In Boston, Matt Roy scored with less than three minutes left on the clock to get the Los Angeles Kings to a 3-3 tie with the Bruins and force extra time on Monday.
Anze Kopitar completed the rally for the Kings when he scored with 1:37 remaining in the extra session for a 4-3 win over Boston.
“You think about the score,” Kopitar said. “it’s 2-2 after two periods, you’re playing obviously a very, very good game in Boston and you’re on the road. So there’s nothing to be discouraged about, and they went out, they got on the board early [in the third period], but we just kind of hung in there, hung in there, and it was obviously a good shot from [Roy], and we were able to tie it up, and eventually we were able to win it in OT.”
Jonathan Quick made 37 saves to get the win as the Kings extended their point streak to five games.
Danton Heinen, Patrice Bergeron and Brandon Carlo scored for the Bruins.
Boston is 1-4-2 in their last seven games.
“We’re going to look at things,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We switched some lines up again. Listen, there’s 82 of these, I thought we certainly played well enough to win. Not very happy only getting one point tonight, some nights you’re satisfied. But in terms of the process part of it, there were better things than there was, say, two weeks ago.”
Blake Lizotte and Adrian Kempe also scored for the Kings.
“Well, I couldn’t be happier for the guys,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “They had to put a lot into that game to win, stick with it to the bitter end, and there’s a lot of happy Kings in the locker room after. They deserve to celebrate around each other. [It’s] not an easy place to play, not an easy team to play against, not an easy comeback. To think that we’re [two minutes] away from not getting any points, based on the type of goal they scored to go ahead, was a little disappointing, but a hard-fought game.”
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Tuukka Rask made 23 saves in the loss.
“Yeah we had some [prime chances],” Boston;s Jake DeBrusk said. “I think we had two breakaways in OT, and anytime you can have that, obviously he’s a very good goaltender on their side, he’s been one of their keystone players and for good reason, he showed it tonight. I thought we had some chances there in the third as well, and myself personally, so anytime you’re playing that way, it feels like you almost deserved better. And just didn’t result in that way.”
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