Stars at Kings
Second place in the Pacific Division and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs still are within reach for the Los Angeles Kings as they conclude the regular season Saturday against the visiting Dallas Stars. The Kings will need help to achieve their goal, however, as they look to complete a perfect three-game homestand.
Los Angeles trails Anaheim by one point for third in the division and is two behind second-place San Jose but owns the tiebreaker against both clubs. The Kings, who have won four straight at home, are coming off a 5-4 overtime win over Minnesota on Thursday that extended their point streak to five games (4-0-1). Dustin Brown was the hero as he scored his fourth goal of the contest 23 seconds into the extra session to set a new career high of 61 points. Dallas, which will miss the playoffs for the eighth time in 10 seasons, is coming off a 5-3 setback at Anaheim on Friday that dropped it to 1-1-0 on its season-ending three-game California trip.
TV: 10:30 p.m. ET, NHL Network, FS Southwest Plus (Dallas), FS West (Los Angeles)
ABOUT THE STARS (41-32-8): Jamie Benn registered a goal and an assist against the Ducks to pull within one point of Tyler Seguin (77) for the team lead. The 28-year-old captain has collected five goals and two assists during his four-game point streak and has landed on the scoresheet in 10 of his last 12 contests. Seguin had recorded a tally and five assists on a four-game point streak before being blanked on Friday.
ABOUT THE KINGS (45-28-8): Brown's career-best four-goal performance on Thursday was the 19th in franchise history and second this season, as captain Anze Kopitar accomplished the feat on March 22 at Colorado. Brown and Kopitar are the fifth set of Kings teammates to record four-goal efforts in the same season and first since 1983-84, when Brian MacLellan and Bernie Nicholls did it. Drew Doughty became the fourth defenseman in club history to hit the 50-assist mark and first since Lubomir Visnovsky in 2005-06.
OVERTIME
1. Kopitar is riding a five-game point streak during which he has collected two goals and four assists.
2. Dallas D Marc Methot scored on Friday for the first time since March 19, 2016 - ending his 107-game drought.
3. Los Angeles assigned C Jonny Brodzinski to Ontario of the American Hockey League on Friday.