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Kopitar passed Bobby Orr (645) into 69th place
on the NHL's all-time list with his 646th career assist. It was
also the 117th multi-assist game of his career.
Tomas Nosek scored a goal and Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 28
saves for Vegas. The West Division-leading Golden Knights played
without leading goal scorer Max Pacioretty, who was a late
scratch with a lower-body injury after blocking a shot near his
left ankle at the end of the team's 4-2 win over the Kings on
Friday.
Los Angeles scored twice 51 seconds apart early in the second
period to take a 2-0 lead. The first came during a goalmouth
scrum that saw Fleury turn away two shots before Walker, while
falling on his stomach, backhanded in a rebound inside the left
post for his first goal of the season.
Vegas challenged the score for goaltender interference but was
denied and was assessed a minor delay-of-game penalty. Brown
then scored his eighth power-play goal and 14th goal of the
season with an easy tap-in by the right post off an Alex Iafallo
pass across the crease.
The Kings nearly made it 3-0 later in the second period but
Fleury kicked away Blake Lizotte's point-blank, short-handed
try.
Chandler Stephenson was initially awarded a power-play goal for
Vegas early in the third period, but it was overturned after
video replay showed Drew Doughty had kicked the puck away by the
left post before dislodging the net for a delay-of-game penalty.
The Kings then killed off 91 seconds of a 5-on-3 power play.
Nosek cut it to 2-1 with 3:27 remaining with a rebound off his
hip of his own shot from near the left post. But Carter made it
3-1 just 55 seconds later when he picked up a loose puck and
then beat Fleury with a backhand shot five-hole on a breakaway
for his sixth goal of the season.
--Field Level Media
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