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winner. is he going out nearly on top of his game? >> absolutely. some of the save in this game has been difficult to make. he's made them look easy. kings looking to go up 2-0. brodeur making a great save. here's the glove land. there's a shot by kings. stepping in trying to fire around the feet. he snares another one. traffic in front. no problem for brodeur. kopitar, the guy who beat him in o.t. in game one, chance to give the kings the lead again. brodeur closes the doors. he's making the saves. >> the kings, 9-0 on the road in the playoffs. road teams have won 12 of the last 15 overtime games in the finals. overtime coming up next. [ male announcer ] every day, the world gets more complex. and this is what inspires us to create new technology.
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the long change again. because this is the fourth period of this game. and pierre, i'm just curious what you think things are like down there and how you think things were in the locker room between periods. >> pierre: >> these teams are extremely vocal. they're challenging each other. on the new jersey bench, subdued. quite confidence on the devils bench. >> >> mike: eddie, what do you think went on in the intermission locker room? >> eddie: i think a lot of reminders. long changes in the overtime. somebody's going to be a hero tonight when they talk about the stanley cup final. >> mike: doughty makes the first play. zidlicky chased off. but he bounces away. kopitar got it. fired by henrique. punched on to zubrus.
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handed on to elias. zubrus brings it back in and drops it around. after it is henrique. elias skies one in front that popped up in the air. it settled down by kopitar. it's turned over to the devils again. elias sparring with it. kicked out in front where scuderi can retrieve and give it behind to doughty. led one on that kopitar can give one to williams. lobs it back out. kopitar gains the zone. drons it over for a shot. it goes out of play. be. >> pierre: good play by the devils through the middle of the ice. get the puck below the goal line. so good the prior two rounds. a good stick by anze kopitar denying the chance on jonathan quick. >> eddie: that puck almost went off of kopitar's shoulder though. what a stick presence by anze kopitar. elias has had a really strong game too for new jersey.
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>> pierre: good bounceback game. he was quiet in game one. >> mike: this one must be played at center by willie mitchell. brought ahead by zajac to parise to kovalchuk. that one deflected up high. looking around is quick. kovalchuk with it again. chased off. spiked out to center by penner. popped right back along and it kicked off of andy greene. skidded across where it was reached by kovalchuk. trouble for fayne. a shot, save brodeur. rebound glove down by jeff carter. picked up by kovalchuk now. richards, save made by brodeur! >> pierre: add this one to the packaging that mike milbury showed in that overtime intermission. marty brodeur has cop up with some big stops when this game was in doubt. and then here in overtime, one on penner and that one on mike richards. >> eddie: bad luck for fayne.
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kovalchuk was a terrible giveaway ped if you're going to go through the middle of the ice, it better be high and hard through the middle of the ice. nothing soft in the middle, nothing along the ice. >> eddie: defensemen have to be so aware. the building is getting warmer. >> mike: this one chopped along now, can be played by king and ten given back up the boards now. turning with it is lewis. it's take en away by gionta. martinez chopped out to center. steered on back and green is able to assert himself ahead with the pass that comes on to king. here's king throwing one that was around behind. back up the boards. pudged on by matt greene. blocked off by aboutern yea and carter is there, too. meanwhi meanwhile, harrold goes back for that one. roughed up a bit. coming by is gionta. smeared down on the play by king. booming his way in was carter. scrappy play and eventually it
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kicks on back to center ice. shoved grass to greene again. it goes over to the harroldside. but it's cut off there. lifted back along by williams, taken by kopitar. dustin brown and the cycle can't get it there. doughty moves in. shot, oh, and brodeur looking behind. it ricocheted wide and another try. scuderi is pulled down and right back ahead with it protecting to the outside is bernier. bernier wanted to lift one across. it bounced free. now things are really weird. handed on back now to brown. led onto the back now to scuderi. scuderi shoves one that went to the corner. brown screened out by the referee. elias brings it back ahead. motors back in. shot is deflected wide. chopped up the half-court. rescued by josefson. oh, let loose in front. and can they play back up to il williams? williams able to ol it back in.
