LOS ANGELES — Coming off a letdown, the Kings produced a beatdown on Thursday night, trampling the Ducks 6-1 at Crypto.com Arena to take three of four Freeway Faceoffs this season.

The Kings bounced back from a low-wattage loss to lowly Seattle thanks in part to double-digit power plays in the game. That meant that nearly a period was chewed up without even-strength hockey, and the Kings capitalized by cashing in three times against a Ducks penalty kill that had killed 12 straight penalties over two games and 24 of 28 overall entering Thursday.

The Kings re-established a four-point lead on Edmonton for second place in the Pacific Division and home ice in the first round following the Oilers’ win Wednesday, when captain Connor McDavid returned ahead of schedule to deliver three assists. The Kings gained no ground on division-leading Vegas, which still leads them by six points after beating Seattle on Thursday.

Anže Kopitar and Quinton Byfield had a goal and an assist apiece. Kevin Fiala scored twice on the power play. Adrian Kempe and Andrei Kuzmenko each contributed three assists and Mikey Anderson chipped in a pair. Alex Laferriere and Jordan Spence also scored. Darcy Kuemper allowed two goals or fewer for the 15th straight game and made 24 saves.

Drew Doughty and Joel Edmundson missed their second straight game due to injury, though Kempe was back in the mix following the birth of he and wife Sian’s first child, a daughter named Stellan, which means “peaceful one” in Swedish.

The Ducks’ Cutter Gauthier hit the 20-goal mark, with 18 of those coming at even strength. Lukáš Dostál had one of his worst nights of the season statistically, recording his fourth-worst save percentage with 23 of 29 stops.

Sixty-eight seconds into the final frame came Fiala scored his second goal of the evening and 32nd of the season 68 seconds into the third period. Like his first goal, it was a one-timer from the right circle, this one set up by Kuzmenko’s third assist of the evening.

They’d score again with 9:13 showing on the game clock, when Phil Danault’s low-to-high pass for Spence set up a seeing-eye one-timer from the blue line that found the net through four bodies for Spence’s fourth goal of the campaign.

In the second period, Gauthier continued his torrid stretch with a goal to tie the game at 1-1, his 20th of the season and fifth in three games. But then the Kings seized control, scoring a second power-play goal and adding two more at even strength.

Just 31 seconds after the Ducks equalized, Kopitar secured his 14th career 20-goal campaign with a deft deflection from the high slot that bounced off the ice and past Dostál. Only six European-born players have more seasons with 20 or more goals, and among those only Evgeni Malkin and Alex Ovechkin remain active.