Bruins 3, Kings 1: Brad Marchand scored a pair of goals as host Boston notched its eighth victory in 10 games (8-1-1).

Chris Kelly netted the tiebreaking tally with 5:27 to play in the third period as the Bruins avenged a 2-0 loss at Los Angeles on Dec. 2. Tuukka Rask turned aside 30 shots to improve to 7-1-1 in his last nine starts.

Jordan Nolan scored the lone goal for the Kings, who absorbed their eighth defeat in 10 games (2-4-4) and fell to 5-10-6 away from home. Jonathan Quick took the loss despite making 30 saves in the opener of a five-game road trip.

Rask kept it scoreless with the best save of the game, snatching rookie Nick Shore's in-tight forehand shot with his glove on a clear breakaway with just under seven minutes remaining in the second period. Marchand finally broke the scoreless deadlock with 3:40 left in the session, taking a pass at the left point from captain Zdeno Chara and wristing a shot off the far post and in.

Nolan tied it with seven minutes remaining in the third, unleashing a shot from the left-wing boards that beat Rask high, but Kelly redirected a turnaround shot from Carl Soderberg past Quick 93 seconds later. Marchand sealed it by scoring into an empty net at 19:43.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Marchand has scored four times in his last five games to boost his team-high total to 15 goals. ... Quick, who blanked Boston on Dec. 2, was thwarted in his bid to record back-to-back wins for the first time since Dec. 18-20. ... Bruins LW Loui Eriksson had to exit the game with just over 4 1/2 minutes to play when Kings D Robyn Regehr slammed him into the boards from behind.