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somebody check, is there a full moon? pass salvador and on up. a diving play by zubrus. the puck goes all the way back. it is mitchell run into by henrique. off carter's stick to center. greene could not take it there. followed up by carter on to richards. he couldn't get it. fayne banking it behind. kovalchuk off his stick. played by carter back to mitchell. floated on to penner and penner is able to spin one that handcuffed richards. poked on by andy greene. kovalchuk backhands 0 have. voynov cranks it right back in again. the devils touched ahead. flexed along by zajac. played back along for fraser and fayne on him. it is sent on back to the point where it goes across to greene. rebound picked up off the boards neatly. worked on by know land and his shot is blocked. brodeur grabs it out of the air!
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>> pierre: we see jordan nolan use his size and speed to his advantage. he takes the shot right between the legs of andy greene and marty brodeur with the stop. >> eddie: how about the devils with a quality opportunity. zidlicky to the stick, the waiting stick of dainius zubrus. he just can't get it to go. >> pierre: nice play there by drew drew doughty. the puck goes right under marty brodeur. back out the other side. what a play by doughty to open up ha lane. >> mike: the puck is just lying there. eventually it squirts free. comes out in front. a shot sealed up by brodeur and he covers. >> pierre: terrific opportunity there. dwight king takes this puck on his backhand. watch him spin around to get it to his forehand. watch brodeur. he goes down.
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an extra step back, there's a little bit of room to the far side. right idea all the way around by king. another good stop by brodeur. >> mike: meteorologist report it as a 97% full moon. i buy it. offensive zone face-off for the kings now here in o.t. zidlicky teps by. floated on out to center. left behind by mitchell and pushed back in. voynov about take the tap from quick. his pass gets across. richards is able to play it back safely there and rifled on across for willie mitchell. richards flips one that went wide and hopped off the glass. zidlicky. into traffic. zach parise chased off by penner but able to pump it to center. voynov on across to mitchell now. 4:45 played in the first sudden death overtime here. game twork the kings won the first in overtime on a breakaway goal by anze kopitar.
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pumped around behind. it's taken by scuderi. ripped it back up the boards. it can be taken in stride by williams. he motors on to kopitar. back for williams again. chased off. puck played by williams to doughty. doughty a shot, the closed leg block that came from gionta. carter moves up with berm yea. he played it back in. behind to take it is scuderi. runoff by bernier. puck played by kopitar. marched ahead by brown. moves back in with williams. brown shouldered byine greene. meanwhile, it's taken along by carter. ripped out and all the way back down. no icing on this play. martinez there. run into by zubrus and around it comes for doughty. drew doughty, gold medal winning canadian olympian, sent that one long. marched back up by elias. moves in and fires. oh, and doing the splits on that. >> pierre: there was some room
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there will. >> mike: jabbed on by zubrus. punched but into traffic. it came right fourth henrique. then it's played by zubrus. another block in front of the net by stoll. taken on by henrique to the back. harrold the shot. that one deflected wide. he did not know where that one was coming from because of the screen in front. ripped across for matt greene. greene banks it out safely to center, off of harrold and back down and there is no icing. both teams can make a fire wagon change. long pass ahead for ponikarovsky. directs it back in again. mitchell hunted down by clarkson. voynov playing it back ahead. ricocheted off richardson. swept along and a shot by josefson is deflected over the net to the glass! it is nolan. then josefson. clarkson tried to work the point. ponikarovsky goes down. close quarters. it's kept not alive. it is an offside call in the neutralize face-off to result.
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>> pierre: patrik elias. look how far out jonathan quick is. look the room over the shoulder. goaltender comes that far out in order to cut down the angle. >> eddie: the devils with their aggressive fore-check. patrik elias down low on jonathan quick. a quality scoring opportunity. >> mike: richards and joseph son for the draw. salvador cranks it route back in off the stick of scuderi. he played it on for doughty. had to hurry it back up the boards. moving back in with penner. richards sent one off. scooped along by zidlicky. led back across for salvador. he fired it back around again. yef carter to play it there. banked it around behind and doughty with an opening. penner, but has to swagger away and get help from scuderi to play it out. andy greene feathered back. carried back by kovalchuk.
