Philadelphia is six points behind the Detroit Red Wings for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like we\u2019re doing anything that much different than we\u2019ve been doing the whole year,\u201d Konecny said. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just a bounce here and there, and we\u2019re just playing hard and sticking to it. And there\u2019s nothing else we can do than win games right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Panarin also had an assist and extended his point streak to four games, and Anze Kopitar<\/a> and Quinton Byfield<\/a>\u00a0scored for the Kings (28-24-16), who are 4-3-2 since Jim Hiller was fired on March 6. Darcy Kuemper<\/a>\u00a0made 17 saves.<\/p>\n Los Angeles is one point ahead of the Seattle Kraken and Nashville Predators, and two ahead of the San Jose Sharks, for the second wild card from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, you got to just keep clawing at points,\u201d Smith said. \u201cYou lose in a shootout, you know, what are you going? At the end of the day, I think, the game for us, the point that was lost was in the second period. First and third, you know, the way we want to play. I thought the chances that we gave up tonight aren\u2019t the way that we\u2019ve been playing.\u201d<\/p>\n Byfield put the Kings ahead 1-0 at 19:31 of the first period on a wrist shot from the right circle. He has three points (one goal, two assists) in his past two games following a five-game drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia is six points behind the Detroit Red Wings for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-548866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548866","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=548866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}