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Los Angeles 0 5 1 1--7
Ottawa 2 3 1 0--6
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Hossa 19 (Bonk, Zamuner), 4:18. 2,
Ottawa, Mceachern 15 (unassisted), 12:41. Penalties: Rivers, Ott
(slashing), 18:43.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 3, Ottawa, Alfredsson 9 (power play)
(Mceachern), 4:13. 4, Ottawa, Yashin 16 (power play) (Redden, Alfredsson),
8:14. 5, Los Angeles, Smolinski 13 (Visnovsky, G Murray), 11:29. 6,
Ottawa, Hnidy 1 (Dackell, Havlat), 11:48. 7, Los Angeles, M Schneider 12
(Laperriere, Belanger), 13:58. 8, Los Angeles, Smolinski 14 (Reinprecht),
15:12. 9, Los Angeles, Blake 15 (unassisted), 16:10. 10, Los Angeles,
Robitaille 20 (Blake, Palffy), 19:15. Penalties: Alfredsson, Ott
(holding), 1:21; Smolinski, L.A. (interference), 3:48; Robitaille, L.A.
(charging), 6:46; Blake, L.A. (cross checking), 7:38.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 11, Ottawa, Rachunek 1 (power play) (Yashin,
Redden), 10:14. 12, Los Angeles, Robitaille 21 (power play) (Palffy,
Stumpel), 11:36. Penalties: Emerson, L.A. (interference), 6:40; M
Schneider, L.A. (cross checking), 9:45; Bonk, Ott (cross checking), 10:52;
Gagnon, Ott (high sticking), 13:00.
OVERTIME -- Scoring: 13, Los Angeles, Smolinski 15 (M Schneider,
Visnovsky), 2:01.
Shots on goal:
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Los Angeles 8 18 10 1--37
Ottawa 10 9 8 0--27
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Power-play Conversions: Los - 1 of 4, Ott - 3 of 5. Goalies: Los
Angeles, Passmore (15 shots, 10 saves), Storr (11:48 of 2nd period, 12,
11; record: 14-12-5). Ottawa, Lalime (37, 30; record: 18-9-3). A:18,264.
Referees: Martell, Trottier. Linesmen: Murray, M Pare.
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
Los Angeles Ottawa
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
Belanger 0 1 +2 4 Alfredsson 1 1 -2 4
Berg 0 0 -2 2 Bonk 0 1 even 1
Blake 1 1 +3 4 Dackell 0 1 even 0
Buchberger 0 0 -1 0 Emmons 0 0 -1 0
Corkum 0 0 -1 1 Fisher 0 0 even 1
Emerson 0 0 +1 1 Gagnon 0 0 -1 0
G Murray 0 1 +1 1 Havlat 0 1 even 3
Grimson 0 0 even 0 Hnidy 1 0 -2 3
Karalahti 0 0 -1 0 Hossa 1 0 -1 1
Laperriere 0 1 +2 1 Mceachern 1 1 -2 4
M Schneider 1 1 +2 4 Phillips 0 0 -1 0
Norstrom 0 0 +3 0 Rachunek 1 0 even 3
Palffy 0 2 +1 4 Redden 0 2 -1 1
Reinprecht 0 1 +1 2 Rivers 0 0 -1 0
Robitaille 2 0 +1 5 Roy 0 0 even 0
Smolinski 3 0 +1 5 V Prospal 0 0 even 3
Stumpel 0 1 even 1 Yashin 1 1 -2 1
Visnovsky 0 2 +1 2 Zamuner 0 1 even 2
Tuomainen Healthy Forbes Healthy
Modry Healthy Arvedson Knee Injury
Thomas Healthy York Flu
Game Story
OTTAWA (Ticker) -- Bryan Smolinski completed a hat trick in
style with an overtime goal and the Los Angeles Kings staged a
dramatic come-from-behind win over the Ottawa Senators.
Smolinski skated down the left boards, flipped the puck over the
stick of defenseman Chris Phillips, swooped to the front of the
net and fired a shot past goaltender Patrick Lalime at 2:01 of
the extra period to give the Kings a 7-6 victory.
