Sean O’Donnell’s postgame thoughts… O’DONNELL: “It’s a good shot in the arm for us. That’s a real good team over there. They don’t give you a whole lot, and to battle back from 2-1, and then 3-2 — especially after we did tie it up at the end of the second and had some momentum, [...]

Ryan Smyth’s postgame thoughts… (on the win…) SMYTH: “The key is playing a full 60 minutes. We did that. Even when they capitalized and they scored, we didn’t quit. We didn’t feel let down or anything. We didn’t feel sorry for ourselves. We came at them and played relentless. It was a battle. They’re a [...]

Drew Doughty’s postgame thoughts… (on the win…) DOUGHTY: “That was huge. I thought we played a really good game, the full 60 minutes and overtime, and then obviously the shootout was fantastic as well. That’s the thing we’ve got to be doing every night. We’ve got to be playing like that. We’ve got to be [...]

Shootout results… Kings: Kopitar, backhand GOAL Buffalo: Stafford, wrist GOAL Kings: Johnson, save. Buffalo: Pominville, save. Kings: Brown, backhand GOAL Buffalo: Connolly, save More from the locker room ASAP…

By getting at least one point tonight, the Kings will keep their hold on a playoff spot for another day… Based on Calgary’s loss to Chicago, the Kings have also moved into seventh place. [edit, after initial misread of games played...]

The Kings tied the game, 9:03 into the third period, with a goal that held up under video review. Dustin Brown dropped a pass to Jarret Stoll at the top of the right circle. Stoll sent the puck to the front of the net and Ryan Smyth, skating in, had the puck deflect off his [...]

Buffalo took the lead on another early-period goal, 1:07 into the second period. Jason Pominville, with the puck in the left corner, centered the puck, and it went through to the right corner. Rob Scuderi and Jochen Hecht battled in front of the Kings’ net and obstructed Quick a bit, and Craig Rivet shot and [...]

How big was that tying goal for the Kings? Only four teams in the NHL have a perfect record this season when leading after two periods. One is the Kings, at 18-0-0. Another? The Sabres, at 19-0-0.

The Kings tied the game with 55 seconds remaining in the second period. Sean O’Donnell shot from just inside the blue line and the puck beat Miller, with Michal Handzus running traffic right in front of Miller.

The Kings appeared to have tied the game with a power-play goal with 6:24 remaining in the second period, but after a video review, the goal was disallowed. Officials said it was pushed into the net off the glove of Oscar Moller.

Buffalo took the lead with a power-play goal 9:47 into the second period. Thomas Vanek, in front of the Kings’ net, knocked Drew Doughty to the ice, then took a centering pass from Tim Connolly and beat Quick.

The Kings’ lead lasted only 22 seconds into the second period. Clarke MacArthur carried the puck up the left side of the Kings’ zone, and his centering pass was deflected by Sean O’Donnell and ended up in the Kings’ net to tie the game. [edited to correct]

Shots were 10-10 in the first period. In even-strength situations, the Kings had lines of: Richardson-Kopitar-Simmonds Smyth-Stoll-Brown Frolov-Handzus-Parse Purcell-Moller-Segal

The Kings had a flurry of chances in the first half of the period, including a shorthanded breakaway by Brad Richardson, but couldn’t score. They broke through with 7:32 left in the period, as a new-look line of Richardson, Anze Kopitar and Wayne Simmonds contributed to a goal. Kopitar won an offensive-zone faceoff and Simmonds [...]

Raitis Ivanans and Randy Jones are the Kings’ healthy scratches tonight, with Matt Greene and Teddy Purcell returning to the lineup.

A Kings spokesman said Ryan Smyth made it back to L.A., and Staples Center, from his weather-delayed trip to Calgary. To catch up on the rest of today’s news and notes, please check out my LAKings.com notebook… Kings notebook (Jan. 21)

By any measure, this hasn’t been a good homestand for the Kings. They take a 2-4 record into tonight’s finale of the season-long, seven-game homestand before they head out for a five-game road trip, their longest remaining trip of the season. How big are a couple games? If the Kings had gone 4-2 in the [...]

Davis Drewiske, out since Jan. 4 with a shoulder injury, continues to get closer to a return. Drewiske is still skating in practice with a red (non-playing) jersey, but Terry Murray said today that Drewiske is “ahead of schedule” in his rehab. Murray declined to estimate when Drewiske might return, but said it was possible [...]

Here’s what Terry Murray said today about returning Teddy Purcell to the Kings’ lineup… MURRAY: “Yeah, going to put him in. We talked about that yesterday, among the three of us (coaches), for quite a while. We need to get the special teams rolling a little bit better, certainly the power play to be more [...]

It’s not yet known — mostly because of Ryan Smyth’s weather-related delay — exactly what role Teddy Purcell will fill for the Kings tonight, but it is known that he will get a chance to end his nine-game run as a healthy scratch, and a chance to show that he can be the scoring threat [...]