LOS ANGELES (AP) The new kids kept having their way with the
Los Angeles Kings ¨C until late in the game Monday night.Anze Kopitar tied the
score with 10.8 seconds left in the third period and Dustin Brown delivered a
power-play goal 3:14 into overtime
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rallying the Kings to a 3-2 victory against the Vegas Golden Knights.It was the
first win for Los Angeles in three games against the expansion Golden Knights,
who sit atop the Western Conference. The teams meet again Tuesday in Las
Vegas.¡±You know what? We stayed with it,¡± Kings coach John Stevens said after
his team stopped a two-game skid. ¡±We chased the game a little bit there.¡±Jeff
Carter, in his second game back after missing 55 with a cut tendon, trimmed Los
Angeles¡¯ deficit to 2-1 on a power play at 12:28 of the third. Jonathan Quick
stopped 37 shots.Erik Haula and Reilly Smith scored for Vegas. Marc-Andre Fleury
made 41 saves.Los Angeles needed a bit of luck to finally break through against
Fleury. Carter scored his first goal of the season when his shot deflected in
off the helmet of Vegas¡¯ Cody Eakin.¡±It was a great game,¡± Golden Knights coach
Gerrard Gallant said. ¡±Our team competed hard and played really well tonight. We
had a 2-0 lead and, unfortunately, they got a power-play goal that was a bit
lucky.¡±Los Angeles pulled Quick and, after a flurry of shots, tied it 2-all when
Kopitar took a sharp pass from Dion Phaneuf on the left side and fired it past
Fleury for his 26th goal.¡±The flurry at the end was outstanding,¡± Stevens said.
¡±Guys came up with a lot of loose pucks. There was a lot of hunger for loose
pucks.¡±Fleury appeared to be headed for his third shutout of the season until
the Kings¡¯ late rally.Then they started patiently with their power play in
overtime, working the puck around until Brown found Tyler Toffoli¡¯s rebound in
front of a sprawled-out Fleury and flicked it in for the game-winner.It was
Brown¡¯s 19th goal of the season.¡±You can¡¯t look at the scoreboard during the
game,¡± Brown said. ¡±I mean, you have to just start with your next shift. It¡¯s a
simple thing. There are no three-point plays.¡±The Golden Knights appeared to
have things in hand early.In a tight game, they seemed to take command 47
seconds into the third when Smith came around from behind the net to flick
William Karlsson¡¯s rebound past Quick for his 21st goal of the season and a 2-0
lead.The Golden Knights struck first 4:37 into the game
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Angeles. Vegas had been 26-3 when scoring first.The opening score came from
Haula, who broke through alone on the right side and fired a wrist shot over
Quick¡¯s left shoulder. It was his 23rd of the season.But things turned
late.¡±They kept creating chances,¡± Smith said. ¡±They created a lot of scrambles
in front of the net. We played a good team game. Quick made a lot of big saves
and kept them in it.¡±Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault was happy with the
Knights¡¯ play and upset about only one thing: ¡±Fleury was outstanding and he
didn¡¯t get the win. That¡¯s the only thing that¡¯s not positive.¡±NOTES: The Kings
honored the U.S. Olympic women¡¯s hockey team before the game. Each woman was
individually introduced and walked onto the ice wearing her gold medal. Team
captain Meghan Duggan dropped the ceremonial first puck. . It was Brown¡¯s fourth
game-winning goal of the season.UP NEXTGolden Knights: Play the Kings again
Tuesday, this time in Las Vegas.Kings: On the road Tuesday against the Golden
Knights.¡ª Jason Botterill has experienced both sides of the spectrum in
confronting the challenges of building a competitive NHL team versus trying to
sustain one.In Buffalo, the Sabres¡¯ second-year general manager is attempting to
rebuild from scratch a team in the midst of a franchise-worst, seven-year
playoff drought. In his previous job as assistant GM in Pittsburgh, the test was
keeping together a Sidney Crosby-led core of a team that became the first in
nearly 20 years to repeat as Stanley Cup champions in 2016-17.Botterill noted
