LOS ANGELES – Joe Corvo scored on a power play 40 seconds into overtime and the Los Angeles Kings snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.

Corvo, Craig Conroy and Tom Kostopoulos each had a goal and an assist. Pavol Demitra scored a short-handed goal and Eric Belanger extended his goal-scoring streak to three games, helping the Kings win for only the fourth time in their last 16 games.

Los Angeles was without defenseman Mattias Norstrom, who was scratched for the second straight game because of a cervical strain.

Martin Lapointe scored the tying goal midway through the third period and Rene Bourque also scored for Chicago. Tyler Arnason and defenseman Brent Seabrook had power-play goals for the Blackhawks, who came in with the league’s worst power-play percentage and were 3-for-40 with the man advantage their previous nine games.

The Kings blew a 4-2 lead in the third period as Arnason and Lapointe each scored their 13th goal of the season. Lapointe got the equalizer on a 30-foot wrist shot from the right circle that beat a screened Jason LaBarbera between the pads with 10:22 left in regulation.

Kings coach Andy Murray replaced LaBarbera with Mathieu Garon, who faced only two shots the rest of the way.

Corvo pulled out the victory with his 13th goal, a 25-foot slap shot that beat Craig Anderson high to the glove side while Matthew Barnaby was serving a delay-of-game penalty for clearing the puck over the glass.

Anderson, obviously upset over the power-play goal and the penalty that led to it, received a 10-minute misconduct for displaying his anger with referees Bill McCreary and Chris Lee.

Demitra opened the scoring at 8:44 of the first period with his team-high 21st goal, while teammate Sean Avery was off for hooking Jim Dowd. Seabrook tied it just 19 seconds later with his fifth goal, a 40-foot slap shot that broke off LaBarbera’s pads with 29 seconds still remaining on Avery’s penalty.

The Kings regained the lead 21/2 minutes before the first intermission. Avery carried the puck down the left boards and made a flip pass toward the net, where Kostopoulos redirected it in midair past Anderson’s glove. The goal was upheld by the video judge, who ruled that Kostopoulos’ stick was below the crossbar when he made contact.

Conroy made it 3-1 at 1:09 of the second with his 19th goal, tipping in Corvo’s one-timer from the top of the left circle while Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith was off for hooking Demitra.

The Blackhawks responded less than 21/2 minutes later with Bourque’s 10th goal, but Belanger restored the Kings’ two-goal margin at 17:29 of the second period with his 14th of the season.

Notes: The Kings honored Jim Fox in a 10-minute pregame ceremony for his 25 years with the organization. He is their seventh all-time leading point scorer, and is in his 16th season as the team’s TV analyst. … The Blackhawks conclude their six-game road trip Sunday at Anaheim before beginning their Olympic break. None of their players will be going to the Turin Games as a result of injuries to G Nikolai Khabibulin and C Tuomo Ruutu. … The Blackhawks have won only four games in which they didn’t get a power-play goal. Two of those games were decided in a shootout. … The Kings have allowed at least one power-play goal in 10 straight games and have allowed 23 during that stretch – including a club-record five in Tuesday’s 5-1 loss at Minnesota.

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