GOAL SCORING:
1ST PRD: LOS - (PP) MATHIEU SCHNEIDER 2 (BRYAN
SMOLINSKI) 17:50
2ND PRD: LOS - (PP) BRYAN SMOLINSKI 1 (MATHIEU SCHNEIDER,
LUC ROBITAILLE) 5:23
LOS - (PP) LUC ROBITAILLE 5 (BRYAN SMOLINSKI, ZIGMUND PALFFY) 12:22
LOS - (PP) ZIGMUND PALFFY 3 (ROB BLAKE, MATHIEU SCHNEIDER) 16:13
3RD PRD: STL - PAVOL DEMITRA 1 (LUBOS BARTECKO, SEAN
HILL) 1:15
STL - SCOTT YOUNG 5 (DALLAS DRAKE, PIERRE TURGEON) 3:29
STL - SCOTT YOUNG 6 (PIERRE TURGEON) 5:42
STL - JOCHEN HECHT 2 (PIERRE TURGEON, SCOTT YOUNG) 19:26 OT: NONE
POWER-PLAY CONVERSIONS: STL - 0 OF 7, LOS - 4 OF 9.
SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD OT TOTAL
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STL 7
9 11 4
31
LOS 11
7 6 1
25
GOALIES: STL - ROMAN TUREK
LOS - JAMIE STORR
OFFICIALS: REF - MEIER, SHICK
LIN - MITTON, BONNEY
ATT: 18,118
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St Louis 0 0 4
0--4
Los Angeles 1 3 0 0--4
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Los Angeles, M Schneider 2 (power play) (Smolinski), 17:50. Penalties: R Blake, L.A. (high sticking), 1:49; Los Angeles bench, served by J Blake (too many men on the ice), 7:37; R Blake, L.A. (hooking), 11:43; Demitra, Stl (interference), 12:56; Khavanov, Stl (interference), 17:46.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, Los Angeles, Smolinski 1 (power play) (M Schneider, Robitaille), 5:23. 3, Los Angeles, Robitaille 5 (power play) (Palffy, Smolinski), 12:22. 4, Los Angeles, Palffy 3 (power play) (R Blake, M Schneider), 16:13. Penalties: Nash, Stl (roughing), 0:37; Berg, L.A. (high sticking), 0:37; Pronger, Stl (instigator, fighting major, misconduct), 4:52; Buchberger, L.A. (roughing), 4:52; Nash, Stl (slashing), 5:08; Smolinski, L.A. (Obstr hooking), 7:31; Emerson, L.A. (high sticking), 9:13; S Hill, Stl (slashing), 11:04; Reinprecht, L.A. (holding stick), 13:08; Khavanov, Stl (holding), 15:36; S Hill, Stl (slashing), 16:31; Los Angeles bench, served by J Blake (too many men on the ice), 18:24.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 5, St Louis, Demitra 1 (Bartecko, S Hill), 1:15. 6, St Louis, Young 5 (Drake, P Turgeon), 3:29. 7, St Louis, Young 6 (P Turgeon), 5:42. 8, St Louis, Hecht 2 (P Turgeon, Young), 19:26. Penalties: Drake, Stl ( double high sticking minor), 8:23.
OVERTIME -- Scoring: None.
Shots on goal:
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St Louis
7 9 11 4--31
Los Angeles 11 7 6 1--25
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Power-play Conversions: Stl - 0 of 7, Los - 4 of 9. Goalies: St Louis, R Turek (25 shots, 21 saves; record: 1-1-1). Los Angeles, Storr (31, 27; record: 2-1-1). A:18,118. Referees: Meier, Shick. Linesmen: Mitton, Bonney.
Game Story
LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Luc Robitaille had a night worth celebrating but the St. Louis Blues crashed the party.
Robitaille became the third player to reach 1,000 points for the Los Angeles Kings but the Blues scored four third-period goals to rally for a 4-4 tie.
Robitaille, who also had an assist, reached the milestone midway through the second period as Los Angeles opened a 3-0 lead. He received a cross-ice pass from Bryan Smolinski and beat goaltender Roman Turek on a slap shot.
The 15-year veteran became the third King to reach that plateau, joining Marcel Dionne (1,307) and Dave Taylor (1,069).
"It's pretty nice," Robitaille said. "People have always treated me nice here. Those kind of things keep happening, you keep playing and they happen."
Zigmund Palffy scored with 3:47 left in the second period to give the Kings a 4-0 lead but the team fell apart thereafter. Los Angeles is winless in its last eight home games against St. Louis (0-6-2).
"We just didn't show the composure we needed to show," Kings coach Andy Murray said. "We're trying to get to that point. We did an awful lot of things right for 40 minutes. I didn't feel comfortable with a 4-0 lead. I felt we had to continue to play."
Palffy and Robitaille are the only Kings with a point in each of the team's first four contests.
Overall, the Blues are 9-1-3 in their last 13 meetings with the Kings.
St. Louis scored three goals in a span of 4:27 to pull within 4-3. Scott Young tallied twice, including one where he took a feed from Pierre Turgeon and wristed a shot past goalie Jamie Storr with 14:18 remaining.
"We were pretty down. We just wanted to go out and win a period," Young said. "That was all that was said. We played terrible. They were all over us. We said `Lets win the third and get something out of this game.'"
It was Young's league-leading sixth goal, one more than Robitaille.
"Once we got two quick ones, we really felt we were in the game," Young added. "It was one of those character-building games. You play with Pierre Turgeon, you're going to get a lot of chances. They have been setting me up like crazy."
"Scotty has got the touch," Blues coach Joel Quenneville said. "He ripped a couple. That line with Turgeon has been dangerous. We've got some character. We never say die. We'll take it."
The Kings were 4-for-8 on the power play, but had just one shot during a four-minute power play in the third period. Blues right wing Dallas Drake took a double minor for high sticking.
Jochen Hecht tied it on a fluke goal with 34 seconds left. He backhanded a pass from Pierre Turgeon that Storr got a piece of, but the puck bounced in off the right post.
In the overtime, Palffy had a breakaway but his backhand sailed just wide of Turek. The Kings were outshot 4-1 in overtime and 31-25 overall.
Smolinski, who added two assists, scored with 14:37 left in the second period for a 2-0 lead. Mathieu Schneider fired a shot that Smolinski tipped and it deflected off Turek's glove.
Schneider scored his second of the season in the opening period.
Pavol Demitra began St Louis' comeback 75 seconds into the third period. He lifted a shot in the slot that deflected off Storr's stick and glove before bouncing in off the right post.
Young scored his first goal of the contest just over two minutes later.