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kovalchuk. that one blocked away. parise with it. kovalchuk has a man at the point. let's it go. deflected to the glass by zajac. centering pass, that one came back. it's played out by williams and handed out to mike richards. richards rifled one that's blocked to the corner by brodeur. williams played it along. fayne held him off. zajac around behind. it's taken by greene. parise nearby. lofted one deflected off the stick of kovalchuk. everybody seems to be okay. >> pierre: the majority of good solid opportunities have been in favor of the new jersey devils. what a shot block there by robert scuderi on ilya kovalchuk. >> eddie: the devils moving the puck well. a little deflection changes direction off of travis zajac up and over the net. >> pierre: parise throws that puck back hoping it might bounce off of somebody or jonathan quick. >> mike: zubrus fired it back
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in. floated down. elias rifled one across but came on back to zidlicky. sent further the same way and taken by henrique. the shot is blocked away by quick. salvador threw one in front. that one gets backhanded away by mitchell. brown with a heavy hit on zidlicky. zubrus working. fed one on to henrique. stick handles to the corner. gave it back to zidlicky. calmly able to work it around. one in front across the net. flagged down by kopitar and played back ahead. we get a stoppage of play. >> eddie: off of jonathan quick. >> mike: thank you, pierre. >> pierre: second time tonight. back in the third period, it was patrik elias. this time it was dainius zubrus that was falling over, similar type of play and the mask comes off jonathan quick.
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look at the flexibility and the utility of jonathan quick from one post to the other again. when in doubt, eshe goes down really low taking away the bottom of the net. >> mike: nice win again by stoll for the kings. jabbed on and can be taken. unable to escape was kovalchuk as he was wedged off. roll vol goes back for this. trevor lewis the fore-checker for the kings. got it on now to harrold. haired popped one that flew between the point men. can be played by greene safely across to scuderi. dwight king sees this one advanced ahead. lewis trying to get in. punched away from stoll. racing for it parise. but getting there is scuderi. back across for matt greene. jabbed one ead. down to the ice went richardson. it's carried back ahead by stoll but he couldn't control enough to get by. then it's sent by zajac back in
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where harrold waits. more changes for both teams. peter harrold delays and passed one on that's directed back in by gionta. rifled along for scuderi. challenged by gionta. he deflects it behind. it is played safely back by nolan now. these are buzz bombers on the fore-check. both teams have guys that can do this. this line for the devils is hemming the kings up right now. played by doughty. shook it along for nolan. it's scuderi. scuderi able to play it back along. it's taken by richardson who circled. he spun it across. doughty able to step by one, met by fayne. fayne comes by. roughed up by doughty. andy greene. lobbed one on. gionta made the save. all the way around it comes to penner. left it behind. clarkson ahead.
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josefson trying to get there. able to punch it by voynov. voynov turned it along for mitchell. he's rubbed out on the play. right back ahead, it comes to center, and it's sent back in once more where quick can set it up behind for mitchell. now voynov. then jeff carter. led one on for penner. shouldered by zidlicky. the puck goes all the way back down. salvador to take it there. double-teamed but able to be thread it through to clarkson. clark-on-is able to move it ahead. from the checkered line in, almost put into the devils bench this time. battled for by two players a side. josefson up with it. led it back to the point. volchenkov with the shot. deflected off the skate. worked on further. matt greene takes his man down. it's gloved down by volchenkov but pulled free by kopitar. carried on now by penner and lobbed back to the corner. another change in lines for the kings as vol sol nearly gave it
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up to kopitar. it's sent on to the back for a floater. williams tries to jam it to the front of the net and can't. dustin brown to the outside. hawked by zubrus. onto the back comes scuderi. williams a shot, save brodeur. played by harrold. off the stick of henrique and out of play and a face-off in the los angeles kings offensive end of the ice. >> pierre: that's the same pressure there by the los angeles kings here in overtime. good play down low. williams, kopitar, brown and scuderi made a real good play keep the play alive at the blue line. >> mike: they are scraping the ice. that will take a little time. how about a recap. >> pierre: to the first period, drew doughty his third of the playoff. 1-0 lead. in the third period, shot redirected by ryan carter, his fifth. how about the back if regulation in the third period, the opportunity for ilya kovalchuk
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off the post. kovalchuk again side to side. good stop there by jonathan quick. richards on brodeur. the glove save. doughty with a nice little power move to bring the puck in the middle of the ice. between the legs of andy greene and a stop by marty brodeur. >> mike: just sensational. these two guys have been stupendous. examples you've just seen. magnificent goaltending. 1-1 again as it was in game one going foo overtime. >> eddie: talking a lot on their bench. scuderi, trevor lewis, a lot of talking on the los angeles kings side of things. not a lot of talking on the devils. they seem really calm, cool and collected. probably easier to say it than to do it. but they seem very, very comfortable.
