Trevor Moore scored on a redirection of another Spence shot at 15:58 for a power-play goal to make it 2-0.
"We should have been better on the races and battles; that made a difference in the game, particularly on special teams,” Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. “They kept pucks alive on their power play. They won a lot of races to keep it in our end on our power play. That was the difference in the game -- special teams’ second effort for L.A. was better than our second effort. [The] 5-on-5 game was fairly even, personally."
Talbot stopped all 19 shots he faced in the second.
“He had to clean up some messes when we made mistakes,” McLellan said. “[He was] calm. [He] understands the momentum of a game. He got us some good whistles. Just a very stabilizing factor in the goal right now.”
Pierre-Luc DuBois extended the lead to 3-0 at 2:42 of the third period on the man-advantage, beating Hill short side after Kempe’s tip attempt went wide and ricocheted off the end boards.
Karlsson cut it to 3-1 at 14:33, roofing a wrist shot from the high slot, but Kopitar scored No. 400 into an empty net with 12 seconds left for the 4-1 final.
“I didn’t think it was going to happen tonight, [but] I figured I’d give it a go (at an empty net),” Kopitar said. “Memories like this, you want to be on the winning side of this. I thought we played a solid, solid game tonight. It’s obviously a good feeling to get the two points.”
