The Los Angeles Kings have won their first game of the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs. That first sentence may sound good, but really the game wasn't all rainbows and butterflies for the Kings. The Kings looked like they were killed by suicide after going down 3-0 in the first period, bad coverage and 2 goals by Marek Svatos of the Colorado Avalanche put Los Angeles in come back mode. In the second period the Kings came out strong after being dominated in the first and started getting pucks to the net. Mike Cammelleri scored off a rebound from Alexander Frolov early in the first to make the game 3-1 and give the King's some light at the end of a very dark tunnel. The King's ended up with multiple power plays in the second but didn't connect until King's coach switched Ladislav Nagy with Patrick O' Sullivan on the power play, O' Sullivan took advantage of this to make the game 3-2 with a power play goal. Patrick was not done in the second though. In the third period O' Sullivan netted a short handed goal on a great pass from Alexander Frolov tying the game at 3. Shortly after Patrick's shorhander the Avalanche came back with a power play goal of their own to take the lead again. The King's decide to go all out taking shots left and right from the point and D Brian Boyle tied the game on a shot with plenty of traffic in front of G Jose Theodore. The shooting gallery did not end there; the very next play after Boyle's game tying goal King's C Derrik Armstrong threw the puck harmlessly at the net and it went off of a Colorado defender going 5 hole on Theodore. The King's went up 5-4 and played shut down defense killing a power play with 3 minutes to go and scoring an empty netter with 7 second left to play to make the ultimate score 6-4.
The King now lead the series 1-0. Stay tuned for more.
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