LOS ANGELES — El Día de los Muertos made an old rivalry rise from the dead as the Kings lost to the Chicago Blackhawks, their nemeses of the 2010s, 4-3 in a shootout that capped an unexpected thriller at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday.

The Kings had won five of their past seven games, including all three prior ones at home this season, while Chicago had the NHL’s worst points percentage entering the clash. Six of the last 11 meetings between these clubs have gone to overtime.

Alex Laferriere lit the lamp twice and Phillip Danault also scored for the Kings. Laferriere’s eight goals are as many as captain Anže Kopitar and two-time team goals leader Adrian Kempe have combined. Kevin Fiala tacked on two assists. Darcy Kuemper stopped 18 of 21 shots but none in the shootout.

Nick Foligno, Craig Smith and Tyler Bertuzzi each scored a goal for Chicago. Petr Mrázek shouldered nearly twice the load of Kuemper, making 37 saves on 40 shots.

This belly flop bore similarities to the Kings’ nosedive in San Jose on Tuesday, when they also let a weaker opponent get the better of them in the third period of an upset loss.

“The last couple games where we’ve had the lead, we’ve gotten away from our game a little bit and let those teams creep back in,” Laferriere said.

Overtime gave way to a shootout, where Kempe and Trevor Moore both scored for the Kings, but Chicago converted on all three tries with Connor Bedard, Teuvo Teräväinen and Ryan Donato connecting.

A mere 30.3 seconds were on the clock in regulation when, with Mrázek pulled for an extra attacker, Chicago tied the score and effectively forced overtime.

Kuemper tried to clear the puck but, after a touch by Bedard, it was kept in at the blue line by Seth Jones. His hard tap down to Donato opened up a centering pass to Bertuzzi, whose kneeling redirection hit net as Vladislav Gavrikov watched.

With 8:12 to play, the Kings went up again by way of Danault’s first goal of the season. An offensive-zone faceoff win set up Moore’s pass for Fiala’s one-timer that missed, clanked off the end boards and went to Danault, who had outworked Jones down low, for a pop-in goal.

“Coincidentally, (Danault scored), but he played his best game of the year,” Kings coach Jim Hiller said.

Though the Kings owned every favorable analytic indicator as well as heavy edges in traditional stats faceoffs and shots on net, they let Chicago linger and soon found themselves in a tie game as Chicago struck at 3:26 and at 5:34 of the third period.

Defenseman Alex Vlasic started a seemingly innocuous breakout before Lukas Reichel burst across three zones to deliver a slick backhand pass into the slot for Smith’s one-timer.

Just more than two minutes earlier, Foligno turned another innocent-looking play into a goal. He lurched from the red line to the high slot and let fly with a long shot. As Foligno beat Joel Edmundson to the net for the rebound, Kuemper swiped at the puck and appeared to sweep it in with the back of his glove.

The Kings maintained a heavy shot advantage wire-to-wire Saturday but it was a one-shot game for most of the first 40 minutes, including a pair of unsuccessful Chicago power plays, until Laferriere cushioned their lead with 1:23 remaining in the second period.

Laferriere was a much more active participant on his second goal than on his first, a backdoor tap-in. His forechecking forced Vlasic’s turnover in the Chicago zone. Then, after Chicago recovered the puck, Laferriere chased the play to the red line where he separated Bertuzzi from the puck to send Alex Turcotte and Danault off on a counterattack. Laferriere trailed and potted his eighth goal.