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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scott Young and the St. Louis Blues were
silent through the first two periods.
|  | | The Blues' Lubos Bartecko eyes the loose puck while Mattias Norstrom and goalie Jamie Storr provide interference. |
Then the Blues roared to life in the third Wednesday night, with
Young leading a four-goal charge that lifted St. Louis into a 4-4
tie with the Los Angeles Kings.
The Kings built a 4-0 lead in the second period, doing all their
scoring on power plays.
"That wasn't your average hockey tie, the way we came back,"
said Young, who had two goals and an assist to lead the Blues. "It
feels more like a win."
Jochen Hecht tied it at 4 when he scored with 34 seconds
remaining in regulation, after the Blues pulled their goaltender
for an extra attacker.
Pierre Turgeon assisted on three of the Blues' goals, including
the game-tying score.
Turgeon flipped the puck across the crease to Hecht, who poked
it in past the Kings' Jamie Storr for his second goal of the
season.
The only serious scoring threat in the overtime came when Los
Angeles' Bryan Smolinski got a breakaway, but his shot was off
target.
In the third period, Young scored his goals 2:13 apart after
Pavol Demitra finally put St. Louis on the board 1:15 into the
period.
Young beat Storr 3:29 into the period to make it 4-2, then added
his sixth goal shortly afterward as St. Louis cut the deficit to
one goal.
Young also assisted on the tying goal.
"Once we scored our first goal, it really helped us get fired
up," he said. "We kind of had them (the Kings) back on their
heels."
St. Louis coach Joel Quenneville said Young, who has scored
six goals in just four games, obviously is on a roll.
"He's at the top of his game. I haven't seen him better,"
Quenneville said. "We'd like to see this for a long time."
Los Angeles coach Andy Murray said his team just "blew it" in
the third period.
"We didn't show the composure we needed to show," Murray said.
"I didn't feel comfortable with a 4-0 lead. I felt we had to
continue to play."
Mathieu Schneider and Smolinski each had a goal and two assists
for the Kings, who have not beaten the Blues in Los Angeles since
Jan. 11, 1997, and have won just one of their last 11 meetings.
Luc Robitaille had a goal and an assist to become the third
player to score 1,000 career points for the Kings.
Robitaille, who has five goals and four assists in Los Angeles'
four games this season, joined the Kings' Marcel Dionne, who had
1,307 career points for Los Angeles, and Dave Taylor, who had
1,069.
Ziggy Palffy added a goal and an assist for Los Angeles.
Schneider opened the scoring with 2:10 left in the first period,
as Smolinski won a faceoff in the right circle and fed the puck
across the middle to him.
The Kings then erupted for three goals in the second. Smolinski
scored his first goal 5:23 into the period, then Robitaille got his
fifth of the season seven minutes later.
Palffy's goal gave the Kings a four-goal pad with 3:47 remaining
in the period, but it wasn't enough for Los Angeles.
Storr faced 31 shots, and the Blues' Roman Turek faced 25.
In the first period, Hecht appeared to score for St. Louis when
he skated from behind the Kings' goal and wristed a shot past
Storr.
But Demitra was called for interference on the play so the goal
didn't count.
Game notes
The Kings are undefeated in their last seven home openers,
going 4-0-3. ... Blues center Michael Handzus remained in St. Louis
with a torn stomach muscle. ... Kings goaltender Stephane Fiset,
projected as the starter until injuring his left knee on Sept. 22,
is expected to miss at least the first month of the season. Fiset,
out five weeks last season with a bone bruise in his right hand, is
listed as week-to-week.
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 Bryan Smolinski puts the puck past Jamie Storr.
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Pavol Demitra puts St. Louis on the board.
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Jochen Hecht ties the game at 4.
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Luc Robitaille scores LA's third power-play goal of the game.
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Mathieu Schneider scores the quick goal off the face off.
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