{"id":606112,"date":"2026-04-14T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:11:09","slug":"kings-clinch-playoff-berth-with-win-against-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606112\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings clinch playoff berth with win against Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Byfield then made it 2-0 at 13:19 after Seattle forward Jordan Eberle<\/a>\u2019s pass intended for Lindgren at the Los Angeles blue line hopped over Lindgren\u2019s stick. Skating in on a breakaway, Byfield deked to his left and chipped back to his right to put the puck under Kokko\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Q\u2019s’ line, in general, had been good for a long time, playing against other teams\u2019 top lines,\u201d Smith said, “and tonight, they go off, so it\u2019s been a lot of good performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore pushed it to 3-0 at 7:13 of the second period. Laferriere\u2019s snap shot from the top of the slot missed the net but bounced off the end boards to Moore in the left circle, where he shot it over Kokko\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood bounce,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI mean, \u2018Laf\u2019 was just skating up there, made a good move, ripped it, lively boards. It popped all the way out there, and I just got some good wood on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larsson cut the deficit to 3-1 at 1:53 of the third period, taking a feed from Beniers at the point and sending a wrist shot through traffic and inside the left post.<\/p>\n

Gaudreau got Seattle to within 3-2 at 8:08.\u00a0Ryan Winterton<\/a> forced a turnover behind the net to Kaapo Kakko<\/a>, who made a cross-crease pass to Gaudreau at the left post for a tap-in goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to play with him,\u201d Kakko said of Gaudreau. \u201cI mean, I feel like we kind of think the same on the ice. I already know where he is, and he knows where I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kempe responded off a 2-on-1 with Anze Kopitar<\/a> at 12:29, snapping the captain’s feed through Kokko\u2019s five-hole from the right circle to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was dicey there for a while,\u201d Moore said. \u201cReally proud of our group for sticking together, and believing in ourselves and going on this run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Byfield then made it 2-0 at 13:19 after Seattle forward Jordan Eberle\u2019s pass intended for Lindgren at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-606112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}