What we learned from the Kings’ 6-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday: All dynasties (except maybe the New England Patriots) must come to an end. It’s not so long ago in human years that the Kings and the Chicago Blackhawks dominated the NHL. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015, and the Kings prevailed in 2012 and 2014. The Blackhawks beat the then-defending-champion Kings to win the West in 2013, and the Kings returned the favor in 2014 on the way to winning the Cup. But in hockey years, with the NHL having veered so strongly toward youth and speed and neither team able to keep up, those triumphs might as well have happened a century ago. Both will miss the playoffs this season and deservedly so. But in some one-on-one matchups on Saturday, such as Jonathan Quick’s three dialed-in saves on Patrick Kane during a first-period Chicago power play, it was like the olden days. “Any time you match up against these guys, they’ve got some real high-end talent,” winger Kyle Clifford said. “Get those teams together and it just makes for an exciting game.” Advertisement The Kings’ power play has awakened. Dustin Brown and Sean Walker scored with a man advantage in the first period, which turned out to be the Kings’ only power plays in the game. Combined with a one-for-three performance against Dallas on Thursday, that left the Kings with three goals in their last five advantages. That’s not enough to move the needle much — they ranked 26th in the NHL through Saturday’s games with a 15.7% success rate — but it’s better than their recent performances. Before the last two games, they were 0 for 12 over five games and 1 for 120 over seven games. “I think Marco Sturm has done a great job on it,” interim coach Willie Desjardins said of the assistant coach who was put in charge of the power play. “I think they spent time on it. They’ve worked at it. We made a few changes, a few adjustments. I think other games we had a few chances, but they just didn’t go.” On Saturday, they converted when Dustin Brown lifted a second-effort shot over the pad of goalie Corey Crawford and again on a long shot by defenseman Sean Walker, set up nicely by Adrian Kempe. More is merrier. The Kings’ six-goal production was a high mark for the season. “That’s good. It’s a good confidence boost for everybody,” Kings forward Adrian Kempe said. Even Quick chipped in as 10 players contributed at least one point. Quick’s stretch pass led to Brown’s first goal, and Crawford made a similar play to earn an assist on the goal by Brendan Perlini that cut the Kings’ 3-0 lead to 3-2 at 2:06 of the second period. It was the sixth time since the 1993-94 season and the first in nearly seven years that both goalies had an assist in the same game. It was last done by Vancouver’s Cory Schneider and Columbus’ Steve Mason on March 17, 2012. “Confidence is a big thing,” Kempe said. “When you get good confidence, you play a lot better. I think that’s kind of what we needed ... and I think this was a perfect game to get everybody going. Now we just have got to keep going here.”<doc-sep>The Blackhawks look for their second straight win on their California trip when they visit the sliding Kings on Saturday afternoon at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Chicago is coming off a 4-3 win over the Ducks in Anaheim, with Patrick Kane scoring the game-winner with just 16 seconds left in the game. Kane leads the team in scoring with 94 points (40 goals, 54 points). Corey Crawford stopped 29 shots in his first start since Dec. 16 when he was sidelined with a concussion. It was a positive sign for the Blackhawks to get their No. 1 goaltender as they look to stay in the playoff hunt. Chicago is five points out of a wild-card spot in the Western Conference. The Blackhawks did see their fifth player this season suffer a concussion when forward Drake Caggiula was crushed against the boards in the second period against the Ducks. He hasn’t been placed on injured reserve, yet, and will not play against the Kings. Los Angeles is the second worst team in the league at 54 points and have lost 10 straight games. The franchise record is 11 consecutive losses, which was et in 2004. Anze Kopitar leads the Kings in scoring with 47 points (19 goals, 28 assists). Dustin Brown is second with 35 points (14 goals, 21 assists) in 54 games. Jonathan Quick, who has missed time this season with injuries, is expected to start in