The Kings were at their best Monday night, nearly silencing Edmonton's Connor McDavid, the NHL scoring leader, for their ninth win in 12 games.
and got a superb performance from a penalty-killing unit that has sometimes sabotaged otherwise strong efforts.
“When he’s on, he can dominate games,” Doughty said of Fiala. “He’s very good. Good vision, good shot. He’s one of the better one-on-one guys I’ve played with in my career. I thought he dominated [Monday]. He was unbelievable. He could have had seven, eight points, I thought, and he was amazing.”last summer, enjoyed the high tension. “I think it was a playoff game right now. Lot of emotions. Lot of physical,” he said.
Coach Todd McLellan pointed to the individual improvement shown by Fiala since the start of this season and the larger growth of the team. Fiala, whose defensive play can be shaky, has been paying more attention to his defensive responsibilities. That’s a good sign for a team that is intent on building around its defense and somehow is second in the Pacific Division despite having a minus-one goal differential.“The whole team played to score.
Fiala capped a sequence of quick, precise puck movement with a shot from the right circle that got past goalie Stuart Skinner at 9:21 of the first period.was credited with the second assist, the 1,100th point of his NHL career. He’s only the fifth active skater who has reached that number, after Alex Ovechkin , Sidney Crosby , Patrick Kane and Evgeni Malkin . The point also was Fiala’s 600th at home, by whichever sponsor name the arena carries.
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