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Final Score: Nashville 3 - Los Angeles 2

Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Patric Hornqvist scored the game-winner late in the third period, as the Nashville Predators edged the Los Angeles Kings, 3-2, at Staples Center.

Steve Sullivan and Colin Wilson also scored for the Predators, who ended a four-game road trip with a 3-1-0 mark. Pekka Rinne made 18 saves for Nashville, which sits seventh in the Western Conference.

The Predators have won seven in a row against the Kings, and five straight in Los Angeles.

Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown lit the lamp for the Kings, who started a four- game homestand on Sunday. Jonathan Quick turned aside 28-of-31 shots for Los Angeles, which is currently fifth in the West.

"It is not about them [Predators], it is about us," Kopitar said. "The way we approached the game today we were lacking energy and lacking effort. It is not the way to start a game. Especially against a team we have not had success against. Most importantly, a team that is chasing us for a playoff spot. It is unacceptable."

With the score deadlocked at 1-1 in the third, Brown lit the lamp with a wrister from the slot at the 5:56 mark to give the Kings the edge.

Nashville had an answer just 39 seconds later. Martin Erat made his way in front and put a shot on net. Quick made the save but left a rebound for Wilson, who chipped the puck home.

Hornqvist then scored with 3:31 remaining to give the Predators a 3-2 margin. Dan Hamhuis' shot from the left point was gathered in front by Hornqvist, who was screening the LA netminder. Hornqvist made a quick move and beat Quick with a shot.

"It was a big goal, we had the puck deep, got the cycle going, and Hamhuis made a great play to me from the net and I got it around the goal and it was nice to see it went in," Hornqvist said. "Everybody in this locker room worked really hard and it was a nice game and two points is the biggest thing."

Los Angeles couldn't get the equalizer despite pulling Quick in the final minute for the extra attacker.

The Predators got on the board at the 4:42 mark of the first period. Sullivan gathered the disc at center ice and charged down the right side. The forward fired a shot from the bottom of the right circle that snuck past Quick.

Kopitar tied things up with a power-play goal at the 8:56 mark. Michal Handzus, who was positioned at the side of the net, slid a pass in front for Kopitar, whose wrister beat Rinne.

Quick made eight saves in a scoreless second frame, while Rinne stopped four shots.