Jonathan Quick celebrates birthday with 4-3 LA Kings win, 302nd of career

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Paul LaDue scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period, and the Los Angeles Kings rallied for a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Monday.

LaDue, who was playing in only his 15th game this season and first since Dec. 29, snapped a wrist shot from the right faceoff circle past Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington for his second goal of the season.

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Jonathan Quick stopped 33 shots to earn his 302nd NHL victory, which is fourth-best among U.S.-born goaltenders.

Anze Kopitar and Tyler Toffoli each had a goal and an assist while Brendan Leipsic had two assists. Drew Doughty also scored for Los Angeles, which has won three of its last five.

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Mackenzie MacEachern, Oskar Sundqvist and Ryan O'Reilly scored for St. Louis, and Binnington made 25 saves.

MacEachern scored his first NHL goal when he knocked in a rebound of a Vince Dunn slap shot while falling to the ice at 10:31 of the first period.

Sundqvist put the Blues up 2-0 when he took a pass from Barbashev and lofted it past Quick's stick with 1:11 left in the period. Los Angeles got a goal 15 seconds later when Leipsic picked off an errant pass from Barbashev in the Blues zone and then passed between two St. Louis skaters to an open Toffoli.

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Doughty tied it at 2 at 7:15 of the second on a 5-on-3 power play when he directed a slap shot from just outside the faceoff circle past Binnington. Kopitar gave the Kings a 3-2 advantage late in the period with his team-leading 14th goal of the season off a pass from Dustin Brown on a 2-on-1 rush.

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O'Reilly — who leads the Blues with 18 goals — tied it six minutes into the third on the power play when his shot from the right faceoff circle went over Quick's glove and just under the crossbar.

NOTES: It was the second straight game that the LA Kings have scored on a two-man advantage. Ilya Kovalchuk scored Los Angeles' lone goal on Saturday at Colorado on a 5-on-3 power play. ... The Kings sent forward Matt Luff down to Ontario of the AHL before the game.

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Blues: Travel to Anaheim on Wednesday for their final game before the All-Star break.

Kings: Won't play again until Feb. 2, when they face the New York Islanders to begin a six-game trip.