Red-hot Kings defeat Jets to extend point streak to 11 games

Todd McLellan isn’t about to get enthused about his Los Angeles Kings squad tying the franchise mark for the longest point streak in franchise history.

Playing stout defence though is something the fourth-year coach can get excited about.

“That is something that we can hang our hats on and that we’re pleased about,” McLellan said. “We feel like we got to protect the goaltenders and help them out… That we will acknowledge and keep preaching, for sure.”

Viktor Arvidsson had two goals and Drew Doughty had a goal and an assist for Los Angeles, which has gone 9-0-2 during its streak. The last time the Kings had an 11-game point streak was 2013-14, when they won their second Stanley Cup.

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Coincidentally, the current streak started with a 6-5 shootout win over the Jets on Feb. 28.

“I think that for the majority of these games we’ve won, we’ve kind of outplayed the other team for almost 60 minutes, and that’s an important thing to be able to do, to take into the playoffs,” said Doughty, who has found the net in four of the last five games.

Alex Iafallo also scored for Los Angeles and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 25 shots.

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Pierre-Luc Dubois scored for Winnipeg and Connor Hellebuyck made 25 saves. The Jets are four points in front of Calgary for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, but are 5-5 in their last 10 games.

Arvidsson — who has 22 goals on the season — has four in the last four games.

His first goal came 82 seconds into the game. Trevor Moore won the face-off in the offensive zone and made a backhand pass to Arvidsson, who snapped it into the net from the back of the left face-off circle.

Arvidsson added an empty-net goal late in the third period.

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