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Brown leads Kings to first road win

Alec Martinez, Dustin Brown

VANCOUVER, CANADA - APRIL 13: Dustin Brown #23 of the Los Angeles Kings celebrates with Alec Martinez #27 after scoring his third goal of the game against the Vancouver Canucks during the third period in Game Two of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Arena on April 13, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images)

Kings’ captain Dustin Brown scored his second of the season, on his 30th birthday, leading L.A. to a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars Tuesday night.

Trevor Lewis, who returned from an upper body injury, and Kyle Clifford had the others for the Kings. The win was the Kings’ first victory away from the Staples Center this season. L.A. is now 1-3-2 on the road.

“He’s gonna work. I talked to him last night about getting him back into the penalty killing a little bit, because that’s what his role is on our team,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said of Lewis. “We switched Jarret (Stoll) and Mike (Richards) partway through the first period and put Mike with Kinger (Dwight King) and Brownie, and that helped us a little bit.”

“I think, and putting Jarret with Lewie and Cliffy helped us a little bit. Got to find ways to score when you’re not scoring. I mean, still the top end of your lineup’s got to score goals. Five-on-three, you’ve got to score a goal, and Gabby (Marian Gaborik) had some really good looks. If he’s sharper, he probably scores on a couple of them. It’s the way it goes.”

Shawn Horcoff had the lone goal for the Stars in the loss. Kari Lehtonen made 27 saves while seeing his record drop to 4-2-4 on the season.

Jonathan Quick improved to 6-3-2 with a 33 save performance.

There was a scary moment in the third period when Justin Williams received a high-stick from Stars defenseman Brenden Dillon.

Dillon received a double-minor for high-sticking while Williams left the game immediately.

Sutter said Williams should be OK.

“Lucky it wasn’t his eye…be careful, just see how it goes,” he said.

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