{"id":383250,"date":"2026-01-02T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383250\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:46:20","slug":"lightning-get-past-kings-in-3rd-to-win-6th-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383250\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning get past Kings in 3rd to win 6th in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jeff-malott-8482408\" title=\"Jeff Malott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Malott<\/a>, who was a healthy scratch the past six games, tied it 1-1 at 4:43. After Perry forced a turnover by Tampa Bay defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/declan-carlile-8483398\" title=\"Declan Carlile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Declan Carlile<\/a> on the forecheck, Malott got to the loose puck, spun and scored with a wrist shot from the high slot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Mally&#8217; goes in, forechecks, finished the check,\u201d Hiller said. \u201c&#8217;Pers&#8217; is there to pick up the breakout under pressure and then Mally is able to reload and grab the puck, and a really nice shot. So, those are the types of goals, you call them fourth-line goals, you want to see. You want to see a forecheck, you want to see physicality and I thought he showed a great scoring touch on top of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kuzmenko then gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 6:14. Perry&#8217;s tip was stopped by Johansson, but Kuzmenko chipped the rebound into the net from the bottom of the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our PK has been pretty darn good this year and they solved us,&#8221; Cooper said of the Kings. &#8220;A little bit of our own doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay tied it 2-2 at 18:07 of the second period. Kuemper was caught on the wrong side of the crease when the puck went behind the net and Point scored into the open right side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re sticking to our structure,&#8221; Cirelli said. &#8220;We found a little groove of the right way that we need to play in order to be a good team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Malott, who was a healthy scratch the past six games, tied it 1-1 at 4:43. After Perry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-383250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}