Coyotes score twice in 13 seconds in victory against Kings

LOS ANGELES -- Nick Schmaltz and Johan Larsson scored 13 seconds apart in the second period for the Arizona Coyotes in a 3-2 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center on Wednesday.

Antti Raanta made 40 saves for his first win since Feb. 4 for the Coyotes (10-9-3), who won their fourth straight road game.
"On the road, especially when there's fans, you try to simplify it a little bit and get it in behind them a little more," Schmaltz said. "We always play hard on the road. I don't know what it is. We've got to try to bring it back home and make Arizona a tough barn to play in."
Drew Doughty and Gabriel Vilardi scored, and Jonathan Quick made 20 saves for the Kings (9-8-4), who have lost three straight following a six-game winning streak.
"Obviously our penalty kill let us down tonight," Los Angeles coach Todd McLellan said. "We made two critical mistakes, and they capitalized on the mistakes that we saw last year in our penalty kill. We think we've corrected them and they're creeping back in, so we've got work to do there. Our inability to get clears was something that I'm really disappointed in. We couldn't get fresh bodies out because we couldn't get the puck all the way down."
Arizona was 2-for-3 on the power play; Los Angeles was 1-for-4.
The Kings have been much improved on the penalty kill this season, coming in with 11 straight kills in the past four games to rank fifth in the NHL at 85.9 percent (55-for-64), but the Coyotes have been one of the few teams able to take advantage.
Arizona is 4-for-10 on the power play in three games against Los Angeles this season.

Clayton Keller scored with a wrist shot from the left circle to the near post 21 seconds into a power play to give the Coyotes a 1-0 lead at 9:26 of the second period.
Doughty tied it 1-1 off a slap shot from Adrian Kempe on the power play at 10:59.
Schmaltz put the Coyotes back in front 2-1 on the power play at 12:40 to end a run of five games without a point.
"We didn't like a lot of things about our second period," Doughty said. "I mean, the two PK goals are both preventable. The one (by Schmaltz) is my fault, I've got to block that shot, but just I thought we were sloppy in the second."
Schmaltz said, "You look at teams and their penalty kills before the game, you know what you can kind of expose them on, and that was one of the things we saw before the game: shooting off the flanks and taking those chances. I think if I shoot those and back those guys up, some of those are going to go in."

Larsson scored his second goal in as many games to make it 3-1 at 12:53, taking the puck away from Michael Amadio after the Kings got hemmed in their zone and beating Quick with a wrist shot from the right circle for his 100th NHL point.
"I thought we didn't play too bad," Vilardi said. "I mean, you look at the shots (42-23), you think, 'Wow, we were all over them.' And then, obviously, there's that 13-second span. That goal ends up killing us."
Vilardi got the Kings within 3-2 at 13:47 of the third period by redirecting Mikey Anderson's shot from the blue line with his skate, the Coyotes were able to hold on thanks to a strong performance from Raanta.
"It's nice to play, and it's obviously nicer when you win the games," Raanta said. "Today was kind of a big day for me. I wanted the success today. It was a tough start."
NOTES: Doughty leads NHL defensemen with four power-play goals. … Oliver Ekman-Larsson got his 248th assist, tying Dave Babych for eighth in Coyotes history. … Arizona forward Conor Garland had an assist after missing one game because of a lower-body injury. … Coyotes defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson played his 800th NHL game. … Arizona is 8-3-0 in its past 11 games at Staples Center.