The LA Kings lost their sixth consecutive game to begin the 2026-27 season, falling by a 4-1 final score against the Boston Bruins on Saturday evening at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n
It took just 31 seconds for the new-look top line to get on the board, as Alex Laferriere opened the scoring. After Laferriere fed forward Artemi Panarin for a controlled zone entry, the Kings went to work in the offensive end. Laferriere then skated to the front of the net and a deflected a point shot by defenseman Brandt Clarke, which was saved, but forward Adrian Kempe collected the rebound and fed Laferriere for the game-opening goal. <\/p>\n
Boston tied the game inside the first three minutes of the second period. Forward David Pastrnak converted on a solo effort, starting in his own defensive zone. The Czechia native got a tip on a puck along the wall, deflecting it out to center. Pastrnak then won the footrace to the puck in transition, skated into the offensive zone with possession and snapped a wrist shot from the top of the right-hand circle, inside the far post and in to tie the game 1-1.<\/p>\n
Late in the third period, the Bruins pulled ahead on a preventable goal in front of the Kings net. Goaltender Anton Forsberg made a save but couldn\u2019t control the rebound. As he went to try and pull it in, it looked like a Kings stick might\u2019ve knocked the puck loose, without an attempt to tie up sticks in front. Forward Maxim Khusnutdinov worked the puck free and slid it into an empty net for the go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n
Boston picked the empty net twice inside the final three minutes of regulation \u2013 with goals from forwards Elias Lindholm and JJ Peterka \u2013 sealing a 4-1 victory on the road.<\/p>\n
Hear from Laferriere, defenseman Mikey Anderson and Head Coach Peter Laviolette after tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Alex Laferriere<\/p>\n
Mikey Anderson
On his takeaways from tonight\u2019s defeat
Today, I thought the first period was good, obviously, the goal right away, you come out, you\u2019re ready to go. As a whole, I thought that period was good and then maybe foot off the gas a little bit. That\u2019s the thing, you get the one, you\u2019ve got to get the next one and try and keep pushing and get it going. Maybe we could have scored another one in the first, but we don\u2019t. Either way, you\u2019ve got to try and come out and keep going. I thought we let up just a bit too much.<\/p>\n
On why the team is unable to score more goals than it has
I feel like there\u2019s lots of ways you can go into it. Maybe it\u2019s some stuff we\u2019re doing, maybe we\u2019re trying to overcomplicate it, maybe a little bit less direct [than we need to be]. Sometimes, you\u2019ve got to give them credit, maybe they make a save, they make a good play defensively. I don\u2019t know if I have a set answer. I think it changes day to day, but that\u2019s on us to find a way to get the next goal and make a difference.<\/p>\n
On getting outplayed in the third period by a team that played last night
Yeah, it sucks. It\u2019s not acceptable for the group. We know they played last night, they\u2019re tail-end of a roadtrip. We come out good like we want to at home and then just lose it somewhere along the way. It\u2019s on the room. It\u2019s on us to make sure we\u2019re the ones dictating, trying to keep it where it\u2019s at. It\u2019s a level we\u2019ve got to find if we want to get out of where we\u2019re at.<\/p>\n
On balancing frustration with improvements
I mean, it\u2019s looking at the good and fixing the bad but just all the bad feels a lot worse when you don\u2019t get a result. It\u2019s trying to stay positive with what we\u2019re trying to do, stay positive with the group, with each other and build each other up to come out ready to go in Washington.<\/p>\n
Peter Laviolette
On his takeaways from tonight\u2019s game
It\u2019s a 1-1 game and then they got the next one. For me, I would have liked to have seen it go a little bit more in a different direction earlier in the game when we had more chances. I thought in the second half of the game that their work was better than ours, when it came to puck battles and speed. I would like to have seen it stretch out a little bit in the first half of the game, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s a close game. It\u2019s 1-1 and halfway through the third period and we\u2019ve got to get the next goal.<\/p>\n
On his team getting outworked by a team on the second half of a back-to-back
Yeah. That\u2019s frustrating and disappointing. <\/p>\n
On the top line tonight in their first game together
I thought that there were looks for them. I thought they had some chances and some looks. Like I said, it all seemed to fade as the game pushed on, which is I think, the bad taste that you leave the rink here with, is that we didn\u2019t push the way we needed to when the game was 1-1. We needed to push harder.<\/p>\n
On the overall challenges facing the group right now
I think we\u2019ve got to take it with us and stew on it a little bit. It\u2019s certainly not what we want to be. It\u2019s not what we were looking for tonight. Like I said, the start, I thought, was really good and on point and then as the second period rolled out, it just it seemed to tilt the other way. So, we\u2019ve got to be better. I don\u2019t think just pushing it away is going to do any good. We need to digest it and use it as fuel.<\/p>\n
Notes \u2013
\u2013 Forward Alex Laferriere (1-0=1) scored his second goal of the season 31 seconds into tonight\u2019s game, the Kings\u2019 earliest goal of the campaign. The 24-year-old forward has four points (2-2=4) in six games this season, tied with Artemi Panarin (3-1=4) and Adrian Kempe (1-3=4) for second on the team.
\u2013 Forward Adrian Kempe (0-1=1) posted his third assist of the campaign, his 478th career point (231-247=478), and is now one point shy of tying Jim Fox (186-293=479) for 11th-most in Kings history.
\u2013 Kempe\u2019s assist was his 328th even-strength point (177-151=328), tying Mike Murphy (135-193=328) for 10th-most even- strength point among all forwards in franchise history.
\u2013 Defenseman Brandt Clarke (0-1=1) earned his team-leading fourth assist and fifth point (1-4=5) of the campaign with a secondary helper on Laferriere\u2019s game-opening goal. The 23-year-old blueliner now has points in three straight games (1- 2=3), dating back to last Saturday in Las Vegas.
\u2013 Head Coach Peter Laviolette coached his 1,600th career regular-season game tonight, becoming the eighth head coach in NHL history to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Kings will travel to Washington, DC tomorrow, in advance of Tuesday\u2019s game against the Capitals. The team will return to the ice for practice on Monday, October 19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Kings lost their sixth consecutive game to begin the 2026-27 season, falling by a 4-1 final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-886508","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\/886508","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=886508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}