LOS ANGELES (AP) Trevor Lewis is not the glamor player on the Los Angeles Kings. Not a star like teammates Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown.He is highly valued www.flyersshoponline.com , though, and his worth was clear Thursday night when he returned to lead the Kings to a 3-1 victory over the Washington Capitals.In his first game in two months, Lewis came down the far wall, took a shot, got the rebound and took another, and finally as the puck popped up as he skated by, he batted it into the net.It was the go-ahead goal and enough to hold off the Capitals.”Lewie is one of those glue guys,” said Kings coach John Stevens. ”He’s the conscious of the coach. It just seems like he understands and reads everything going on out there. He’s always on top of pucks and does the little things well.”Lewis had missed 12 games with an upper-body injury. Jeff Carter, also recently back from injury, opened the scoring Philadelphia Flyers T-Shirts Womens , and Kyle Clifford scored into an empty net. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves as the Kings moved one point ahead of Colorado for the second wild card in the Western Conference.”A very desperate team with where they are in the standings,” Capitals coach Barry Trotz said. ”We have to match that desperation.”It was a pretty even game. We just needed a little more finish, get a dirty goal, get something on the power play. It’s not coming easy for us. We just have to battle through it.”The Kings fought off two Washington power plays in the third period.Rookie Jakub Vrana scored for the Capitals, his 12th on the season. Braden Holtby stopped 24 shots.The Kings were smarting after blowing a three-goal lead at home to struggling Chicago on Saturday and then had four days off before playing the Capitals.The time off, though, may have proved beneficial to Lewis’ return.”I think the last four days with getting some practice time in there really helped,” Lewis said. ”And obviously I was able to skate most of the time, too, so I was able to keep my legs as best I could.”His return gave the Kings their full roster healthy for the first time this season.”It’s been a long time coming Philadelphia Flyers Hoodies Womens ,” Stevens said. ”We’re going to need depth coming down the stretch.”Washington was first in its division when it started its three-game California trip but has lost consecutive games to Anaheim and Los Angeles.”We’re just in a rut,” Washington’s Brett Connolly said. ”It’s not coming easy for us right now and we all know that. We just have to find a way to push through and get our mojo back. We know we can put it together.”NOTES: Caps forward Tom Wilson had a puck deflected off a teammate’s stick strike him between his visor and helmet in the second period. He fell to the ice, but quickly skated off with a cut on his forehead. He returned in the third period. Said Trotz: ”He’s as tough as they come. He just bounced back. You wouldn’t even know he was injured. I thought he was outstanding.” … The Kings have defeated the Capitals eight consecutive times at home. … Washington’s Alex Ovechkin remains two shy of 600 career goals. He has only one goal in nine career games at Staples Center.UP NEXTCapitals: Finish their three-game California swing Saturday in San Jose.Kings: Complete a five-game homestand with a Saturday game against St. Louis.— ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Vegas defenseman Nate Schmidt is familiar with the ebbs and flows of the NHL.Schmidt and the Golden Knights continued their surge on Friday night while keeping the Anaheim Ducks in a funk.Max Pacioretty scored in his return to the Vegas lineup and the Golden Knights extended their winning streak to five games, beating the Ducks 3-2 Friday night.The Golden Knights fell behind in the second period when the Ducks scored two goals 18 seconds apart. But Vegas retook the lead with two goals in a 31-second span to improve to 6-0-2 in their last eight games.“We sure tested ourselves a few times early in the second period. But, again, we found a way to win and we’re never going to apologize for that,” said Schmidt, who scored for Vegas. “As the year goes on, you are going to have your surges and a couple times when you’re not playing that well Philadelphia Flyers Hats Womens , but I thought our guys, even when we’re down in the game or we’re not playing that well, we find ways to get ourselves back in.”Tomas Nosek had a goal and an assist, Marc Andre-Fleury made 25 saves, and Vegas secured the first three games of the teams’ four-game season series.Nosek tied it at 2-all at 10:15 of the second period. He reached around John Gibson and backhanded in a rebound of a shot by Brayden McNabb. Pacioretty put Vegas back in front 3-2 at 10:46.Playing for the first time since Dec. 17 and missing seven games because of an undisclosed injury, Pacioretty got behind two Ducks in transition and scored off a pass from Paul Stastny.It was the seventh time Pacioretty and Stastny have played together this season, as both have dealt with injuries. But chemistry displayed on Pacioretty’s 11th goal showed why Vegas signed Stastny as a free agent in July, traded for Pacioretty in September and signed him to a contract extension.“It’s been a start to the season that no one drew up with injuries and playing through them and sitting out for both of us,” Pacioretty said. “To be able to come in now and feel pretty good and kind of start from scratch and put together a good win as a line is a good step.”Daniel Sprong and Carter Rowney scored for the Ducks, who dropped to 0-5-2 in their last seven games. Gibson made 39 saves.Sprong scored on the power play at 1:57 to tie the game at 1. Rowney then put the Ducks ahead 2-1 at 2:15 by catching the Golden Knights on an odd-man rush.“If we can put the good minutes we had this night Custom Philadelphia Flyers Jerseys , if we can put them over like more of 50, 60 minutes, we’re going to be successful,” Ducks defenseman Hampus Lindholm said.The Golden Knights took a 1-0 lead at 6:52 on the first period when Schmidt scored on a slap shot from the blue line through traffic during a delayed penalty. Gibson made a save and paddled the puck away during the buildup to Schmidt’s fourth goal, but the officials did not stop play.Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said he never receiver an explanation why there was not a whistle, and refused to elaborate on the sequence.“I’ve been fined once before, so my wife doesn’t like me writing big checks to the league,” Carlyle said.NOTES: The Golden Knights improved to 16-0-2 when leading after two periods. . Vegas F Alex Tuch had an assist to extend his point streak to five games, with two goals and four assists in that span. . Vegas D Shea Theodore did not play because of illness.UP NEXTGolden Knights: Host New Jersey on Sunday.Ducks: Host Edmonton on Sunday.