Kings knock off Ducks, pad hold on third place in Pacific

David Rittich made 28 saves for the Los Angeles Kings in a 3-1 win against the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night.

Pierre-Luc Dubois, Matt Roy and Kevin Fiala scored for the Kings (43-26-11, 97 points), who moved three points ahead of the Vegas Golden Knights for third place in the Pacific Division with two games left for Los Angeles and three for Vegas.

Los Angeles, which clinched its third straight berth in the postseason with a 4-1 win against the Calgary Flames on Thursday, has won eight straight at home, the longest home-winning streak since Los Angeles won its first eight home games to start the 2010-11 season.

Trevor Zegras scored and Lukas Dostal made 25 saves for the Ducks (26-50-5, 57 points), who were coming off a 6-3 loss to the visiting Flames on Friday and have lost 9 of 11 overall (2-7-2).

Anaheim rookie defenseman Olen Zellweger was in the penalty box for tripping Quinton Byfield when Dubois scored to give the Kings a 1-0 lead at 2:45 of the second period.

Viktor Arvidsson and Adrian Kempe batted the puck around in front of the crease until it came to Dubois at the side of the net, and he swiped it into the net for his 16th goal of the season.

The Kings extended the lead to 2-0 at 10:33 of the second period.

Roy took a shot from just inside the blue line that hit teammate Blake Lizotte, who retrieved the puck and passed it back to Roy. He took another slap shot from in front of the blue line, and this one got through the traffic and hit the net for his fifth goal of the season.

Zegras scored for the second time in three games and prevented Rittich's fourth shutout of the season when he scored with a wrist shot from the left circle to cut it to 2-1 at 11:18 of the third period.

Fiala scored on a wraparound with 2:18 left in the game to extend the lead to 3-1.

—Field Level Media