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Roope Hintz and the Dallas Stars got a big win Thursday night in what is becoming a competitive race in the Western Conference.Hintz’s goal 3:19 into overtime to lift the Stars to a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings that vaulted them into the first wild-card spot. They are a point ahead of Minnesota and Colorado Mathieu Perreault Jersey , while Arizona is only two points back.“Everyone in this locker room is aware of where we are at in the standings,” said Dallas forward Blake Comeau, who had two assists. “We’re playing a lot of these teams that we are in the race with coming down the stretch.Not to take anything away from LA, but they are not fighting for a playoff spot. This is definitely a game we had to win.”Hintz scored in a mad scramble in front of the net after Alexander Radulov’s shot bounced off Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick. Dallas trailed 3-2 after two periods, but Radek Faksa tied it at 9:53 of the third when he scored his 12th goal of the season on a rebound of a slap shot by Comeau.“We needed to get pucks deep and get a lot of shots, that way we were able to get rebounds,” said Hintz, who has five goals this season.The Kings have dropped 10 straight — the second-longest losing streak in franchise history — and are at the bottom of the Western Conference. Of those losses Patrik Berglund Jersey Womens , four have been either in overtime or a shootout.“It’s frustrating to lose it in the third. It seems like that’s a common trend right now,” Kings defenseman Sean Walker said.What makes this loss even more frustrating for Los Angeles is that it led 2-0 in the first period and 3-2 going into the third, only to fall short again.Tyler Seguin and Mattias Janmark had Dallas’ other goals, while Ben Lovejoy also had two assists. Anton Khudobin made 27 saves.“It was definitely a gutsy effort. We fell behind 2-0 and I thought from that 6 ½-minute mark on, we played with a lot of passion and purpose,” Dallas coach Jim Montgomery said. “Seguin got us that first goal and we just continued to build from there.”Anze Kopitar scored two goals and had an assist for Los Angeles. Brendan Leipsic added a goal and Quick stopped 29 shots.Los Angeles took a 2-0 lead in the first period. Kopitar opened the scoring at 7:57 when he tapped in Sean Walker’s pass. The Kings extended their lead at 13:28 on the power play as Drew Doughty’s shot from the point deflected off Leipsic, who got his fifth goal of the season.It was Los Angeles’ first power-play goal in six games and broke a string during which it had not converted in its last 15 opportunities.Dallas cut the lead in half 80 seconds later when Seguin took Taylor Fedun’s pass near the crease and beat Quick on his stick side for his team-high 27th of the season. The Stars then tied it at 2 6:14 into the second on Janmark’s backhander in front of the net for his sixth.Los Angeles regained the lead at 11:46 of the second on Kopitar’s team-leading 19th goal of the season. Khudobin made a pad save on Tyler Toffoli’s wrist shot, but Kopitar was able to corral the rebound and put it into the net.“Obviously tonight it was better http://www.officialhockeyjetsshop.com/authentic-adidas-nikolaj-ehlers-jersey , but at the end of the day it’s the wins that come and the two points, but we couldn’t get it done again,” Kopitar said.RARE MISSDallas center Andrew Cogliano missed his first game due to injury in his 12-year career. Cogliano flew back to Dallas to get treatment after suffering a shoulder injury during Tuesday’s loss to Vegas.The only two games Cogliano missed previously were due to a suspension last season when he was with Anaheim. That suspension broke a streak of 830 consecutive games played, which was the fourth-longest in NHL history. The Stars acquired Cogliano in a trade with the Ducks on Jan. 14.NOTES: Dallas LW Jamie Benn and Los Angeles LW Ilya Kovalchuk were both scratched due to upper-body injuries. … This was only the sixth game this season where the Kings have scored two or more goals in the first period. … Seguin has eight goals and 19 points in 21 career games against the Kings.UP NEXTStars: Travel to the St. Louis Blues on Sunday to complete a four-game road trip.Kings: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Ryan Getzlaf and the Anaheim Ducks appear to be turning things around after a two-week slump.The Ducks got their second victory in three games Wednesday night as they defeated the Calgary Flames 3-2. Getzlaf supplied the game-winning goal in the third period 27 seconds after the Flames tied it while they were short-handed.“We’ve been working hard to close out a couple of these games,” said Getzlaf, who scored his second game-winning goal of the season and 49th of his career. “It was pretty exciting. Emotions are high in this room.”The Ducks began the season 5-1-1 but managed only two points in their next seven games before a 3-2 overtime victory against Columbus on Sunday. Anaheim lost to Los Angeles 4-1 on Tuesday, but Getzlaf said it was good to get back on the ice quickly and put that defeat behind them.It wasn’t easy Patrik Laine Jersey , though. Anaheim led 2-0 in the first but Calgary rallied to tie it six minutes into the third when Mark Jankowski stole the puck from Brandon Montour in the neutral zone and shot it just over Ryan Miller’s glove while leading a 2-on-1 rush.The Ducks, though, were quickly able to seize back momentum. Getzlaf corralled a loose puck in front and directed a backhand through Mike Smith’s legs to snap the Flames’ four-game winning streak.“In the end we gutted it out in the third period and found a way,” Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said. “I thought we started the right way. We didn’t want to sit back and worry about what happened last night. It was more about being in the present.”Jakob Silfverberg and Adam Henrique also scored for Anaheim. Miller made 37 saves and tied Andy Moog (372) for 17th on the career wins list.“He’s a goalie I watched growing up,” Miller said. “I used to try to draw his helmet all the time on my street hockey helmet. It’s pretty cool to be playing long enough to win enough games to be mentioned.”Calgary pulled Smith for an extra skater with 2:28 remaining and then was on a power play for the final 74 seconds after Rickard Rakell was called for slashing. But the Flames were never able to get a clean shot on goal despite the two-man advantage.“We had some good looks but I thought we needed to do a little more offensively,” Calgary coach Bill Peters said. “I liked our third period but we ended up chasing the game again here today.”Matthew Tkachuk also scored for Calgary, which has won only once in its last 28 trips to Anaheim. Smith stopped 21 shots.The Ducks got on the board at 8:37 of the first when Silfverberg carried the puck into the Calgary zone and ripped a slap shot for his fifth goal of the season. Henrique gave them a two-goal lead three minutes later when he pounced on a rebound after Smith stopped Josh Manson’s shot from near the blue line.With less than three minutes left in the first, Calgary scored on the power play when Tkachuk redirected Elias Lindholm’s drive past Miller.NOTES: Anaheim D Jacob Larsson got an assist on Silfverberg’s goal for his first NHL point. Larsson was the Ducks’ first-round selection in the 2015 draft. … The Ducks are 3-1 in the second game of back-to-backs … Tkachuk has a point in four straight games Vladimir Sobotka Jersey Womens , with two goals and four assists. … Lindholm’s assist extended his point streak to six games (three goals, six assists). … C Sean Monahan had a six-game point streak snapped (four goals, six assists).UP NEXTFlames: Continue their California swing at Los Angeles on Saturday.Ducks: Host Minnesota on Friday.