Bruins fall to Kings in OT

BOSTON — Anze Kopitar scored at 3:23 of overtime and the Los Angeles Kings rallied to beat the Boston Bruins 43 on Tuesday night.

Kopitar beat Tuukka Rask with a high wrist shot after Jonathan Quick had come up with a huge save at the other end, giving the Kings their fourth win in five games and extending their best stretch of the season (401).

Blake Lizotte had a goal and an assist for the Kings, who couldn’t hold on to leads of 10 and 21 before rallying for a thrilling finish. Down 32 late in the third, the Kings pulled Quick for an extra skater and tied it on Matt Roy’s slap shot with 2:01 left in regulation.

Adrian Kempe also scored for Los Angeles and Quick finished with 37 saves.

Danton Heinen had a goal and assist for Boston, which fell to 151 in its last six and has lost two straight at home. Patrice Bergeron and Brandon Carlo also scored for the Bruins, who lost despite outshooting the Kings 168 in the third. Rask had 23 saves for the Bruins.

Bergeron tied it at 2all 10:44 into the second on a wrist shot from above the right circle, his third goal in five games.

Carlo’s goal 1:24 into the third gave Boston its first

lead at 32. He scored from inside the blue line on a wrist shot that Quick got a piece of but couldn’t control after Heinen dug the puck out of a scrum in the corner.

Heinen was credited with an assist, his second point of the night after snapping a sixgame scoreless streak on a powerplay goal with 59 seconds left in the first to tie it at 1all.

The Bruins were caught with too many men on the ice one minute into the game and Lizotte made them pay with a powerplay goal at 2:17, deflecting a shot by Jeff Carter past Rask to put the Kings up 10.

Kempe sprung free for a shorthanded breakaway and put the Kings up 21 at 2:45 of the second after Quick stopped a onetimer by Marchand.

NOTES: The Bruins opened a fourgame homestand. … Toffoli’s assist on Lizotte’s goal extended his point streak to five games. … The Kings were 061 in their last seven against the Bruins. … Boston entered the game with a 40 record against Pacific Division opponents and was 721 against Western Conference teams.

UP NEXT

Kings: At Columbus on Thursday night.

Bruins: Host the New York Islanders on Thursday night.

Maddie Meyer / Getty Images The Bruins’ Brad Marchand makes a pass as he falls to the ice during the first period against the Kings on Tuesday in Boston.