Alec Martinez jumped off the floor as he joked with Anze Kopitar, and the overall feeling was like pressure alleviated when the lid is taken off a Crock Pot.
The Kings will take any semblance of momentum or energy, however modest, as they attempt to crawl back to relevance. They took one small step toward that when their top line and goaltending delivered again in a 2-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena.
It’s that old top line magic. The numbers are skewed by Dustin Brown’s hat trick on Sunday but Brown, Kopitar and Alex Iafallo have combined for six goals and five assists in the past two games.