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Tuesday, Jan. 11 10:30pm ET
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Patrick Lalime had everything going for him. He only faced one shot in the first 15½ minutes and didn't have to worry about Luc Robitaille for the final 11½. Joe Juneau scored two first-period power-play goals and Shawn McEachern put Ottawa in front Tuesday night in the Senators' 4-3 victory over the stumbling Los Angeles Kings. "I was happy when I saw that," Lalime said after making 28 saves. "Luc is pretty good, and he's a guy you don't want to have in front of you in the last couple of minutes." McEachern has seven goals in eight games. The teams were skating four-on-four when Kings defenseman Mattias Norstrom ended a 49-game goal-scoring drought with his first since March 20 to trim the lead to 4-3. Robitaille was called for slashing just 56 seconds later by referee Kerry Fraser, who tacked a 10-minute misconduct on the Kings' leading goal-scorer. "You just don't give yourself a chance to win the game when you take that many penalties," Kings coach Andy Murray said. "Ottawa is a great team, but tonight I don't think they needed to play a great game to beat us." The Kings have won only twice in 11 games. Magnus Arvedson also scored to help extend Ottawa's road unbeaten streak to four games. The victory was the Senators' first in Southern California, after going 0-6 against the Kings and 0-3-1 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. "We talked about how Ottawa is one of the least-penalized teams in the league," Murray said. "We had to be physical with them because they have good skill, but we also had to be smart about it and stay out of the box. We gave them the game." Robitaille's 17th goal and 534th of his career moved him past Hall of Famer Frank Mahovlich for 20th place on the NHL's career list. Ottawa scored on its first two second-period shots. The Senators took a 4-2 lead on McEachern's 17th goal and Arvedson's 13th -- which chased Stephane Fiset at 3:26. Kings coach Andy Murray then replaced Fiset with Marcel Cousineau -- who stopped all 12 shots he faced. "We all know we didn't play good in the first period and we got too many penalties," Fiset said. "We were pretty positive about the second period and were still in the game, but that changed right away in the first couple of minutes." The Senators, starting a season-high six-game road trip, outshot Los Angeles 16-1 through the first 15½ minutes. Ottawa was helped by five-straight power plays. "That was unbelievable," Ottawa right wing Andre Roy said. "They might not have deserved some of the penalties, but they were playing pretty chippy and we kept playing disciplined hockey, which helps when you've got eight power plays to their three." Ottawa took a 2-0 lead on Juneau's sixth and seventh goals during cross-checking penalties against Bryan Smolinski and Robitaille. | ALSO SEE NHL Scoreboard Ottawa Clubhouse Los Angeles Clubhouse RECAPS Toronto 3 Boston 2
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