William Eklund scored off a feed from Macklin Celebrini to finish a 2-on-1 break at 3:08 of overtime and lift the visiting San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.
Celebrini had a goal and two assists to extend his point streak to 12 games (nine goals, 15 assists) and Yaroslav Askarov made 23 saves for San Jose, which has won five of six.
Alex Turcotte and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist, Joel Edmundson had two assists and Darcy Kuemper made 24 saves for the Kings, who were trying to win three in a row for the first time since mid-November.
Alex Laferriere tipped in a shot by Edmundson to give Los Angeles its first lead of the game at 3-2 with 2:10 left in the third period.
Celebrini drove the net with Askarov pulled for the extra skater and scored with a wrist shot from the right hash marks to tie it 3-3 with 1:07 remaining.
After a scoreless first period, the Sharks were on a power play when Celebrini took a shot from just inside the blue line that Alex Wennberg knocked down with his stick. Wennberg then backhanded a pass to Tyler Toffoli, who scored into the open side of the net for a 1-0 lead at 4:10 of the second.
The Kings tied it 1-1 at 11:34 of the second.
A clearing attempt in front of the San Jose crease by Ryan Reaves hit Fiala in the chest, and the puck went to Turcotte at the side of the net. He spun toward the goal line and scored from a sharp angle.
San Jose was on another power play when Adam Gaudette tipped in a shot by Timothy Liljegren to give the Sharks a 2-1 lead at 5:38 of the third.
The Kings tied it 2-2 at 6:40 when Turcotte kept the puck alive in front of the San Jose crease and got it back to Fiala, who scored his team-leading 16th goal of the season.
Edmundson appeared to give the Kings the lead at 12:09 of the third when the puck went off his glove as he was pushed into Askarov by Zack Ostapchuk. The goal was initially disallowed because Edmundson batted the puck in with his glove, and the call was confirmed after a video review.
–Field Level Media
