Eurolanche

Avs beat Kings to end home skid

Matt Duchene, with his first goal in seven games and second of the season, scored from the left circle at 1:52 of the third period to give the Avalanche a 3-2 lead. Dropped to the fourth line for one game a week ago, Duchene used Kings defenseman Drew Doughty as a screen and wired a shot that sailed behind goalie Jonathan Quick.

The Avalanche went on a power play with 3:41 remaining in the period when Dustin Brown went off for tripping Ryan O'Reilly but couldn't convert for an insurance goal.

The Avalanche had to kill off a 6-on-4 disadvantage for the final 45.2 seconds after Daniel Winnik tripped Mike Richards with Quick off the ice for the extra skater.

Anze Kopitar's goal during a two-man advantage at 18:44 of the second period tied the game 2-2 for the Kings. Kopitar pounded a rebound behind goalie Semyon Varlamov after a shot by Brown.

Avalanche defensemen Shane O'Brien and Jan Hejda were in the penalty box at the time. O'Brien was penalized for slashing Brown and Hejda went off 36 seconds later for holding Dustin Penner behind the Colorado net.

The Avalanche's Chuck Kobasew and Kings' Scott Parse traded goals 27 seconds apart in the first period during the same Los Angeles power play.

Kobasew scored while shorthanded at 6:55. Rookie Gabriel Landeskog fed Kobasew, who skated behind the Kings' net, came out on the left side and slipped the puck between the near post and Quck.

Parse tied the game at 7:22 after Jarret Stoll fired a shot off the goal post. The puck bounced in the air and Parse batted it past Varlamov for a power-play goal.

The Avalanche, who totaled two goals in its first three home games, took a 2-1 lead at 9:04 of the second period on Milan Hejduk's power-play goal with Parse off for interference. The Avalanche caught a break on the play when David Jones fired the puck off the boards. The puck bounced in front, and Hejduk poked it into an open net.

Despite playing Saturday night against Phoenix, the Kings outshot the Avalanche 14-5 in the second period for a 25-9 advantage through 40 minutes.

-by Rick Sadowski for NHL.com-