the common denominator for both comes down to scouting.¡°You¡¯re always searching
for talent,¡± Botterill said. ¡°So it gets back to the importance of finding
players that are going to join your system.¡±Teams at the bottom need to
stockpile young talent, and hope it eventually jells. The Sabres, for example,
enter this season with the top new player to watch in 18-year-old defenseman
Rasmus Dahlin , the No. 1 pick in this year¡¯s draft.Other rebuilding teams are
counting on their youngsters to make immediate impacts.In Ottawa, the Senators
are turning to rookie first-round pick Brady Tkachuk. In Vancouver, there¡¯s
center Elias Pettersson. The Carolina Hurricanes, meanwhile
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the draft and signing European and college free agents.As Penguins GM Jim
Rutherford also noted, the NHL¡¯s salary-cap system means successful teams have a
more difficult time retaining their own talent.¡°You want to keep those players,
but you can¡¯t,¡± Rutherford said. ¡°We went through it two years ago when we lost
a bunch of real key players. There¡¯s nothing to do about it. You can¡¯t.¡±Valuable
as they were, forward Chris Kunitz, goalie Marc Andre-Fleury, defensemen Eric
Fehr and Ian Cole, and in this offseason¡¯s case, forward Conor Sheary, were
among the players the Penguins were unable to retain.Hall of Fame coach Scotty
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to maintain a contender, though it¡¯s not all that different since winning his
first championship with the 1973 Montreal Canadiens.¡°The challenge is you have
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they had a slogan that was in the dressing room. It said ¡®And the kids go
marching on.¡¯ That was 50 years ago, but it¡¯s so much more now.¡±A list of some
of the top newcomers (and one familiar returnee) to look out for this
season:RASMUS DAHLIN, Buffalo Sabres defensemanHe¡¯s a smooth-skating, heads-up
play-making Swedish-born blue-liner, who has shown a fearless ability of jumping
into the rush. Dahlin will require time to adapt to the smaller NHL ice surface
and has shown signs of being a little too cavalier with the puck in committing
turnovers. He is improving as a defender, and expected to quarterback the top
power-play unit. The Sabres intend to allow Dahlin to learn from his mistakes in
giving him plenty of playing time this year.ELIAS PETTERSSON, Vancouver Canucks
centerWith Vancouver¡¯s 2018 first-round draft pick defenseman Quinn Hughes
committed to playing this season at Michigan, there¡¯s plenty of buzz over
Pettersson, the No. 5 overall pick in 2017. He¡¯s coming off a season in which he
helped Vaxjo win the Swedish Elite League championship and earned regular-season
and playoff MVP honors.RYAN DONATO, Boston Bruins forwardAfter spending three
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22-year-old got a head start on his NHL career by scoring five goals and nine
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Observer this week. Foegele had two goals and an assist in his first two NHL
games last season, and also finished second in AHL Charlotte with 28 goals as a
rookie.BRADY TKACHUK, Ottawa Senators forwardSelected with the No. 4 pick in the
draft, the son of former NHL star Keith Tkachuk is considered a key building
block of a Senators team rebuilding from scratch. At 19, he overcame a slow
start in his freshman year at Boston University to score eight goals and 31
points in 40 games. Ottawa¡¯s youth movement also includes Colin White, a 2015
first-round pick, who had two goals and four assists in 21 NHL games last
season.ILYA KOVALCHUK, Los Angeles Kings left wingHe¡¯s back. After spending the
past five seasons playing in the Kontinental Hockey League, the NHL¡¯s 2001 No. 1
draft pick has returned to North America after signing a three-year contract
with the Kings. At 35, Kovalchuk showed he¡¯s not lost a step in splitting two
Vegas defenseman and scoring his first preseason goal in a 7-2 loss last week.
Kovalchuk has 417 goals and 816 points in 816 career games.