Kings fall to Detroit for 12th time in row

Persistence pays, especially when the Detroit Red Wings face the Kings.

Detroit got goals from six players Sunday night in a 6-2 win, the Red Wings’ 12th in a row over the Kings.

Alexander Frolov scored twice for the Kings. His first goal, a backhanded shot over a prone Dominik Hasek, came on a power play at 1 minute 55 seconds of the second period and tied the score, 1-1.

Frolov’s second goal and 21st this season, a slap shot from the high slot, brought the Kings to within one with 7:18 left.

“When it was 3-2, we had momentum,” the Kings’ Sean Avery said. “But they took it away, that’s what good teams do.”

After struggling on offense early in the season, the Red Wings scored at least five goals for the fifth time in their last 13 games.

Pavel Datsyuk and Jason Williams each had a goal and an assist, and Tomas Holmstrom, Valtteri Filppula, Kris Draper and Mikael Samuelsson also scored.

Hasek made 28 saves.

Detroit scored twice in less than two minutes.

Filppula scored at 4:50 of the second period when the rebound of his shot deflected in off his skate as he slid toward the net. Datsyuk gave the Red Wings a 3-1 lead at 6:40, when he beat Mathieu Garon with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle for his 10th goal.

Draper restored Detroit’s two-goal lead with 2:48 remaining in the period, when he completed a two-on-one break by knocking Johan Franzen’s pass into the net.