Kopitar scores in OT to lift Kings over Coyotes 4-3

The win was Los Angeles’ first against the Coyotes (16-15-3) in three meetings this season and handed Arizona its first loss in six games against southern California teams Anaheim and Los Angeles.

Coyotes coach Dave Tippett was anxious about his team’s focus coming off a three-day holiday break, but for two periods against the Los Angeles Kings, the Coyotes followed their basic blue print for success.

Jonathan Quick made 23 saves for the Kings. It wasn’t certain whether he would join the team for their game Sunday in Colorado….

“Muzz’s (rear) on Boyd’s face”. “But they had their arms up all night”, Sutter said of the referees.

Calling Domingue’s performance a setback may be too unforgiving considering the copious amount of penalties the Coyotes took against a team leading the Pacific Division.

NOTES: Gordon left the ice under his own power. The first came when Milan Lucic cross-checked Connor Murphy behind the Coyotes net shortly after being checked off his feet by Murphy and led to Arizona’s first goal.

Ekman-Larsson tied the game 30 seconds later when his shot from the high slot trickled between Quick’s pads for Arizona’s second goal on eight shots during the extended power play.

“We just tried to play them hard and we did a really good job of that in the first and second periods”, Ekman-Larsson said. “But we found away to bounce back late in the third and get some big goals, so that was a huge point”.

“We took too many penalties in the third”, Domingue said.

Los Angeles wasn’t able to muster many quality chances through two periods, but the Kings evened the score early in the third period on their fourth power play of the game.

ABOUT THE KINGS (20-11-2): Los Angeles assigned Michael Mersch to Ontario of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.

Brown added the Kings’ second power-play goal of the night on a one-timer from the left circle for a 3-1 lead at 6:23.

“I saw it was a forward on the back end, and then I saw he stumbled just a little bit”, Kopitar said on Fox Sports West. “I wanted to make sure I got around him”. “If we take that out of our game, I think we’re going to get a better chance to win”. The Coyotes needed his help with Mike Smith out until February because of a lower-body injury.

Martin Hanzal has three goals and two assists in his last three matchups with Los Angeles, but missed Tuesday’s game because of a lower-body injury.