- Kings fall to 0-4-2 with a 4-1 loss to the Bruins
- Los Angeles is now the NHL’s only winless team
- Read below for what Alex Laferriere and Peter Laviolette said about the skid
The Kings are the last team in the NHL still looking for a win.
Los Angeles fell to 0-4-2 on Saturday with a 4-1 loss to the Bruins at Crypto.com Arena, its sixth straight game without a victory. Alex Laferriere gave the Kings a 1-0 lead 31 seconds in, and Boston scored the next four.
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The Flyers finally snapped their own skid against Ottawa earlier in the night, which left Los Angeles as the lone team without a win. We flagged the Kings’ 0-3-2 start earlier this week, and it has only gotten worse.
Laferriere’s goal came on a pass from Adrian Kempe after the Kings moved him up to the first line with Kempe and Artemi Panarin. David Pastrnak tied it 2:43 into the second period, and Marat Khusnutdinov scored the winner with 6:24 left after Anton Forsberg failed to cover up a rebound. Elias Lindholm and JJ Peterka added empty-net goals.
Laferriere talked after the game about where the Kings are falling short.
“It’s easy to blame it on the bounces, but our work ethic is just not good enough right now. But when we start working harder we’re going to get those bounces, and I think that’s just what we got to do to turn it around.”
Laviolette explained how the game slipped away after that fast start.
“I mean, it’s a 1-1 game and they got the next one. For me, I would have liked to have seen it go a little bit more in a different direction earlier in the game when we had more chances. I thought in the second half of the game that their work was better than ours when it came for pucks and battles and speed.”
The offense is the biggest problem. Los Angeles has scored exactly one goal in each of its last four games, and the Kings have been without Kevin Fiala.
Saturday was also Laviolette’s 1,600th NHL game as a head coach. He is the eighth coach in League history to reach that mark, and he is still waiting on win No. 1 behind the Kings’ bench.
The next chance comes Tuesday in Washington.
