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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mathieu Schneider found the perfect remedy
for his aching back -- a game-tying goal.
Schneider connected on a power play with 10:11 left in
regulation, helping Los Angeles to a 2-2 draw Saturday night with
the Detroit Red Wings, extending the Kings' unbeaten streak to six
games (4-0-2).
|  | | Kelly Buchberger got past Chris Chelios to put the Kings on the board in the third period. |
The Red Wings killed off the first six Los Angeles power plays
before Schneider connected during an interference penalty against
Jiri Fischer. He got a cross-ice pass at the right point from
Lubomir Visnovsky and beat goalie Manny Legace high to the glove
side for his fifth goal.
"I saw him shoot it, but someone went in front of me and I lost
it," Legace said. "The guys on the bench said it knuckled and it
dropped a foot."
Schneider, who strained his back Thursday, was treated between
periods. The Kings don't play again until next Thursday.
"It stiffened up on me out there and bothered my hips as well
as my back," the 12-year defenseman said. "But when you go out
there playing, you don't notice it that much. It's when you're
sitting on the bench that you notice it. When you get on the ice,
the adrenaline takes over and it seems to go away."
The Red Wings, who shut out the Kings twice during their
four-game sweep in the opening round of last season's playoffs, had
them blanked again until Kelly Buchberger converted Bob Corkum's
pass in front of the net with 15:58 remaining for his second goal
of the season.
"We expect to win every night," Legace said. "If we don't go
into every game expecting to win with the team we have in this
dressing room, we shouldn't even go on the ice because we have a
lot of experience and talent. Going into the third period with the
lead, we usually don't give up two goals like that."
Martin Lapointe and Sergei Fedorov scored less than 4{ minutes
apart in the second period for the Red Wings, who were 8-0 in games
they led after two periods. They even limited the NHL's
highest-scoring team to three shots in the third period.
"We talked about staying on them and being aggressive, and for
the most part, I think we did," Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios
said. "But you've got to give them credit. Buchberger scored a
really nice goal. We turned the puck over a couple of times, and it
cost us.
"They've got a lot of guys who can score over there and they're
playing well. For a road game, I thought we played very well,
too."
The Red Wings, coming off a 4-2 victory Wednesday night that
ended Phoenix's 12-game unbeaten streak, opened the scoring at 4:31
of the second period with Lapointe's team-leading ninth goal.
Detroit forward Pat Verbeek was serving a hooking penalty when
Fedorov drew a hooking penalty from Visnovsky and a tripping
penalty from Aki Berg in a span of 41 seconds -- leading to
Fedorov's power-play goal at 8:55.
Defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom got the puck to Fedorov in the right
circle on the ensuing 4-on-3 and Fedorov beat Jamie Storr low to
the glove side for his sixth goal and a 2-0 lead.
The Red Wings lost left wing Tomas Holmstrom on his second shift
with a charley horse. He was trying to control a bouncing puck in
the right circle when he collided with Blake's right knee and
crumpled to the ice. Holmstrom was down for a couple of minutes
before being helped to the dressing room with 17:08 left in the
opening period.
Game notes
The attendance was 18,360 -- the first crowd the Kings have
drawn at Staples Center in excess of the 18,118 capacity.
Standing-room-only tickets were made available to luxury suite
holders. ... Kings center Ian Laperriere has zero points in 13
games since his first career hat trick Oct. 13, his only points of
the season. ... The Kings are 68-51-26 against Detroit -- the only
one of the NHL's original six teams they have a winning record
against. ... Red Wings defenseman Larry Murphy who began his
21-year NHL career with the Kings, would have to play into the
2002-03 season to break Gordie Howe's NHL record of 1,767 games.
Murphy is 194 away.
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