Drew Doughty scored with just under two minutes remaining, his second of the game, and the Los Angeles Kings rallied for a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Friday in Tempe, Ariz., after giving up four goals in the opening nine minutes.
Doughty’s blast from near the right point capped a run of four unanswered goals for the Kings, who defeated the Coyotes for the second time in four days.
Mikey Anderson, Quinton Byfield and Anze Kopitar also scored for the Kings, who improved to 3-0-0 on the road this season. Los Angeles goalie Pheonix Copley was pulled after allowing three goals in the opening 8:21. Cam Talbot yielded a goal that made it 4-1 just 34 seconds later before stopping all 16 shots he faced the rest of the way.
Adrian Kempe had two assists for Los Angeles, and Anderson and Byfield each added an assist.
Matias Maccelli scored 37 seconds into the game for the Coyotes, while J.J. Moser, Jack McBain and Sean Durzi all scored in a span of 1:09 in the opening period. However, Arizona never scored again and was outshot 41-24.
Moser finished with two points, and Coyotes goalie Karel Vejmelka made 36 saves.
Maccelli’s first goal of the season came when he took the puck at the right point on Arizona’s length-of-the-ice rush and beat Copley off the far left post. The Kings answered just over five minutes later when Anderson scored his first of the season.
The Coyotes’ started their three-goal blitz when Moser scored his first of the season at 7:46 of the first. McBain scored on a deflection 35 seconds later for his second of the season, chasing Copley.
Durzi then scored against his former team for a 4-1 advantage.
The Kings’ early hole came despite a 13-7 advantage in shots on goal in the first period. They had a 19-10 shots-on-goal advantage in the second period while getting a power-play goal from Doughty. The defenseman scored his second of the season at 16:11, cutting the deficit to 4-2.
Los Angeles pulled within 4-3 when Byfield scored at 1:50 of the third period, his second.
Kopitar’s game-tying goal, his fourth tally of the season, came at 6:54 of the third period. His shot from the top of the right circle through traffic was deflected into the goal off Coyotes defenseman Matt Dumba.
–Field Level Media
