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LOS ANGELES – Jonathan Toews scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, Andrew Brunette also found the net and Duncan Keith had two assists, leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.

Corey Crawford, 4-0 with a 1.75 goals-against average in four career starts against the Kings, made 25 saves after posting a 6-5 victory down the freeway at Anaheim on Friday. It was the first time he started on consecutive days since splitting a home-and-home set against the Dallas Stars to open the season.

The Kings lost to the Blackhawks for the seventh straight time and fourth in a row at home. Jarret Stoll ended a 17-game goal drought and Jonathan Quick stopped 25 shots. Mike Richards' goal-scoring streak ended at five games.

Toews, who came in leading the NHL with a 61.8 winning percentage on faceoffs, put Chicago ahead 2-1 with 3:22 left in the second on his 13th goal after winning a clean faceoff against Richards deep in the Los Angeles end.

The puck went back to Keith, whose long screened wrist shot went wide of the left post on a deflection off teammate Viktor Stalberg. But Toews was right there to get the hard carom off the end boards and slam it home behind Quick, who stuck out his right leg too late. It was the second straight game-winner and fourth this season for the Blackhawks' captain, who had two goals and three assists in the win over the Ducks.

Chicago, 9-0-1 when scoring first, got the jump on the Kings at 3:08 of the opening period. Brunette scored on a wraparound, as Quick tried to scramble around teammate Anze Kopitar and Blackhawks forward Dave Bolland in the crease to cover the right post. Chicago is 5-0 when Brunette scores a goal, and in four of those games he got their first one.

The Blackhawks had a golden opportunity to make it 2-0 about 8 minutes into the second period, as Stalberg and Patrick Kane flashed down the ice on a 2-on-none break. But Stalberg shot wide of the right post after getting Kane's cross-ice feed, and the opportunistic Kings tied it with 7:58 to go in the period.

Matt Greene's shot from the right point was blocked by Keith, but the puck caromed to Stoll, and he beat Crawford high to the glove side with a 25-foot wrist shot for his first goal since Oct. 18.

The Blackhawks were 3-3-0 on their annual circus road trip, which included a two-day stopover in Las Vegas. They won't play consecutive games on the road again until they go on a franchise record-tying nine-game trip that runs from Jan. 31 through Feb. 18 and spans four time zones. The only other nine-game trip in the franchise's 85-year history was in 1955-56, when the NHL was comprised of just six teams — all within a 987-mile radius.

Notes: Chicago coach Joel Quenneville played his final nine NHL games for current Kings coach Terry Murray during the 1990-91 season, when Murray was coaching the Washington Capitals. ... Kings C Colin Fraser helped the Blackhawks win a Stanley Cup in 2010 before he was traded to Edmonton for a draft pick just 15 days after the Cup clincher. ... This was the 27th time Chicago has played back-to-back road games against Kings and Ducks, and only the fourth time the Blackhawks have won both. It also happened in March 1994, February 1996, and last November. ... The Kings lost all four meetings with the Blackhawks last season. Their next rendezvous will be Dec. 28 at Chicago, where the Kings haven't won in six tries since Dec. 30, 2007. ... The Kings have not allowed a goal in 11 short-handed situations over their last three games, after giving up at least one in eight straight contests.