The goalie has won seven in a row as the Kings continue to climb in the standings and the top team in the NHL comes to town.
In the process, they’ve gone from meandering to soaring, accumulating 50 points at the halfway mark of the season. If they can maintain their 100-point pace, it would be just the sixth campaign of 100 points or more in franchise history and the first since 2015-16. Yet the Kings aren’t looking too far down the line, with a torrid stretch of their schedule still in progress.
It would be impossible to ignore that the Kings’ coalescence has coincided with the ascent of 30-year-old Pheonix Copley, a goalie previously buried on the Washington Capitals’ organizational depth chart. He has “settled everything down” and “stabilized the group,” according to McLellan. Copley has garnered some superlatives of his own, winning seven consecutive decisions with a .919 save percentage and 2.19 goals-against average across those triumphs. Such figures have been a sight for sore eyes after the Kings had been scraping the league’s floor in terms of goaltending stats. Copley’s seven victories since Dec.
However, Fiala also leads the Kings in a less commendable category: minor penalties. Fiala has taken 16 minors this season, and they’ve often been unnecessary, costly, ill-timed or all three of those undesirable adjectives.
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