Overview
- The Los Angeles Kings beat the Ottawa Senators 6-5 in overtime after Quinton Byfield scored at 3:37 of overtime following a third-period rally by Ottawa on Thursday night.
- Drew Doughty set up the OT winner and finished with three assists while Artemi Panarin had a goal and an assist as the Kings scored five times in the first two periods.
- Ottawa erased a 5-1 deficit with four unanswered third-period goals driven by Dylan Cozens’s two goals and an assist, Drake Batherson’s goal and Tim Stützle’s three assists to force overtime.
- The game featured a midgame goalie change for Ottawa (Jonas Johansson to Samuel Ersson), Brandt Clarke exiting with an upper-body injury, and Hayden Hodgson’s ejection for boarding that led to a scheduled NHL Department of Player Safety hearing.
- The victory gives Los Angeles 10 points at 4-6-2, starts a seven-game homestand, and signals early payoff for coach Peter Laviolette’s focus on three-on-three work after last season’s league-high overtime losses.