Kings rally to beat Rangers in overtime at Garden

Tanner Pearson’s goal with 1:50 left in overtime powered Los Angeles past NY.

Marian Gaborik put the Kings up 2-0 in the first period when his slapshot snuck past Rannat for the goal.

Kopitar opened the scoring with his 14th of the season 33 seconds into the game with a snap shot from the slot, and Gaborik pushed the lead to 2-0 with his 12th of the season on the power play at 11:26. Raanta, who had 12 previous appearances but one start in 23 games, had no chance on Kopitar’s second goal of the game that made it 3-3 after two periods.

Kevin Hayes and Mats Zuccarello each finished with a goal and an assist for NY, which lost for the first time since February 2.

Goaltender Jonathan Quick, who didn’t dress against the Rangers or New York Islanders on Thursday, remains day-to-day with an undisclosed injury. Penalties_Martinez, LA (delay of game), 13:30.

The Kings would apply endless pressure in the Rangers zone during the latter stages of the third period and with 29.7 seconds remaining Los Angeles would strike again.

Stepan did all of his damage in the second frame.

With some of their other stars missing due to injury, the Rangers have gotten extra boost from King Henrik and they are hoping that their puck stopper has another big night as they face the Kings. Lucic pounced on a turnover caused by Dustin Brown then quickly transitioned with Kopitar to connect to knot the score 3-3. Anze Kopitar recorded a hat trick for Pacific Division-leading Los Angeles, which has won three of its last five. The Kings move to 8-1 on the year in overtime games.

It was reminiscent of the game against Minnesota eight days earlier, when Staal was responsible for the first Wild goal and in the box for the second. They didn’t get a lot of looks, but they play a heavy, tight game. “Bottom line for us we grinded it out and got the two points”.

“On Tuesday, Rangers center Derick Brassard had called the next quartet of games, including matches against the Penguins, Kings, Flyers and Blackhawks, “a turning point in our season.”. The Rangers scored twice to take a 3-2 lead in the second, with goals from Derek Stepan, coming off the left wall and shooting five-hole at 9:21, and Zuccarello, a backhander that bounced off Vinny Lecavalier’s leg 37 seconds later.

If the Rangers’ streak is going to stretch some more, their long-struggling penalty kill (ranked 25th in the league) will need to carry the momentum of its two successful opportunities against Pittsburgh, going up against the Kings’ third-ranked power play. “The diminutive 5′ 7″ Norwegian fought through and skated around 6′ 4” Kings defenseman Brayden McNabb sliding a pass across the goal mouth to Kevin Hayes who snuck in the blind of Dubaj burying Zuccarello’s pass in the net. Dan Girardi became the fifth defenseman and the 11th player overall to play in 700 games for the Rangers….