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>> pierre: the way they. ed here in overtime, you've got to think for them, they're feeling it's just a matter of time with the four or five quality chances that they've had in overtime. have a shust line in regulation, probably in the high 30 seconds. now you get to the overtime, you're looking in the high 20 seconds. get on, get off, up and down and change. >> mike: the two best guys in face-off just went at it in stoll and zajac. there be an icing touchup by scuderi and right back they'll come for another one. >> pierre: top line coming for l.a. >> mike: all time kopitar with a couple, penner with one, sykora three. zajac two, ponikarovsky and salvador one each.
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off the tie up. reached by williams. williams has a man in front. brown tried to force it there. could not get it by. kovalchuk up with it. sent it off parise's stick. can be played by greene. rifled to parise and directed back in. dugout by williams. sent back to center where fayne slides it over for andy greene. right back ahead to kovalchuk. he's got parise moving. shuffled away by quick. dug out by zajac and parise. but then advanced by kopitar onto the stick of williams. back across to dustin brown. crunched by zidlicky. he gets by. zidlicky tried to stick-check it away. meanwhile, it can be played by williams. quite a dual with bryce salvador. onto the point where join has to back off. it is back in again. voynov guided it around behind. willie mitchell stepped to that one. reversed it off elias's stick
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blade but to voynov. voynov able to rip one ahead that goes back down. and this will be an icing against the kings. >> pierre: long shift production brown and also for justin williams right now. >> eddie: if you're darryl sutter, you've got to think about using that time-out. >> pierre: no question. >> eddie: looks like he's going to leave them out there. >> mike: chased out is williams. in comes richards. opposite henrique. one across. tap back by zubrus. andy greene with it. that one kicked aside. zubrus helps around behind by richards. down to the ice elias. meanwhile on the half-court, they burrow in further. it's taken around further by willie mitchell. mitchell for the kings with a pass that shanked right back in
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again. it's shoved on back, nearly handcuffing voynov but brought on by richards. sent it back to penner. swaggers free. right to andy greene. and it started to head in a three-on-two if the devils could have controlled but could not brought back on by carter. here's carter throwing one. sliding play across. brodeur saw it skitter by. shoots. he score s scls! jack carter has ended the game. a second successive overtime win for the kings!
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>> pierre: here's jeff carter. i want everybody of watch the speed to the outside but he never gives up on this play after the initial opportunity. he goes right around andy greene. now he's going to try to get this puck to the front of the net. he stays with it. he finds his puck. he circles the wagons. he shoots, skates to the right and marty brodeur down. where does he shoot this puck, doc? stickside right over about six to eight inches over the right skate of marty brodeur. perfectly placed shot for jeff carter. but the ability to stay with that puck after the initial play, but the speed of carter to the outside to cause separation to create that chance. look at all the bodies in front of the net. penner is there looking for a rebound. he ends up going in between stephen gionta and marty brodeur. and the reaction from the bench, the l.a. kings up two games to
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none going home on monday night for game three. >> mike: pierre with the hero of the game. >> thanks very much, doc. expain your little piece of overtime magic that we just witnessed. >> it was a great play by the "d". going to get it up for me. i just took it wide. came around the net. found the loose puck and tried to get out of the way of the stick. >> jeff, that's not the first time you guys are shot low stickside on marty brodeur. is that part of your plan? >> i can't tell you too much. he might be watching us. we definitely talked about it, world class goalie and have to do our homework to beat him. >> when you were with the flyers, you wen to the stanley cup finals. now you're two games away. how do you control your emotions going into game number three in los angeles? >> well, we have to put this behind us. we'll enjoy it tonight. we accomplished what we came here to do. and go back to work.
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>> thanks for your time. we'll see you for game three. doc in. >> the kings are the 12th team to win the first two games on the road, nine of the prior 11 won the stanley cup. coming up next, except on the west coast, it's your local news followed by saturday night live" with host zooey deschanel. monday the game moves to los angeles. our telecast moves over to nbcsn. live coverage begins with nhl live at 7:307 eastern/4:30 pack. part of "nbc sports" championship season. carter from penner and greene. 13:42 of the first overtime and the kings are up 2-0 in the series. right now on the "nbc sports" network, our post-game coverage continues. for tommy hanrahan, eddie olc k
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