McGinn's OT goal lifts Avs past Kings
The official game recap Los Angeles Kings vs Colorado Avalanche.Jamie McGinn scored at 2:32 of overtime, leading the Colorado Avalanche to a 1-0 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center on Saturday night.
McGinn one-timed a pass from John Mitchell from the right side on a rush and McGinn's shot went in off a sprawled Jarret Stoll. The rush started when Anze Kopitar's shot was deflected in traffic, and Mitchell carried the puck up ice.
Semyon Varlamov made 19 saves for the shutout in a duel with Ben Scrivens, who made 32 saves and is 4-0-2 in place of injured goalie Jonathan Quick. Colorado has won three straight without leading scorer Matt Duchene.
Scrivens shined on a late third period penalty kill with five saves, notably one on Nathan MacKinnon on a feed from Ryan O'Reilly.
Colorado spent most of the second period in L.A.'s zone, but the Kings didn't give it much to work with, and Scrivens took care of the rest. He stopped all 16 shots in the second, with the best chances by Maxime Talbot on the doorstep and by PA Parenteau from the left side.
The Kings changed their lines after Kyle Clifford was activated from injured reserve and Matt Frattin was scratched with a lower-body injury. Sutter notably broke up the Dustin Brown-Anze Kopitar duo and had Brown play the right side with Clifford and Stoll.
It didn't provide any jumpstart as L.A. failed to capitalize on its first two power plays. Kopitar broke down the right side, but Varlamov got a piece of the shot late in the second period in which Colorado had a 16-7 shot advantage. The Avalanche won 21 of 34 faceoffs through 40 minutes.
The Kings escaped, though, and could have grabbed momentum when John Mitchell took a double-minor high sticking penalty on Willie Mitchell. But L.A. had two shots on goal in the four minutes.
-- by Curtis Zupke for NHL.com --
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24/11/2013 - 07:30
