In Los Angeles, the visiting Chicago Blackhawks rallied from 2-0 and 3-2 holes on Saturday night; the last rally forced extra time on a goal from Jonathan Toews.
Drew Doughty ended the Hawks’ night when he scored with 17 seconds left in extra time to give the Kings a 4-3 win.
“You count on players like that to provide big moments, both offensively and defensively, and he provided one of those tonight for us,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “He made a good play on the initial 2-on-1 and I think he was building momentum to come back to our end. Usually it’s a track meet, 2-on-1 one way, 2-on-1 the other, and he saw the loose puck and was smart enough and had enough poise to break his skating down and put it in. So good for him.”
Jack Campbell made 24 saves to get the win.
David Kampf and Dominik Kubalik rallied the Hawks back from the 0-2 deficit.
Michael Amadio, Matt Roy and Kyle Clifford scored for LA.
“It makes me feel good, but it should make them feel really good,” McLellan said. “That’s what we want to hang our hat on. I didn’t think we played that way for five, six, seven periods, so tonight we were able to sustain it, line one, two, three and four. We just kept handing off good shifts, and momentum was built, and we sustained it.”
LA improved to 5-9-0.
“I was a little bit tired because I played maybe two or three minutes in overtime, so when you see the ice open up for you like that you’re not tired anymore. You just take off,” Doughty said.
Chicago dropped to 3-6-3.
Robin Lehner iced for seven minutes for the Blackhawks after officials requested a concussion protocol for Crawford after he was hit in the head by a shot. Crawford was cleared to return to the game.
Lehner made five saves in those minutes.
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Corey Crawford made 40 saves in the loss.
“It was nice of us to tie it late,” Crawford said. “We get a point out of it. We had a chance to win it too in OT, but I mean it’s not going to be easy. We just got to keep working hard, maybe work a little bit harder.”
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