The disappointment of falling to the Sharks on Tuesday was short-lived, as the Kings bounced back just 24 hours after beating the Vegas Golden Knights 6-3 at home. It was an impressive performance for the Kings as they defeated the red-hot Pacific Division leaders 7-2-1 who entered the night on a four-game winning streak and a five-game point streak. One Golden Knights streak that the Kings helped extend was their road losing streak as they are still looking for their first win away from Sin City, now 0-3-1 on the season.

The Kings were able to take the lead on Wednesday with a pair of first-half goals and did so quickly. Just after the midpoint of the period, a pass from Quinton Byfield to Warren Foegele simply failed to connect, but forced Golden Knights goalie Ilya Samsonov to play the puck. With Foegele hard in front control, Samsonov failed to clear and pushed the puck back to the Kings front. Foegele reacted quickly by turning and returning the puck to the net with his backhand through Samsonov’s five hole, giving the Kings a 1-0 lead. The Kings needed just 42 seconds to double their lead when Adrian Kempe fired a wrist shot off a moving screen from Alex Turcotte in the middle lane.

The Kings scored another pair of goals in the second half and, like the first, they did it twice in less than a minute. Again reaching the midpoint of the period, the Kings extended their lead to 3-0 when Alex Laferriere scored his team-leading sixth goal of the season with the help of assists from Mikey Anderson and the aforementioned Byfield. Just 44 seconds after that, Brandt Clarke made a sensational spin play in the slot and set up Anze Kopitar’s backdoor to put the Kings up 4-0. The Golden Knights got on the scoreboard late in the period with former King Tanner Pearson burying a goal to make it 4-1 in the final 20 minutes of regulation.

Enter the third period and the Kings scored the first two goals again. Scoring on the power play, Kopitar and Clarke set up Kevin Fiala, who returned to the lineup after being healthy in Tuesday’s game against the Sharks due to falling asleep and missing a team meeting after not ringing. an alarm. More importantly, assisting Kopitar was yet another milestone for the captain as he reached 800 career assists. Both Fiala and Clarke factored in the Kings’ sixth and final goal, as they picked up assists on Joel Edmundson’s goal, his third of the season. With Clarke’s 3-point night (0-3=3), he has now scored 11 points in the team’s first 11 games of the season. Clarke becomes the third defenseman in King history aged 21 or younger to record 11 points in the team’s first 11 games to start a season, joining Larry Murphy (2x, 4-7=11 in 1980-81 and 5-8=13 in 1981-82) and Rob Blake (2-11=13 in 1990-91). A pair of goals from Pavel Dorofeyev came late in the period, but no harm was done and the Kings took the win.

Darcy Kuemper returned to the Kings’ net and stopped 23 of 26 shots to improve his record to 3-0-2.