Man, today's Kings/Ducks went the way I honestly did not expect for their first meeting of the regular season. That game was nasty as f. Kings took a five minute major from what it looked like a regular "finishing the check on a player just after the player passed the puck," but then the guy got nailed hard and looked to be out of the game which caused the penalty. Then the Kings were down 2-0, then Kopitar managed to score one after all hope looked lost in the first.
Then the second period came, and the LA Kings insider, Jon Rosen, said it best on Twitter, "I feel we all aged 15 years during that second period." Corey Perry continues to be a dickhead and getting in Quick's area a little too much for comfort and Quick got into his face, both guys and Forbort (a Kings' defensemen) got a penalty in that mess. Then it became 3-1 and then Adrian Kempe manage to keep that light shining at the last minute of the second scoring a goal.
And then the third...... It was nice when Dustin Brown scored and the Kings finally tied it up capitalizing on a Ducks' too many on ice penalty. I felt like, "Oh thank goodness. Hopefully, we can go back to square one and hope for a clean hockey game to finish it off." That did not happen. Kings scored twice and both goals were disallowed. One because of an offside and the other because the goalie's mask fell off after taking a shot to the mask before the puck went in the net and then he was out and Ryan Miller (I didn't even know he was with the Ducks now) was in.
Thankfully, Kings got found a great position on a two on one in OT and got it done. I feel like this game was the best of times for the Kings and the worst of times where it felt like they got the bad end of the ref calls for the most part of the game. I need to catch my breath now.