Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Michael Peca netted a pair of goals, including the game-winner late in the third period, as Columbus topped Los Angeles, 4-3, at the Staples Center.
Sergei Fedorov and Joakim Lindstrom each had a goal and an assist for the Blue Jackets, who have won three of four. Jan Hejda and Jared Boll each recorded two assists and Fredrik Norrena stopped 30 shots in the victory.
"It was a back-and-forth game," said Fedorov. "This was an offensive players' wish. Everybody was getting to the net."
Patrick O'Sullivan had a goal and an assist for the Kings, who had a three- game winning streak halted. Brian Willsie and Dustin Brown also lit the lamp, while Jason LaBarbera was dealt the loss between the pipes, yielding one goal on 16 shots after Jean-Sebastien Aubin was pulled in the second period. Aubin surrendered three goals on just 12 shots faced in the contest.
"We played extremely well but we got behind the eight ball tonight," said Kings head coach Marc Crawford. "We generated chances that should have given us a better outcome, but they didn't."
With the Jackets trailing by a goal heading to the third, O'Sullivan tied it at the 8:01 mark when he knocked a puck out of midair in front of the net and deflected it over the shoulder of Norrena.
Peca then netted the game-winner with 5:18 left when he wristed a shot from the left faceoff dot that sailed past LaBarbera to the far side. The tally was set up nicely by Jason Chimera, who capitalized on a Kings turnover along the endboards before digging the puck free and dishing to the wide-open Peca.
Columbus made it 1-0 at 12:21 of the first period when Fedorov ripped a shot from the high slot that got past Aubin's left skate.
The Kings tied it just 13 seconds into the middle stanza, as Rob Blake took the puck along the right boards and sent a shot toward the net that was deflected home by Willsie.
Lindstrom put the Jackets back on top a little more than a minute later when he fluttered a shot over Aubin's left shoulder from in close. The puck then deflected off the underside of the crossbar and dropped into the back of the net.
The back-and-forth continued as the Kings made it 2-2 when O'Sullivan charged across the mid-slot and put a backhander on net that somehow got through the five-hole of Norrena. That goal was later credited to Brown on the deflection.
Peca finished the outburst with 6:05 remaining in the stanza, notching just his third of the year to make it a 3-3 game.
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