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CALGARY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Arsenii Sergeev made 27 saves in his first NHL start, Zayne Parekh broke a third-period tie and the Calgary Flames beat the playoff-bound Kings 3-1 on Thursday<\/a> night to end the season.<\/p>\n

The Kings<\/a> learned during the game that they\u2019d be the second wild-card in the Western Conference and face NHL regular-season champion Colorado<\/a> in the first round \u2014 with Game 1 on Sunday in Denver.<\/p>\n

The Kings finished 35-27-20. Earlier Thursday, Edmonton took second place in the Pacific Division with a 6-1 home victory over Vancouver, and the Ducks won 5-4 at Nashville to finish third.<\/p>\n

Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee also scored for Calgary. The Flames finished 34-39-9.<\/p>\n

Kings star Anze Kopitar appeared in his final regular-season game, finishing with the seventh-most career points by a born and trained European player with 1,316. The leader of the category is Jaromir Jagr with 1,921.<\/p>\n

Quinton Byfield scored for the Kings, and Anton Forsberg made 18 saves.<\/p>\n

Frost opened the scoring at 5:21 of the second period on a power play with his 22nd of the season. Byfield tied it less than two minutes later with his 24th.<\/p>\n

Farabee scored into an empty net to reach 20 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Arsenii Sergeev made 27 saves in his first NHL start, Zayne Parekh broke a third-period tie and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[118114,27929,20862,18355,423,118113,106497,664,48,52,51,47,50,49,51715,11369,9011,118112,77187,776,4695],"class_list":{"0":"post-272353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-arsenii-sergeev","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-game","13":"tag-jaromir-jagr","14":"tag-joel-farabee","15":"tag-king","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-morgan-frost","23":"tag-quinton-byfield","24":"tag-save","25":"tag-season-finale","26":"tag-second-place","27":"tag-sunday","28":"tag-thursday-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}