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Kings score four in the third to beat Penguins, 5-2

By Helene Elliott
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There’s only one word for the third period of the Kings-Penguins game at Staples Center:

Wow.

Trailing by a goal and undaunted after Anze Kopitar hit the post in the first four minutes, the Kings wore down the Penguins to score four times. Kopitar tied it at 6:17, Jarret Stoll put them ahead at 12:09 after Dustin Brown intercepted a bad clearing pass by Marc-Andre Fleury, Michal Handzus made it 4-2 at 12:32 and Brown applied the finishing touch at 17:30.

The Kings extended their roll to 6-0-2 and ended the Penguins’ streak of winning their first seven road games of the season.

Wow.

More later at www.latimes.com/sports

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-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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