Talbot, Wild defeat Kings for second straight win to start season

LOS ANGELES -- The Minnesota Wild held off the Los Angeles Kings in a 3-2 win at Staples Center on Saturday.

Frederick Gaudreau, Victor Rask and Ryan Hartman scored, and Cam Talbot made 29 saves for the Wild (2-0-0), who were coming off a season-opening 2-1 victory at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.
"Starting on the road helps," Hartman said. "Traveling on the plane or going to dinner, you're around each other every day as opposed to going to the rink and going home to your family. Definitely excited to get back home though, but we got four points, and that was our goal."
Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist for his second straight multipoint game, Viktor Arvidsson scored his first goal for the Kings (1-1-0) on the power play, and Jonathan Quick allowed three goals on 30 shots.
"This was a grinding game," Kings coach Todd McLellan said. "It was in the trenches, it was heavy, it was in the paint, along the board, face-off circle. I thought there were moments or fractions of the game where we had some momentum, and there were other times when they did."
The Wild scored three goals in the second period after falling behind 1-0 on Arvidsson's goal at 5:23.
Gaudreau tied it up 1-1 at 6:17 on a one-timer from the near hashmarks of the right circle from Kevin Fiala.

McLellan said allowing the Wild to respond so quickly was the biggest mistake the Kings made.
"If we could go back and take a goal out of the game, that's the one that I would pick," McLellan said. "The others, we made some mistakes, yes. Coverage mistakes, but those are gonna happen. To me, that was a little bit of game management [breakdown] in that situation, and we've been stressing that for a month and a bit already."
Rask put the Wild ahead 2-1 at 11:55 when Kirill Kaprizov found him in the slot for a wrist shot into the side netting.
Hartman made it 3-1 at 16:52, shooting over Quick off a backhand pass from Marcus Foligno.
The Wild had a goal overturned at 16:29 of the second period for goaltender interference following a challenge by McLellan. Video review determined that Brandon Duhaime pushed Quick's pad to send the puck into net.
Minnesota coach Dean Evason said Foligno helped keep the team upbeat when Duhaime's goal was disallowed, and it carried over from the bench to the ice with an immediate response.
"I think 'Moose' said something like, 'Well, no matter what, we're playing good right now so let's just keep going,'" Evason said. "It's sure nice when the players talk like that and the coaches don't have to."

Kopitar cut it to 3-2 at 7:28 of the third period. He has seven points (four goals, three assists) through two games, trailing only Wayne Gretzky's eight points (three goals, five assists) in 1988-89 for most in Kings history through two games.
Arvidsson collected Kopitar's rebound and got Talbot to commit before shooting into an open net at 5:23. It was Arvidsson's first goal and second point in two games after being acquired from the Nashville Predators in a trade on July 1.
"I think today was kind of a streaky game," Kings defenseman Matt Roy said. "I think, moving forward, we've just got to keep getting pucks to the net and keep getting bodies to the net and I think good things will happen just like the other night."
NOTES: Fiala got his 200th NHL point, becoming the fifth player from Switzerland to reach that mark. He has 92 goals and 108 assists in 339 games. … Kings defenseman Drew Doughty had two assists, giving him six points (one goal, five assists) through two games. … Talbot saved 57 of 60 shots in the back-to-back games against the Ducks and Kings. … Quick had the secondary assist on Kopitar's goal. It is the first point by a goalie in the NHL this season and the 20th of Quick's career.