QUICK GETS 301ST WIN AS KINGS BEAT PENGUINS 5-2

LOS ANGELES 5, PITTSBURGH 2

WHEN: 10:30 PM ET, Saturday, January 12, 2019 WHERE: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California REFEREES: T.J. Luxmore, Dan O'Halloran LINESMEN: Devin Berg, Jesse Marquis ATTENDANCE: 18414

Jeff Carter had a goal and two assists, and Anze Kopitar added a pair of goals as the Los Angeles Kings scored in each period to earn a 5-2 home victory over the red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins.

Alex Iafallo and Brendan Leipsic added goals as the Kings won for the second time in six January games.

Jake Guentzel had two goals for the Penguins, who entered with a victory in 10 of their last 11 games and were coming off a rally from a three-goal deficit Friday at Anaheim against the Ducks. Guentzel had a hat trick in Pittsburgh's victory Friday.

Rallying from a three-goal deficit for a second consecutive night proved too difficult for the Penguins, who were coming off a season-high seven goal game. Pittsburgh did outshoot the Kings 21-5 in the final period.

The Kings took a 4-1 lead 49 seconds into the third period when Leipsic took a no-look redirection from Ilya Kovalchuk and scored into a wide-open goal past Penguins goaltender Casey DeSmith. The goal was Leipsic's fourth of the season.

Guentzel's productive trip to Southern California continued 5:30 into Saturday's game, when he delivered a short-handed goal for a 1-0 Penguins lead. The left wing took off on a two-on-one with Sidney Crosby and cleaned up a loose puck in front of Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick for the score.

Carter tied the score 1-1 with an unassisted goal, his ninth, just over five minutes later when he forced a turnover at the Kings blue line and worked his way outside the right circle in the Penguins zone before beating DeSmith with a slapshot.

Iafallo scored his 10th of the season at 8:47 of the second period for a 2-1 Kings lead, and Kopitar added a short-handed goal at 16:05 of the second period to increase the advantage to 3-1. Iafallo's goal was his first since Dec. 23.

After Leipsic made it 4-1, Guentzel cut the Los Angeles advantage in half after taking a feed from Phil Kessel from behind the Kings goal and scoring into a wide-open net. Guentzel's goal was his 23rd of the season.

Kopitar added the final goal unassisted in the closing minute when he delivered into a empty net, his 13th.

Quick had 38 saves for the Kings in the win. DeSmith stopped 20 of 24 shots faced.

The Penguins are now 1-1 on their five-game West Coast road trip that will take them into the All-Star break.

TOP GAME PERFORMANCES

PITTSBURGH		LOS ANGELES
Jake Guentzel 2	Points	Jeff Carter 3
Jake Guentzel 2	Goals	Anze Kopitar 2
Sidney Crosby 1	Assists	Jeff Carter 2
Jake Guentzel 1	Power Play Goals	N/A
Jake Guentzel 1	Short Handed Goals	Anze Kopitar 1
Casey DeSmith .833	Save Percentage	Jonathan Quick .950
Casey DeSmith 20	Saves	Jonathan Quick 38

TEAM STATS SUMMARY

TEAM	SHOTS	GOALS	POWER PLAY	PENALTY KILL	PENALTY MINS	FACE OFFS WON
Pittsburgh	40	2	1-4	3-3	11	22
Los Angeles	25	5	0-3	3-4	13	29

MY 3 STARS OF THE GAME

1^st star:  Jeff Carter C – LA, 1 Goals, 2 Assists

2^nd star: Jake Muzzin D – LA, 0 Goals, 2 Assists

3^rd star:  Jake Guentzel C – PIT, 2 Goals, 0 Assists

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST PERIOD 5:30 Penguins Jake Guentzel (22) (Shorthanded) Assists: Sidney Crosby, Jack Johnson 1 0 10:58 Kings Jeff Carter (9) Unassisted 1 1

2ND PERIOD 8:47 Kings Alex Iafallo (10) Assists: Jeff Carter, Jake Muzzin 1 2 16:05 Kings Anze Kopitar (12) (Shorthanded) Assists: Jeff Carter 1 3

3RD PERIOD 0:49 Kings Brendan Leipsic (4) Assists: Ilya Kovalchuk, Jake Muzzin 1 4 9:20 Penguins Jake Guentzel (23) (Power Play) Assists: Phil Kessel, Evgeni Malkin 2 4 19:13 Kings Anze Kopitar (13) Assists: Dustin Brown 2            5

