Anze Kopitar has 3 points, picks up 800th career assist in Kings' 6-3 victory over Golden Knights

Anze Kopitar had a extremity and 2 assists, including nan his 800th profession assist

LOS ANGELES -- Anze Kopitar had a extremity and 2 assists, including nan his 800th profession assist. arsenic nan Los Angeles Kings hit nan Vegas Golden Knights 6-3 connected Wednesday night.

Adrian Kempe and Kevin Fiala each had a extremity and an assist, and Warren Foegele, Alex Laferriere and Joel Edmundson besides scored for Los Angeles, which has won 3 of its past four. Brandt Clarke added 3 assists and Mikey Anderson had 2 assists, and Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves.

Kopitar's assistance connected Fiala's power-play extremity astatine 6:23 of nan 3rd play made him nan 5th subordinate calved extracurricular of North America to scope 800 assists, joining Jaromir Jagr (1,155), Evgeni Malkin (809), Nicklas Lidstrom (878) and Henrik Sedin (830). Kopitar besides joins Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby (1,013) and Malkin on pinch Detroit's Patrick Kane (818) arsenic progressive skaters to scope nan milestone.

Pavel Dorofeyev had 2 goals and Tanner Pearson besides scored for Vegas. Ilya Samsonov stopped 20 shots.

Golden Knights: Vegas is 7-0 astatine home, but 0-3-1 connected nan road.

Kings: Fiala saw 15 minutes of crystal clip and was motivated aft being a patient scratch Tuesday nighttime owed to missing a squad meeting.

The Kings' goals came successful spurts. Foegele and Kempe scored 42 seconds isolated successful nan first period, Laferriere and Kopitar made it 4-0 successful a 44-second span midway done nan 2nd period, while Fiala's and Edmundson's third-period goals came wrong 100 seconds successful nan third.

Kopitar has 15 goals and 39 points successful 34 games against nan Golden Knights, nan astir points by immoderate subordinate against Vegas.

The Golden Knights big Utah connected Saturday, while nan Kings big Chicago.

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