DAL@LAK: Hintz buries rebound for OT winner

LOS ANGELES -- Roope Hintz scored at 3:19 of overtime, and the Dallas Stars moved back into a Stanley Cup Playoff spot and extended the Los Angeles Kings' losing streak to 10 with a 4-3 win at Staples Center on Thursday.

Hintz scored with a high backhand after goalie Jonathan Quick could not cover the rebound of a shot by Alexander Radulov.
Tyler Seguin, Mattias Janmark and Radek Faksa scored for the Stars (32-27-5), who lead the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche by one point for the first wild card into the playoffs from the Western Conference. Anton Khudobin made 27 saves for his third straight win.
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"Everyone in this locker room is aware of where we're at in the standings," said Stars forward Blake Comeau, who had two assists. "Not to take anything away from L.A., but they are not fighting for a playoff spot. … This is definitely a game we had to win."
Anze Kopitar had two goals and an assist for the Kings (23-33-8), who are 0-6-4 in the past 10 games, matching the second-longest losing streak in their history (0-10-0 from Feb. 22-March 9, 1984). Brendan Leipsic scored a power-play goal, and Quick made 29 saves.
It was the Stars' third win when trailing entering the third period this season (3-17-1).

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Faksa tied the game 3-3 at 9:53 of the third period. Quick made a pad save on Comeau's shot from the top of the right face-off circle, and the puck went right to Faksa in the slot for a shot into an open net.
"To say that I planned it out perfectly probably was incorrect, but I was trying to shoot far side, and the guys (Faksa and Janmark) did a great job of going to the net," Comeau said.
Jason Dickinson had a chance to win it for Dallas at 15:19 of the third period, but Quick reached across his crease to make a stick save on a shot headed into an open net.
"We thought it was in on the bench," Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. "What a miraculous save, and, again, (one of those) things you have to overcome. Quick, not the first time he's made a miraculous save like that."
Kopitar put the Kings ahead 3-2 at 11:46 of the second period when Hintz backhanded the rebound of Tyler Toffoli's shot to the Kings captain for a shot into an open net. It was the second two-goal game this season for Kopitar, and his third game with three points.
Janmark tied it 2-2 at 6:14 of the second. He got positioning behind defenseman Derek Forbort at the left edge of the crease to collect a deflected shot by Comeau and score on his backhand.
Leipsic put Los Angeles ahead 2-0 at 13:28 of the first period when Drew Doughty's shot went in off him, but Seguin scored his Dallas-leading 27th goal at 14:48 to cut it to 2-1.
Kopitar gave the Kings a 1-0 lead at 7:57.
"We got embarrassed a couple times on the last road trip, and we certainly addressed that," Kopitar said. "I thought tonight the effort was there, but we can't be satisfied with this. Not just the effort, we got to start winning games."

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They said it

"When you have those caliber of players out of the lineup, we need other guys to step up. Huge goal by [Tyler Seguin] to start, and Roope [Hintz] to finish it off in overtime. For different guys to step up, it was a great example of that tonight. We're going to need that moving forward." -- Stars forward Blake Comeau on getting depth scoring with Jamie Benn, Mats Zuccarello and Andrew Cogliano out because of injury
"Obviously, we're as far away from the playoffs as you can be, but we're playing teams that are fighting for it, and that presents a challenge for this team to be the spoilers, I guess, and match up with those teams that are in the hunt." -- Kings center Anze Kopitar

Need to know

Stars defenseman Ben Lovejoy had two assists. … Cogliano (upper body) missed a game because of injury for the first time in his 12-season NHL career. … Toffoli had an assist on Kopitar's first goal to end a seven-game point drought. … Kings forward Ilya Kovalchuk was scratched because of an upper-body injury and is day to day.

What's next

Stars: At the St. Louis Blues on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; FS-MW, FS-SW+, NHL.TV)
Kings: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday (4 p.m. ET; NHLN, FS-W, NBCSCH, NHL.TV)

Hintz scores in OT to lift Stars past Kings