LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The San Jose Sharks saw a much different Los

Angeles Kings team than the one they embarrassed 24 hours earlier.

Sean Avery capitalized on a sloppy mistake by goaltender Evgeni

Nabokov to score the tying goal midway through the third period,

and the Kings rallied to tie the Sharks 4-4 Saturday night.

Jozef Stumpel had a goal and an assist, Ziggy Palffy got his

19th career short-handed goal and Eric Belanger also scored for the

Kings, who extended their home unbeaten streak to seven games

(4-0-3) after getting beaten 5-0 by Nabokov on Friday night at San

Jose.

The Kings and Sharks are tied for first place in the Pacific

Division with 40 points each, although Los Angeles has three more

wins.

"Overall, we've got to be a little disappointed with tonight's

game" said Vincent Damphousse, who scored his second power-play

goal of the game 67 seconds into the third period to give the

Sharks the lead for the last time. "We could have played better

and finished with another win, but three points out of four is

good. We're still tied for first place. But the way we started, we

expected to win."

Patrick Marleau had a goal and an assist for San Jose, Todd

Harvey ended a 45-game goal drought, Brad Stuart had two assists

and Nabokov made 15 of his 29 saves in the first period.

Damphousse put the Sharks ahead 4-3 with a screened wrist shot

from the right circle that bounced off goalie Cristobal Huet's

glove -- but he had to wait several minutes before the video goal

judge could determine that Huet did not pull the puck back before

it crossed the goal line.

"I didn't see it, but I knew it was behind me," Huet said. "I

reached back, and the next thing I knew, it was in my hand. I saw

the replay later, and it didn't look like a goal to me."

The Kings got a huge break when Brad Chartrand flipped the puck

toward the net from the neutral zone and Nabokov tried to glove it

on the fly -- but dropped it. Jon Sim pounced on the opportunity and

slipped a short pass to a wide-open Avery at the right of the

crease for the equalizer with 10:50 left in regulation.

Huet stopped Damphousse on a breakaway with 51 seconds left in

overtime, denying the Sharks' center a hat trick.

"I think that trying to make a move on him with all the snow

and a lot of tracks in front probably wasn't the best thing to do.

I probably should have shot. But he made a good save," Damphousse

said.

Harvey gave the Sharks a 3-2 lead at 9:07 of the third, beating

Huet with a wrist shot from the right circle for his first goal

since last Jan. 18.

"I was telling the guys they can't hold me down forever. I'm

glad I got the monkey off my back at 40 games instead of 80. At

least I didn't go a whole year," Harvey said.

Stumpel tied it at 17:41. Tim Gleason made a no-look backhand

pass in front, where Stumpel beat Nabokov despite the tight

checking of Sharks defenseman Kyle McLaren.

"L.A. came out like a desperate hockey team and they played

more urgent than we did," Sharks defenseman Scott Hannan said.

"We kind of got away from our game plan. We made some sloppy plays

in the offensive and defensive zone, which allowed them to get us

running around.

"We were not getting the puck in deep, not getting the puck out

of our end, and we weren't keeping it along the wall. They're a

team that takes advantage of pucks going through the middle."

The Kings spotted San Jose a 2-0 lead before Palffy got them

going at 2:34 of the second period with his third short-handed goal

this season. He took a lead pass from Stumpel and got a step on

McLaren and Mike Rathje before putting a short backhander between

Nabokov's legs to trigger a three-goal second period.

"They're a great second-period team, and we talked about that

before the game," Damphousse said. "They made some good plays and

kept shooting the puck and crashing the puck. They deserved a point

tonight."Game notes
Only once in their 37-year history have the Kings been shut

out in back-to-back games by the same team -- Dec. 13-15, 1967, by

the Minnesota North Stars during the inaugural season for both

clubs. ... Harvey's first goal last season also came against the

Kings. He finished with three in 76 games. ... Kings LW Kip Brennan

began serving a 10-game suspension for returning to the ice after

being ordered to the dressing room following a scuffle with less

than two minutes left in Friday night's loss. Brennan will forfeit

$24,444 in salary.