from Helene Elliott of the LA Times,

Given a chance to win the Pacific Division title after the Kings squandered a three-goal lead over Winnipeg on Saturday and lost in overtime, the Ducks seized the moment Sunday. Their 2-0 victory over the Washington Capitals clinched their fourth consecutive division championship, gave goaltenders John Gibson and Frederik Andersen the Jennings trophy for playing on the team that allowed the fewest goals (188), and also left the team No. 1 in the NHL in special-teams play with a power-play efficiency of 23.2 percent and penalty-killing success rate of 87.2%.

"It's been a roller coaster," right wing Corey Perry said in a postgame interview on Fox Sports Prime. "After Christmas we were the team we thought we could be."

The Ducks kinged the Kings, in essence, by retrenching and building a defense-first focus that offered players a way out of a deep deficit and paved the way for offense to follow.

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