Kings leave an impression on Ducks

The Kings’ record nine-game winning streak is hardly news to the Ducks -- after all, they were victim No. 8.

“They’re a good hockey club that is rolling along, obviously, and yesterday was an example again, coming back from a 3-0 deficit,” Ducks Coach Randy Carlyle said Sunday, the day after the Kings rallied to beat Detroit, 4-3.

“For them to come back and beat the Detroit Red Wings, that’s no easy feat.”

The Kings -- who play the Ducks on Monday night in Anaheim -- have won six of their franchise-record nine in a row by comebacks, and six by a one-goal margin.

Their record in one-goal games this season: 20-8-3.

Their record when they take a lead into the third period: 22-0-0.

“They play with a lot of energy, and they’re playing a simple game,” Ducks winger Todd Marchant said. “They’re getting pucks in deep and getting close to the net. When you do that, your chance of success goes up greatly.

“They’re not a tic-tac-toe team by any means. They work the puck down low very well and guys go to the dirty areas, and you look at guys like [Michal] Handzus and Ryan Smyth and Dustin Brown. These are guys that go to those tough areas to get those goals.

“So that’s what they’re doing right now and it’s working for them.”

Rolling with it

The Kings’ task isn’t so much to continue to go unbeaten, but to sustain their level of play through the streak and afterward.

“It can have a real positive effect,” Coach Terry Murray said. “Or it can go the other way and you can get a little too complacent. It starts to come easy.

“You get away from that extra effort that got you there. That’s what you have to guard against. We want to build on it.

“We’ve got some big games before the Olympic break. Let’s pour it all in here for the remaining part to get a couple of weeks off.”

Tiring types

Carlyle said he thought the Ducks seemed mentally tired in their 6-4 loss to the Kings last week after a two-week trip, and he gave them two days off the ice Friday and Saturday. The players participated in a charity event Friday but had no other obligations before Sunday’s practice.

“The one thing I’m never going to be critical of is your players have to have rest if you’re going to expect them -- and you’re going to push them -- to give 110%,” Carlyle said. “You can’t give it if you don’t have proper rest.”

Burke remembered

A group of representatives from the Ducks organization will travel to the Boston area for the memorial service Tuesday for Brendan Burke, the son of former Ducks general manager Brian Burke.

Brendan Burke, 22, died Friday in a weather-related car accident in Indiana.

“I have a son, two of them, a little older,” said Carlyle, whose sons, Craig and Derek, are in their early- to mid-20s.

“When they were in town together, they went to movies and what-not. So there is a relationship and a bond there between our families.”

Carlyle cannot attend because of the Ducks’ schedule but said his wife, Corey, will be part of a group going to Boston that will include ownership and upper management.

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Times staff writer Kevin Baxter contributed to this report.