The Los Angeles Kings placed forward Brendan Lemieux on injured reserve Sunday with a lower-body injury.

Lemieux did not return after delivering a second-period hit to Detroit forward Adam Erne in Saturday’s 4-3 victory against the Red Wings.

“I think he’s probably going to be out for a little while,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said after the game.

Lemieux, 26, has no goals and three assists in 15 games this season. He leads Los Angeles in penalty minutes (28) and ranks second on the team in hits (42).

The Kings also assigned defenseman Brandt Clarke to the Ontario Reign on a conditioning loan and recalled forward Lias Andersson and defenseman Jacob Moverare from the American Hockey League club.

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The NHL fined Calgary forward Blake Coleman $5,000 on Sunday for slew-footing Pierre-Luc Dubois of the Winnipeg Jets.

The incident occurred at the 18:33 mark of the first period in the Flames’ 3-2 home win over the Jets on Saturday.

Coleman was assessed a two-minute penalty for tripping. The fine amount is the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement.

Coleman, 30, has collected one goal, three assists and 14 penalty minutes in 14 games this season.

A two-time Stanley Cup winner, Coleman has 163 points (88 goals, 75 assists) in 396 career games with the New Jersey Devils, Tampa Bay Lightning and Flames.

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Colorado Avalanche forward Shane Bowers will be sidelined approximately six weeks with an upper-body injury, coach Jared Bednar confirmed Sunday.

A 2017 first-round pick, Bowers was hurt after playing less than two minutes in his NHL debut on Thursday night against Nashville.

He skated three shifts and attempted one shot on goal in 1:46 of ice time before exiting the 5-3 win against the Predators.

Bowers, 23, registered two goals and four assists in 10 games with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles this season.

The Ottawa Senators selected the Nova Scotia native with the 28th pick in 2017 and traded him to the Avalanche that November.

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When the New York Rangers headed out for a two-game Midwest swing, they were dejected about another home loss, especially one to the Islanders.

After experiencing mixed results on their trip, the Rangers will attempt to halt a three-game home losing streak (0-2-1) Sunday night when they host the Arizona Coyotes.

New York is a pedestrian 3-3-3 at home this season, where they have been outscored 27-22 and have blown multi-goal leads in their past two home contests. On Tuesday, the Rangers followed up a 3-2 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings by allowing three goals in the final 20 minutes of a 4-3 loss to the Islanders.

After the defeat to the Islanders, the Rangers busted out when 12 players registered at least one point in an 8-2 rout at Detroit on Thursday that featured six goals in the third period. On Saturday, New York took a 2-1 loss at Nashville when it outshot the Predators 35-18 and went 0-for-5 on the power play, including a four-minute man advantage late in the third.

“It wasn’t as good as it should have been,” New York coach Gerard Gallant said of the team’s power play. “I mean, that was the difference, obviously. They had some looks, but they didn’t have the premier looks that they usually get. Just a little off, that’s all.”

The inability to score meant the end of seven-game point streaks by Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider. Zibanejad had 10 points (five goals, five assists) while Kreider had nine points (four goals, five assists) during their seven games.

“We controlled the play and we just need to keep doing what we’re doing,” New York’s Barclay Goodrow added. “It can get frustrating, but we can’t get down. It’s all about moving on and getting the two points tomorrow night.”

Two weeks ago, the Rangers improved to 12-1-2 in the past 15 meetings with the Coyotes when Zibanejad scored the tiebreaking goal in the third on the power play in a 3-2 win in Arizona on Oct. 30.

The Rangers won that meeting after playing an afternoon game in Dallas the previous day.

This time, they took a late night flight back to the New York area while the Coyotes merely must cross the Hudson River for the game. They have been in the New York area since Wednesday.

Arizona is 3-1-0 on its 14-game road trip after taking a 4-2 loss Saturday night in Newark, N.J., to the red-hot New Jersey Devils. The Coyotes are on the lengthy trip and play 20 of their first 24 games on the road while a locker room annex is completed at their temporary new home, Mullett Arena on the Arizona State University campus.

Dylan Guenther and Clayton Keller scored tying goals on the power-play before the Coyotes allowed two goals in a span of 2:56 in the second period. Those goals gave Arizona 15 goals in 48 power-play opportunities (31.3 percent).

“Everyone out there has got a lot of confidence,” Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said. “We just want to keep doing everything we can to stay as hot as we can on the power play.”

The Coyotes finished with 18 shots on goal and have only cracked 30 shots once this season. That was in a 7-2 loss to the Dallas Stars on Nov. 3 before they opened the trip with wins over the Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres and Islanders.

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Looking to build off a Saturday win in Buffalo, the Boston Bruins will have three opportunities to continue their season-opening home success this week.

A rare Sunday night game against the Vancouver Canucks both begins Boston’s homestand and completes a back-to-back weekend set for both teams.

The Bruins boast a franchise-record-tying 8-0-0 record at home this season, making them the only NHL team without a blemish in their home arena to start the campaign.

Following Saturday’s 3-1 win in Buffalo, the Bruins return home with a three-game winning streak. Captain Patrice Bergeron scored twice, while Jakub Zboril’s first NHL goal fell in between and stood as the game-winning tally.

All three Bruins goals came unanswered after Buffalo scored a short-handed goal in the first period.

“(Saturday) was the first time, I think, in the whole year where I thought we were on our heels and didn’t have our skating legs for 40 minutes,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “There wasn’t a Picasso moment out there in the first two periods besides the special teams and our goaltender.”

The goaltender was Keith Kinkaid, who made 30 saves in his first start since he was recalled in the wake of Jeremy Swayman’s injury.

Like Zboril scoring, it was yet another sign of the organization’s depth and ability to win in different ways.

“We can score, we can defend and we can check,” Montgomery said. “And if you wanna play rough and physical, we can do that too.”

The Bruins have outscored their opponents 23-7 in third periods this season. Two of those goals came on Saturday.

“We’re successful when we play Bruins hockey, especially in that last 20 — we got back to playing on our toes and playing hard, and being on the forecheck, and getting some pucks back,” Bergeron said.

Sunday’s contest marks Vancouver’s fourth stop on a five-game road trip. The trip started in Ottawa and continued in Montreal and Toronto. The Canucks will finish it off in Buffalo on Tuesday night.

The Canucks dropped a 3-2 decision in Toronto on Saturday despite captain Bo Horvat continuing his stellar pace with his team-leading 13th goal, a mark that he didn’t reach until the 38th game of last season.

Toronto’s three goals all came in the second period, erasing Vancouver’s 2-0 lead. Spencer Martin made 27 saves, but a tying goal to support him wasn’t in the cards.

“I don’t think we quit or anything. We tried to the end,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau said. “At that point we didn’t get shots through, and you’ve got to get shots through. … If they got through, maybe it would have been a different story.”

Horvat’s seven goals in November are the most among all NHL players, while only Edmonton captain Connor McDavid has a higher season total (15) entering play on Sunday.

“I just want to play hard, I want to prove to myself that I’m a good hockey player, a guy that can be a leader, score and be a 200-foot player,” Horvat said. “I want to prove that to myself and to everyone else.”

Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes is on a run of his own, having recorded at least one assist in nine consecutive games. The only Canucks defenseman to put together a longer streak is Dennis Kearns, who had assists in 11 straight games in 1976-77.

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