beat and we’re creating scoring chances, we’re going to the net
and playing solid in our own end. … We’ve got to keep going now. We’re not
satisfied. There’s still a lot of games to be played and we’ve got to keep
pushing.”The Coyotes have already won at Staples Center this season, beating the
Kings 2-1 on Dec. 4.Adin Hill made 25 saves in that game to improve to 4-0-0 in
his rookie season
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Monday.Darcy Kuemper likely will get the start against the Kings on Thursday. He
earned the win against San Jose after losing his previous six starts, though the
Coyotes were held to one goal in four of those outings and two in another.The
Kings remain last in the NHL in scoring at 2.30 goals a game, but they’ve done
better lately, scoring at least three goals in four straight games for the first
time this season.Despite a rocky first three months of the season, Los Angeles
is only eight points out of the final playoff spot in the Western
Conference.“You never know what can happen,” Doughty said. “We know that if we
can win, let’s say 15 out of 20, 17 out of 20, something like that, we might be
back in the picture. You never know, so we’ve just got to control what we’re
doing and win some hockey games.”The Coyotes are five points out of the final
playoff spot. They also realize they need to keep winning if they hope to reach
the playoffs for the first time since the 2011-12 season
Womens Patrice Bergeron Jersey , when they lost to the Kings in the Western Conference finals.“It’s going to be a big second half for us, a big push
mentally,” Arizona coach Rich Tocchet told reporters after the win against San
Jose. BOSTON (AP) Bruins forward Brad Marchand has used the past few days since
his team was eliminated in the second round in five games by the Tampa Bay
Lightning to reflect on his role in the loss.Marchand drew national attention
and a reprimand from the NHL after he was caught licking the face of Lightning
forward Ryan Callahan during a confrontation in the Lightning’s 4-3 overtime
Game 4 win that pushed the Bruins to the brink of elimination.For Marchand, who
scored 34 goals during the regular season and represented the Bruins at the
All-Star Game, the licking incident added to his list of infractions. He has
been suspended by the NHL six times and fined three.Now Marchand is thinking
about cleaning up his act.”After having a couple days kind of looking back on
the year and seeing what’s happened the last few days I guess, with all the
media and everything, I think the biggest thing for me now is to really take a
pretty hard look in the mirror and realize the actions, some of the things that
I’m doing, have much bigger consequences,” Marchand said during the Bruins���
breakup day at the Warrior Ice Arena on Wednesday.”Especially the last thing I
ever want to do is kind of bring the embarrassment on my teammates and the
organization that it did. I have to be a lot better. I know I’ve said that in
the past, but I think that that’s got to be the thing that I really work on the
most.”I think I’ve gotten my game into a pretty decent spot
Youth Brandon Carlo Jersey , but I got some character things and things that I’ve done that clearly need some fixing.”The Bruins may not have to change
much despite coming up short in their quest for their first Stanley Cup since
2011. They won 50 games for the 10th time in franchise history and finished
second in the Eastern Conference, one point behind Tampa Bay.They went 14-0-4
from Dec. 16 to Jan. 25, which was their longest point streak since they went 18
games (13 wins, five ties) without a loss from Dec. 28, 1968 to Feb. 5, 1969 and
tied for the second-longest point streak in team history.One year after losing
in the first round of the playoffs to the Ottawa Senators, the Bruins defeated
the Toronto Maple Leafs in seven games in the first round and advanced to the
second round of the playoffs for the first time since 2014.They accomplished
this while losing 304 regular-season man games to injury and integrating five
rookies to the lineup.”We started with some injuries as you saw. … But then we
got most of our guys back and we started playing with a full lineup and it
showed on the ice. We were slowly and surely climbing the standings,” Bruins
captain Zdeno Chara said.”We faced some challenges about three-fourths into
season again with some injuries, still we had guys filling the gaps and the
roles and we kept finding ways to win games. So that’s very positive about this
team and resiliency and never-give-up attitude.”Many Bruins players were still
coming to terms with being eliminated.Several others, including Patrice Bergeron
(groin), David Backes (concussion)
Karl Alzner Jersey Womens , Torey Krug (fractured ankle) and Marchand (groin), were dealing with injuries as often happens with Cup contending teams
this far into the playoffs.But to a man they were confident that there are
better things ahead for the Bruins, who have seven unrestricted free agents
among the 26 players that finished the season on their roster.”I think the thing
that we’re excited about next year is we have a lot of the team returning, which
is huge. It was a big learning experience for the young guys that came in,”
Marchand said.”A lot of highs and lows so it should be a learning experience for
them, and same with us (the veterans), we can always draw a lot from each and
every year. … So hopefully we can all bring the benefits from this season into
next year and be even better.”—
