{"id":82566,"date":"2025-12-05T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:30:10","slug":"kings-offense-remains-in-a-slump-in-loss-to-chicago-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82566\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings’ offense remains in a slump in loss to Chicago Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Connor Bedard scored for the third straight games, Spencer Knight made 26 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Kings 2-1 on Thursday<\/a> night to open a two-game set.<\/p>\n

The teams will meet again Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n

Wyatt Kaiser had his first goal of the season to help Chicago win for the second time in three games<\/a> after losing five in a row. Frank Nazar had two assists.<\/p>\n

Trevor Moore scored, and Darcy Kuemper made 34 saves for the Kings<\/a>, who were held to two goals or fewer for the seventh time in nine games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Blackhawks scored twice in the second period. Bedard got his fifth power-play goal to open the scoring, attacking the crease and putting in Nazar\u2019s centering pass. Bedard has four goals and two assists in the last three games.<\/p>\n

Kaiser made it 2-0 with 5.1 seconds left after the Kings nearly scored when the puck got tangled up at Knight\u2019s feet and Phillip Danault couldn\u2019t convert a wraparound into the open net.<\/p>\n

The Kings welcomed top defenseman Drew Doughty back after he missed seven games because of a foot injury. Doughty was injured blocking a shot against Ottawa on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

Kings forward Warren Foegele also returned from a three-game absence because of an upper-body injury. He found Moore for a one-timer midway through the third, but it wasn\u2019t enough to help the Kings avoid their sixth loss in eight games.<\/p>\n

The Kings were 0 for 5 on the power play, which included Bedard\u2019s hooking penalty with 1:26 to go and failed to capitalize on a six-on-four advantage after pulling Kuemper for an extra attacker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Bedard scored for the third straight games, Spencer Knight made 26 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6265,2068,12234,6271,2641,12236,423,664,48,52,51,47,50,49,3289,9011,30512,46952,12235,18497,12265],"class_list":["post-82566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-assist","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-first-goal","tag-foot","tag-frank-nazar","tag-game","tag-king","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-loss","tag-save","tag-second-period","tag-slump","tag-spencer-knight","tag-trevor-moore","tag-wyatt-kaiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82566","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=82566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}