net. He’s 11-17-6 with a 3.31 goals-against average and .891 save percentage. This is the second of three games between the teams this season. Los Angeles won 2-1 in a shootout Nov. 16 in Chicago. Lineups Blackhawks Saad — Toews — Kane DeBrincat — Strome — Kahun Perlini — Anisimov — Sikura Kunitz — Kruger — Hayden Keith — Seabrook Koekkoek — Gustafsson Murphy — Dahlstrom Crawford Ward Kings Iafallo — Kopitar — Brown Kovalchuk — Carter — Toffoli Leipsic — Kempe — Brodzinski Clifford — Lewis — Wagner Forbort — Doughty Phaneuf — Roy Walker — Ladue Quick Campbell How to watch When: 3 p.m., Central Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles TV: NBC Sports Chicago, NHL Network<doc-sep>For a few moments on Saturday it was easy to imagine the calendar had spun backward five years to the time the Kings and the Chicago Blackhawks dominated the NHL. The Blackhawks, on a power play in the first period, repeatedly tried to set up Patrick Kane and were successful because the puck always seems to find elite players. Kane, still as feared a scorer as when the teams alternated as Stanley Cup champions in 2012-13-14-15, unleashed a shot from the right circle. Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick stopped it with his arm and shoulder. Kane got the puck again. Quick, tracking the puck well through traffic, again stopped it with the left side of his body, but the Blackhawks maintained possession. That created another one-on-one between Quick and Kane. Quick prevailed again, going to his knees to keep the puck in front of him before he froze it and got a stoppage. It was 30 seconds of a rivalry reborn, a re-creation of the time these teams battled for supremacy instead of for position in the draft lottery. “Bringing back memories,” Kyle Clifford said with a smile. The rest of the game — a 6-3 victory by the Kings at Staples Center that ended their 10-game losing streak — didn’t come close to matching that brilliant sequence. Neither team was capable of sustaining a high level because both have aged badly and have lost the defensive steadiness that became their trademark. The Kings have fired two coaches since they beat Chicago in the 2014 Western Conference final and won the second of their two Cup titles in three seasons; the Blackhawks dismissed three-time Cup winner Joel Quenneville four months ago and are enduring their own painful rebuilding process. Advertisement The glory days were fun, but that was then and this is now. And now is a low point, with neither the Kings nor the Blackhawks headed to the playoffs. “It’s two different teams out there. Not the same teams,” said defenseman Drew Doughty, who played a game-high 29 minutes and 29 seconds and was among the 10 Kings who earned at least one point. “We’ve got some of the same stars and stuff like that but a lot different circumstances with us both being at the bottom of the pack.” Ah, that. After scoring a season-high six goals the Kings (24-33-8) sat 15th in the West and 29th in the NHL. The Blackhawks (27-29-9), fading after a surge had carried them within dreaming distance of a postseason berth, ranked 11th in the West and 24th in the league. Nostalgia has little significance to players in a season defined by frustration and struggle. “To win against anybody is satisfying,” Quick said in his typical unsentimental fashion. “It doesn’t matter who we’re playing. Just to get a win is big.” The victory was their first since a 3-2 overtime decision at Philadelphia on Feb. 7 and their first at Staples Center since a 4-3 triumph over St. Louis on Jan. 21. The All-Star break, bye week, and a road-heavy schedule made Saturday’s game only their fourth on home ice since then, but it seemed like forever ago. “It’s just a way better feeling when you win,” interim coach Willie Desjardins said. The Kings built a 3-0 lead in the first period on power-play goals by Dustin Brown and Sean Walker and an even-strength goal that Ilya Kovalchuk snapped past an often-shaky Corey Crawford. They gave it back on two goals by Brandon Perlini — the second set up on a stretch pass by Crawford during a bad line change by the Kings — and a shot by defenseman Connor Murphy that grazed the leg of Kings defenseman Kurtis MacDermid on the way to the net and rose past Quick’s reach at 6:57 of the second period. Kings forward Adrian Kempe broke the tie at 8:08 of the second period. Linemate Jonny Brodzinski intercepted a pass by Kane — who was held scoreless — and passed to Kempe, who lifted a shot into the upper-left corner of the net for his 10th goal this season. It held up as his second winner after Brendan Leipsic padded the Kings’ lead to 5-3 when his shot from between the circles knuckled past Crawford at 4:54 of the third period and Brown added an insurance goal at 18:07 after Anze Kopitar forced a turnover. “It’s kind of relief,” Kempe said of his emotions after his one-goal, one-assist performance. “It was a big win but I think everybody’s been in a good mood. Obviously there’s been frustration out there, but we stuck with it. We kept battling through it.” Forward Austin Wagner, a rare bright spot in the Kings’ dismal season, left in the second period with a lower-body injury after absorbing a hit from Chicago defenseman Gustav Forsling. Desjardins said he expected Wagner to be examined on Sunday, a day off for the team. At least the Kings had the consolation of a slump-busting win to enjoy until they reconvene for practice on Monday. “Just awesome,” Doughty described it, before pausing. “It feels really good,” he said, “but it’s hard to look past all those losses we had.” Advertisement helene.elliott@latimes.com Follow Helene Elliott on Twitter @helenenothelen<doc-sep>
The Blackhawks rallied from a three-goal deficit, but the Kings responded with three more goals to hand Chicago a 6-3 loss Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Dustin Brown scored twice in his 1,100th career game. Adrian Kempe, Ilya Kovalchuk and Brendan Leipsic each had a goal and an assist, and Adrian Kempe had two helpers. Jonathan Quick stopped 29 shots and had an assist as Los Angeles snapped its 10-game losing streak. Brendan Perlini, who was a healthy scratch the past four games, tallied two goals for his fifth career multi-point game. Connor Murphy also scored and Corey Crawford made 19 saves and had an assist for the Blackhawks, who have lost three of their past four games. The Kings scored power-play goals 2:19 apart in the first period to take a 2-0 lead just 4:42 into the game. Brown followed up his initial shot on a breakaway as he got behind Slater Koekkoek and put in the rebound at 2:23. Sean Walker received a pass from Kempe and snapped a wrister from the high slot that went by Crawford — who had more traffic in front of him than a LA highway — and in off the post for a 2-0 lead. The Blackhawks then received their first power play, but couldn’t capitalize despite Patrick Kane having three prime opportunities from the right faceoff circle. Jeff Carter backhanded a pass to Kovalchuk, who buried a one-timer from the high slot to make it 3-0 at 15:13. Perlini ripped a one-timer from Koekkoek past Quick to get the Blackhawks on the scoreboard with 1:14 left in the first period to give the team some life before the intermission. Perlini tallied his second goal when the Kings were caught on a line change and Crawford flipped him a perfect pass to set up a breakaway just 2:06 into the second to make it 3-2. Murphy tied it 3-3 when his wrister deflected off Kurtis MacDermid’s right knee past Quick and into the net at 6:57 of the second. Kempe scored the eventual game-winner on a pin-point pass from Jonny Brodzinski — who intercepted a pass from Kane — on an odd-man rush before making a move to beat Crawford at 8:08. Tyler Toffoli looked poised to make it a two-goal game on a breakaway after serving a penalty, but his stick broke on the shot attempt. Tyler Toffoli was pissed about a penalty called on him and slammed his stick into the glass when he was in the box. Came out of the box on a breakaway and... the stick snapped pic.twitter.com/Gj1iSm9iCs — CJ Fogler (@cjzero) March 2, 2019 Anze Kopitar drove past Gustav Forsling and Connor Murphy below the goal line then Kovalchuk found Leipsic in the slot for a bouncing one-timer at 4:54 of the third. Brown tallied his second of the night at 18:07. Season series Los Angeles is 2-0 in the season series. The Kings won 2-1 in a shootout Nov. 16 in Chicago. The third and final meeting between the two teams is March 30 in Los Angeles. Injury report The Blackhawks were without forward Drake Caggiula after he suffered a concussion Wednesday in Anaheim. Caggiula, who is the fifth Blackhawks player to have a documented concussion this season, hasn’t been placed on injured reserve. Up next The Blackhawks play the second half of a back-to-back Sunday night against the Sharks at SAP Center in San Jose. 3 stars