Sergei Samsonov scores the game-winner with 52 seconds to play.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Sergei Samsonov scored with 52 seconds left in overtime after Mike Knuble tied it late in the third period with his second goal of the game as the Boston Bruins beat the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 4-3 Sunday night.

Steve Rucchin scored twice on power plays, Vaclav Prospal had a goal and an assist and Sergei Fedorov had two assists. But it wasn’t enough for the Ducks, who are off to their first 0-5 start in the franchise’s 11-year history and have matched their longest losing streak of last season.

Knuble, who got the winner with 1:48 left in the third period of Saturday night’s 4-3 victory at Los Angeles, beat Jean-Sebastien Giguere to the stick side with a 20-foot wrist shot from the slot with 4:25 left in regulation after a giveaway by Rucchin in the Boston zone. The power-play goal came after a hooking penalty against defenseman Niclas Havelid.

Another Anaheim turnover resulted in Samsonov’s goal. Boston defenseman Jeff Jillson intercepted Prospal’s attempted clearing pass and got the puck to Samsonov, who broke for the net and flipped the puck over Giguere’s glove.

Brian Rolston also scored for the Bruins and Nick Boynton had two assists in Boston’s only meeting this season with the Ducks.

After a scoreless first period, the teams combined for five goals in a span of 8 minutes in the second. Prospal snapped a 1-all tie at the 4:24 mark, completing a give-and-go with Fedorov and beating Andrew Raycroft with a 20-footer to the stick side – just 15 seconds after Rolston converted a turnover deep in the Anaheim end into the tying goal.

The Ducks, coming off consecutive shutout losses at home against Phoenix and Ottawa, opened the scoring with one second left on an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty assessed to Boston captain Joe Thornton at the end of the first period. Rucchin got the puck from rookie Joffrey Lupul in the right circle and one-timed it past Raycroft’s glove, ending Anaheim’s scoreless drought at 161 minutes, 18 seconds.

Rucchin made it 3-1 at 8:34 of the period – just 10 seconds after Knuble was sent off for tripping. Knuble got the goal back about two minutes later, breaking past the Anaheim defense and beating Giguere to the stick side from close range.

Notes: Boston has allowed 11 power play goals in 36 short-handed situations. The Ducks were 1-for-16 on the power play over their first four games. … This was the fifth time the Bruins have played the Ducks and Kings in consecutive road games, and the second time they swept both. They also did it in October 1997. … The Ducks are 55-80-20 against the NHL’s original six teams. The Bruins are 112-71-29 against the nine post-1990 expansion clubs.

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