FINAL SCORING SUMMARY

FINAL	1	2	3	T
PITTSBURGH	1	0	1	2
LOS ANGELES	1	2	2	5

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player	POS	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	SHF	TOI	EV	PP	SH	PP	SH	HT	BS	FW	FL	FO%
Casey DeSmith	G	0	0	0		0	0		58:34	46:12	6:22	6:00	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Matt Murray	G	0	0	0		0	0		0:00	0:00	0:00	0:00	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Olli Maatta	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	25	18:02	13:44	2:03	2:15	0	0	2	4	-	-	-
Jamie Oleksiak	D	0	0	0	E	0	1	19	14:23	13:32	0:00	0:51	0	0	2	1	-	-	-
Matt Cullen	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	15	9:33	7:09	0:00	2:24	0	0	-	-	1	6	14
Brian Dumoulin	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	24	19:33	16:54	0:00	2:39	0	0	-	1	-	-	-
Garrett Wilson	LW	0	0	0	-1	0	0	11	7:09	5:01	0:00	2:08	0	0	2	-	-	-	-
Dominik Simon	LW	0	0	0	E	0	1	21	15:55	14:02	1:53	0:00	0	0	1	-	-	-	-
Tanner Pearson	LW	0	0	0	E	0	2	21	15:51	13:49	1:53	0:09	0	0	2	1	-	-	-
Riley Sheahan	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	16	11:55	9:47	0:00	2:08	0	0	-	1	1	2	33
Bryan Rust	RW	0	0	0	-2	0	3	22	18:38	16:26	0:00	2:12	0	0	1	-	1	0	100
Derick Brassard	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	19	12:16	10:23	1:53	0:00	0	0	2	-	4	5	44
Marcus Pettersson	D	0	0	0	-2	5	3	22	16:26	15:09	1:17	0:00	0	0	1	-	-	-	-
Derek Grant	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	9	5:37	5:25	0:00	0:12	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Kris Letang	D	0	0	0	-3	0	7	31	27:51	19:47	4:19	3:45	0	0	-	1	-	-	-
Jake Guentzel	LW	2	0	2	-2	0	6	25	22:46	16:58	4:29	1:19	1	1	3	-	0	1	0
Evgeni Malkin	C	0	1	1	-3	2	4	23	20:41	16:03	4:29	0:09	0	0	-	-	2	5	29
Jack Johnson	D	0	1	1	-1	0	0	27	17:50	14:44	0:36	2:30	0	0	1	-	-	-	-
Phil Kessel	RW	0	1	1	-3	0	1	18	17:14	12:45	4:29	0:00	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Sidney Crosby	C	0	1	1	-1	0	4	27	23:46	17:58	4:29	1:19	0	0	3	1	13	10	57

Los Angeles Kings

Player	POS	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	SHF	TOI	EV	PP	SH	PP	SH	HT	BS	FW	FL	FO%
Jonathan Quick	G	0	0	0		0	0		60:00	47:38	6:00	6:22	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Jack Campbell	G	0	0	0		0	0		0:00	0:00	0:00	0:00	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Dion Phaneuf	D	0	0	0	E	0	2	20	12:57	12:48	0:09	0:00	0	0	1	1	-	-	-
Jake Muzzin	D	0	2	2	+3	0	1	25	20:08	14:39	2:10	3:19	0	0	2	5	-	-	-
Oscar Fantenberg	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	20	13:12	12:23	0:00	0:49	0	0	-	2	-	-	-
Drew Doughty	D	0	0	0	+1	2	1	29	28:45	21:34	4:47	2:24	0	0	1	1	-	-	-
Adrian Kempe	C	0	0	0	E	0	4	18	12:48	10:24	2:24	0:00	0	0	1	-	2	4	33
Anze Kopitar	C	2	0	2	+2	2	3	29	24:28	18:41	3:13	2:34	0	1	1	2	12	11	52
Kyle Clifford	LW	0	0	0	E	0	2	9	5:57	5:34	0:23	0:00	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
Brendan Leipsic	LW	1	0	1	+3	4	1	19	10:39	8:55	1:44	0:00	0	0	1	1	-	-	-
Ilya Kovalchuk	LW	0	1	1	E	0	1	21	20:53	17:31	3:22	0:00	0	0	1	-	-	-	-
Alex Iafallo	LW	1	0	1	+3	0	2	22	13:48	12:19	1:29	0:00	0	0	2	-	-	-	-
Dustin Brown	RW	0	1	1	E	0	0	27	22:51	17:34	2:56	2:21	0	0	3	-	-	-	-
Derek Forbort	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	26	23:28	20:11	0:14	3:03	0	0	-	3	-	-	-
Alec Martinez	D	0	0	0	+2	0	2	23	16:50	13:41	0:00	3:09	0	0	1	1	-	-	-
Nate Thompson	C	0	0	0	E	0	0	20	12:57	10:18	0:23	2:16	0	0	-	-	5	0	100
Carl Hagelin	LW	0	0	0	E	0	0	17	12:32	10:52	0:00	1:40	0	0	1	-	-	-	-
Matt Luff	RW	0	0	0	E	5	0	11	7:44	7:30	0:14	0:00	0	0	1	-	-	-	-
Tyler Toffoli	RW	0	0	0	E	0	3	19	15:24	10:46	2:30	2:08	0	0	-	-	1	0	100
Jeff Carter	C	1	2	3	+2	0	2	26	18:17	12:30	4:02	1:45	0	0	1	1	9	7	56

Goaltending

Pittsburgh
	Shots	Saves	GA	SV %	PIM	TOI
Casey DeSmith L (12-8-4)	24	20	4	.833	0	58:34

Los Angeles
	Shots	Saves	GA	SV %	PIM	TOI
Jonathan Quick W (8-11-2)	40	38	2	.950	0	60:00