LOS ANGELES — The Kings were in the mood to buck trends on Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena, where they scalped the Chicago Blackhawks, 6-0.

They prevailed at home, where they’d won only three of a dozen previous games this season. They scored six goals for just the second time in 2025-26, during their most convincing victory of the campaign. They tallied on the power play for the first time in five games and the sixth time in their past 65 attempts, thanks to Andrei Kuzmenko’s first goal and first point since Nov. 1. They won decisively, after their prior 10 games had all been decided by a goal and all but two of their dozen wins before Saturday came by one goal or a goal plus an empty-netter.

Brandt Clarke scored two goals and was joined in the multipoint club by Mikey Anderson (goal

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