{"id":599828,"date":"2026-04-22T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:45:17","slug":"kings-have-to-find-a-way-to-win-after-valiant-effort-comes-up-short-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599828\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings \u2018have to find a way to win\u2019 after valiant effort comes up short in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive game, however, Panarin was the only one to score.<\/p>\n

Still, the Kings, the second wild card in the West, appeared poised to even the series against the Presidents\u2019 Trophy-winning Avalanche, but that hope, their slim lead, their first lead of the playoffs, lasted just 3:21.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog<\/a>, wide open on Forsberg\u2019s stick side, tied it 1-1 at 16:25.<\/p>\n

The Kings did look like the better team at the start in overtime, something that shouldn\u2019t be surprising, considering they played an\u00a0NHL-record 33 overtimes during the regular season. But as they did in 20 of those regular-season overtimes, they lost.<\/p>\n

This time, it was Roy banging home a loose puck in the crease, starting Colorado’s celebration and sending Los Angeles back to its dressing room and back home trailing 2-0 in the best-of-7 series.<\/p>\n

The Kings are frustrated but not totally deflated. They\u2019re hoping being back in front of their fans will help them gain an edge. One location or another, however, they need more players to finish those opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we did play really well, and we\u2019ll get last (line) change and we can get our\u00a0matchups a little bit better,” Smith said. “And we\u2019re going to have to roll four lines over and be physical again. We have to find a way to win. Clearly, good isn\u2019t enough. But we have to win a game and keep taking a piece of them and keep playing physical, but within the rules and give ourselves a chance to keep lengthening the series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second consecutive game, however, Panarin was the only one to score. Still, the Kings, the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-599828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}