The Pittsburgh Penguins couldn't bring the same fire power in back-to-back nights.
It was another ultra-late start for those Pittsburgh Penguins fans on the east coast as their California trip rolls on.
For the second time in as many days, the Penguins were rolling with Casey DeSmith as their starting goalie and were hoping for the best.
The Los Angeles Kings are the hardest contest of the three teams in California, and they showed it through the first period.
Despite a good push from the Penguins, the frame ended with the Kings up 2-0.
The first goal came within the first three minutes and flew past DeSmith after a stellar deflection from Jaret Anderson-Dolan.
Alex Iafallo just barely squeaked one through DeSmith in the closing three minutes of the period.
The Penguins had plenty of bright spots in the first 20 minutes, but couldn’t capitalize on the scoreboard.
The Kings extended their lead to three early in the second, forcing the Penguins to pull DeSmith in favor of third stringer Dustin Tokarski.
It wasn’t long before the Kings extended their lead with just their second shot on Tokarski finding twine.
Adrian Kempe capped off the natural hat trick on the Kings’ first power play of the contest, and there was still an entire period to be played.
Nothing much of note happened for the Penguins through the third period; they remained held off the score sheet and Sidney Crosby was handed a game-misconduct penalty about half way through the period.
Crosby took a cross check that forced a second King to fall over the Penguins captain.
Unhappy about some of the officiating decisions, Crosby began following an official around the ice attempting to have a conversation, before that ref sent Crosby packing.
On a later, unrelated, 5-on-3 situation for the Kings, Kempe added to his scoring tough with his fourth of the night.
With the Kings up 6-0, Mike Sullivan was visibly unhappy behind the Penguins bench, but not with his players.
Sullivan was directing his anger towards the men behind the Kings bench and some of the coaching decisions being made by them.
A feisty third period finally came to an end just after 1:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time with the Kings closing out a 6-0 victory.
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