TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Trevor Moore scored two goals and the Los Angeles Kings extended their season-opening road winning streak to eight games with a 4-1 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Monday.

Anze Kopitar and Phillip Danault also scored and Pheonix Copley made 30 saves for the Kings, who are tied for the third-longest such streak in NHL history. Buffalo holds the record by winning its first 10 road games in 2006-07.

ā€œWe are a veteran team,ā€ Kings coach Todd McLellan said. ā€œWe have been together as a group for a long time. We understand what our structure is. Our game management skills have gotten better from the start of the year until now.

ā€œAll of those things are really important when you play on the road. We seem to play a simpler game. Everybody pulls on the rope the right way. We donā€™t need outstanding games from everybody every night. We just need good games, and weā€™ve been getting them.ā€

Lawson Crouse scored and Connor Ingram made 21 saves for the Coyotes, who played their seventh home game of the season. Ingram is 6-2 in his eight starts this season, and Crouse has scored in three of the last four games and eight of the last 10.

Los Angeles killed all six penalties, including a double minor on Adrian Kempe when the score was 3-1 midway through the third period. The Kings have not given up a power play goal in the last seven games and 26 penalty-kill situations.

ā€œFirst, we are blocking a lot of shots,ā€ Copley said. ā€œWe're taking away lanes. I thought we did a really good job keeping them to the outside. We've been sticking to keeping it simple, and that was has been leading to the success.ā€

Copley gave up three goals in the first 8:31 before being pulled in the Kingsā€™ 5-4 victory here Oct. 27, and McLellan said the Kings targeted this game for his return. Cam Talbot had started the last three and eight of the last 10.

ā€œIn the back of our minds we were always thinking about playing him here again,ā€ McLellan said. ā€œBack to the scene of the crime. But not his crime. Our crime. Try to get the players to respond to him and he to them.ā€

Moore scored a short-handed goal at 3:36 of the first period. Danault picked up a pass that ricocheted off a Mooreā€™s skate and returned it to Moore, who picked it up along the center side boards and beat Ingram with a wrist shot high to the glove side.

ā€œTodd put a pretty big emphasis on our start and we wanted to be better,ā€ Moore said.

Copley saved breakaways by Jason Zucker and Nick Schmaltz in the final nine minutes of the first period, and Crouse missed the net on a breakaway in the last minute.

ā€œWe played solid defensively,ā€ Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. ā€œEven offensively, we created a lot of chances but did not bury them. We did a lot of good things. It was just a matter of execution."

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Kings: At Anaheim on Friday.

Coyotes: Host St. Louis on Wednesday.

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