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It\u2019s been a close series, with the Avalanche taking advantage of Kings\u2019 miscues to win 4-2 in Game 3. The Kings also had an unfortunate bounce on the Avalanche\u2019s first goal, when Gabriel Landeskog<\/a>\u2019s shot went wide, went off the end boards, off Kings goalie Anton Forsberg<\/a>\u2019s skate and in.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s this time of year, right? Sometimes you get the bounce, sometimes you don\u2019t. You have to have a very narrow-minded focus,\u201d Los Angeles forward Scott Laughton<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cIt\u2019s tough this time of year. We\u2019ve got to stick to the process, and obviously you don\u2019t like being down. Well, we\u2019re down, but we\u2019re in this situation, and you start with one game and one period, your first shift, and you go from there and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n So, will it take a perfect game for the Kings to win Game 4 and force the series back to Colorado?<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s that way, but I think you have to be loose now,\u201d Kings interim coach D.J. Smith said. \u201cYou know the ultimate end result if you don\u2019t win, so sometimes when that happens, you grip it a little less and you make a play maybe that you wouldn\u2019t have made early on. But I can tell you this: I just finished doing the game, there are a lot of guys playing hard and giving everything they have to win a hockey game. It hasn\u2019t gone our way. The No. 1 thing you can\u2019t do is get down on yourself, get down on your team, get down on your teammates and I don\u2019t see any of that in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n The Avalanche know closing out a team is always the toughest game of the series.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we get, we get it. If we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t. We\u2019ll be ready for the next one. The goal is to play a great game and we\u2019ll see where that takes us,\u201d said forward Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, who\u2019s happy with the style the Avalanche have played. \u201cWe\u2019re super committed to our defensive game. Everyone\u2019s on the same page, everyone\u2019s playing super hard. Guys are playing awesome, so that\u2019s all you can ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n There have been 213 teams taking 3-0 lead in a best-of-7 series, with 98 percent winning (209-4): 129 won in four games, 58 won in five games, 16 won in six games, six won in Game 7 and four lost the series. Eight of the past 10 series that were 3-0 advanced to at least Game 5 (dating to the start of the 2023 first round).<\/p>\n Here are 3 things to watch in Game 4:\n <\/p><\/div>\n LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings will try to stave off elimination when they play the Colorado Avalanche in Game 4 at\u00a0Crypto.com Arena on Sunday. It\u2019s been a close series, with the Avalanche taking advantage of Kings\u2019 miscues to win 4-2 in Game 3. 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