Red Wings 4 - 1 Kings
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Datsyuk helps Wings down Kings

Nov 20, 2011 - 12:30 AM Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Pavel Datsyuk scored a pair of goals, as the Detroit Red Wings earned a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.

Niklas Kronwall and Justin Abdelkader also scored for the Red Wings, who halted a five-game road losing streak.

Jimmy Howard made 23 saves in the win.

"This is the best game we've played in a while," said Howard. "We stuck with our game plan."

Mike Richards scored his second short-handed goal in as many games, while Jonathan Quick made 34 saves for the Kings, who had won three straight.

Richards, who also registered a short-handed tally Thursday at Anaheim, gave the Kings a 1-0 lead early in the first period, beating Howard with a backhand just eight seconds into a Justin Williams tripping call.

He is the first Kings players to score short-handed goals in consecutive games since Ziggy Palffy did so in 2001.

But Datsyuk tied the game midway through the first, chipping in a backhander off a rebound for a power play goal.

At the 7:08 mark of the second period, the Red Wings again struck on the power play, as Kronwall lifted a goal-line pass from Tomas Holstrom past Quick for a 2-1 advantage.

Abdelkader's wrister late in the second made it a 3-1 contest and Datsyuk capped the scoring with a late-game snap shot past Quick.

"By the end of the second period they had the game going the way they wanted it," said Kings coach Terry Murray. "We just weren't skating the way we had in the last three games."

Game Notes

This was the first of four meetings between the Red Wings and Kings this season...Richards has tallied six goals over his last six games.






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