By BRIAN HALL The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Trevor Lewis scored twice, Kevin Fiala added another on the power play and the Kings beat the Minnesota Wild, 5-1, on Tuesday night.
Warren Foegele and Quinton Byfield also scored for the Kings, who were playing the second night of a back-to-back after a 3-0 win in Nashville a night earlier. David Rittich made 23 saves for the Kings.
Fiala, who was traded to the Kings from Minnesota in 2022 in exchange for a first-round draft pick and defenseman Brock Faber, scored his seventh goal of the season. He now has three goals and six assists in his last seven games against the Wild.
Fiala’s go-ahead goal was the second goal in a span of 4:25 in the second period. Alex Laferriere centered to a wide-open Fiala in the slot, where the veteran winger one-timed a shot past Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson.
A back-to-back ending in four points has the Kings returning home with wins in five of their past seven games. The Kings’ 19 points has them alone atop the Pacific Division and they are 7-2-1 since opening the season 1-1-2.
Minnesota, which had won three in a row, opened the scoring in the second period on Zach Bogosian’s first goal of the season. Gustavsson stopped 22 shots for the Wild.
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For the first time this season, a game got away from Minnesota. The Wild scored first for the ninth time in 11 games, but they fell to 6-0-3 in such contests.
Minnesota’s power play, which entered the game with the 11th-best conversation rate at 22.2%, has started to short-circuit. The Wild were scoreless on four attempts with the man advantage on Tuesday and are now 0 for 14 on the power play their past four games.
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The Kings host Vancouver on Thursday, while the Wild visit San Jose on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.