"I was going hard down the wing and I didn't really have a shot,
so I poked it over his (Phillips) stick and tried to bury it,"
Smolinski said.
It was the second career hat trick for Smolinski, who helped the
Kings erase a 5-1 deficit.
Luc Robitaille, who was named to his eighth NHL All-Star Game
earlier in the day, scored a pair of goals for Los Angeles and
moved into 13th-place on the all-time list with 574, surpassing
Mike Bossy.
"(Bossy) was obviously a great player and it's a great honor,
but this one showed the character of our team more than
anything," Robitaille said. "We got every goal out of our tough
forechecking effort and we deserved every bit of this win."
The Kings scored four goals in a 5:17 span late in the second
period to tie it at 5-5.
Ottawa regained the lead on a power-play goal by rookie Karel
Rachunek, the first of his NHL career, with 9:46 left in the
third period. Alexei Yashin deflected defenseman Wade Redden's
shot in front and Rachunek tapped in the rebound from the right
side of the net.
But Robitaille responded 82 seconds later with a power-play
tally. He skated from behind the net and tried to slide a pass
in front to Jozef Stumpel. But the puck deflected off teammate
Ziggy Palffy's skate and back to Robitaille, who put a
backhander past Lalime.
"We didn't show up until the second, but once we did, we were
firing on all cylinders," Smolinski said. "We came back twice.
It was a crazy game. It just goes to show you can never give
up."
The Kings entered as the league's third-highest scoring team,
while the Senators ranked second behind New Jersey among Eastern
Conference teams in goals-against.
But Ottawa built a 4-0 lead on first-period goals by Marian
Hossa and Shawn McEachern and second-period power-play tallies
by Daniel Alfredsson and Yashin.
Hossa one-timed a pass from Radek Bonk between the circles off
goaltender Steve Passmore's left pad. McEachern, a former King,
fired a rolling puck from the right circle over Passmore's
glove. McEachern set up Alfredsson's goal when he stripped the
puck from Kelly Buchberger on the right boards and passed in
front to Alfredsson, who lifted a shot over Passmore.
Yashin scored on a rebound of Redden's shot.
"We forgot the rink had two ends and we let them back in the
game when we clearly had control," Alfredsson said. "It feels a
little bit like a loss, but we earned a point and learned a good
lesson."
Smolinski scored Los Angeles' first goal when he deflected
rookie Lubomir Visnovsky's shot past Patrick Lalime with 8:31
left in the second period.
But the Senators scored 19 seconds later on rookie Shane Hnidy's
slap shot from just inside the blue line. It was Hnidy's first
NHL goal and chased Passmore.
Jamie Storr came on and stopped 11 of 12 shots.
"Passmore did not have a particularly good night and we made the
change and our guys battled back," Kings coach Andy Murray said.
"Jamie was steady for us."
"When you come in and you're down like that, you want to do your
job and make the saves," Storr said. "We had a great comeback."
Facing a 5-1 deficit, the Kings began to attack with reckless
abandon, and it paid off. Defenseman Mathieu Schneider pinched
in from the right point, took a pass from Ian Laperriere and
fired a shot from the right circle under Lalime's right arm with
6:02 left in the period. Schneider ranks third among NHL
defenseman with 12 goals.
Smolinski's second goal came off a perfect pass from rookie
Steven Reinprecht with 4:48 remaining in the period.
Defenseman Rob Blake, the subject of trade rumors, scored an
unassisted goal 58 seconds later to pull the Kings within 5-4.
Hoping to keep the Senators on their heels, four Los Angeles
players, including defenseman Mattias Norstrom, crashed the net.
Lalime stopped a shot by Palffy and the rebound was deflected
back to Blake, who blasted a shot from the right point past
Lalime's right pad to pull the Kings within 5-4.
Robitaille's 20th goal tied it with 45 seconds left in the
period. He skated in from the right side and fired a shot that
lodged under Lalime's pads. But Robitaille continued toward the
net and jammed the puck through the goalie's pads.
"We knew they had a good team and that they could score goals,"
Lalime said. "But we didn't keep to our simple game plan and we
paid the price at the end."