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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Ziggy Palffy knew he was going to shoot,
but he really didn't have any idea where it would go.
|  | | The Kings' Nelson Emerson, center, sees double trouble in Mighty Ducks Paul Kariya, left, and Vitaly Vishnevski. |
Palffy's 25-foot slap shot looked well-guided, sailing over
Anaheim goalie Guy Hebert's right shoulder 1:04 into overtime and
lifting the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-4 victory over the Mighty
Ducks Monday night.
"When (Mathieu) Schneider gave the puck to me, it was still
bouncing, so I decided to take a shot," Palffy said of his
power-play goal. "It's tough to figure out where you're going to
put it. You just take the shot and see what's going to happen."
Palffy's goal, which came after Anaheim's Niclas Havelid was
sent off for high-sticking Rob Blake in the neutral zone, was his
eighth.
The Kings' win overshadowed a hat trick by Anaheim's Marty
McInnis, who scored his third goal of the game with 3:20 remaining
in regulation to send it into overtime.
The hat trick was the second of McInnis' 10-year NHL career and
helped rally the Ducks from a 4-2 deficit.
He scored the tying goal after teammate Mike Leclerc's shot from
close range bounced off goaltender Jaime Storr. The puck squirted
loose to McInnis at the left of the crease, where he had an open
shot at the net.
"They played a strong game, but we battled hard and we came up
with two points," said Storr, who faced 24 shots. "McInnis is a
good player and he had a good game. There are a lot of times when those opportunities don't come
to you, but tonight things went his way."
"He (McInnis) has to step up to show the younger players and he
sure did tonight," Anaheim coach Craig Hartsburg said.
Said McInnis: "I was crashing into the net, and as you can tell, it worked
out twice tonight."
Hartsburg was pleased with the Ducks' third-period comeback.
"The feeling in the locker room is that we're never out of the
game," he said. "It used to be if (Paul) Kariya and (Teemu)
Selanne weren't going to score, we were out of it. That's no longer
the case because everyone is scoring."
Jozef Stumpel, who ended his holdout with Los Angeles last week,
had a goal and an assist for his first points of the season as the
Kings ended a four-game (0-3-1) winless streak.
Stumpel, who signed a three-year deal worth an estimated $7.5
million last Wednesday, scored in the opening period and assisted
on Tomas Vlasak's goal in the second period of his second game.
Leclerc scored midway through the third period, after Vlasak
gave Los Angeles a two-goal lead with his first NHL goal, at 9:19
of the second.
Glen Murray broke a 2-2 tie with 1:58 left in the opening
period, muscling the Ducks' Matt Cullen off the puck in the slot,
then picking it up and beating Hebert at close range for his third
goal.
McInnis pulled the Ducks even when he redirected a pass from
Kariya over Storr's right shoulder at 11:30 of the first period
while Anaheim held a two-man advantage.
McInnis opened the scoring with a 25-foot slap shot past Storr
3:21 into the game.
Blake, just off the injured list, evened it three minutes
later, beating Hebert with a shot from the top of the left circle.
Stumpel scored on a 25-footer from the slot 2:16 later.
Game notes
McInnis' other three-goal game was for Calgary against
Vancouver on Jan. 24, 1998. The multiple-goal game was the 12th of
his career, the first since Jan. 18, 1999, against Pittsburgh. ...
Blake, the Kings' captain, was back on the ice despite a hairline
fracture in his lumbar vertebrae. ... Los Angeles enforcer Stu
Grimson also returned from the injured list. He was sidelined by a
hand injury sustained during the exhibition season. It took Grimson
only 6:55 to draw his first penalty against his former Anaheim
teammates, a boarding call. ... The Kings are 4-8-2 in the last 14
meetings and are 3-7-4 on the Ducks' ice during that span.
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