ANAHEIM, California (Ticker) -- The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim scored more goals in a 6 1/2-minute span of the second period than they had in their first four games. But it still wasn't enough to earn their first win of the season.
Sergei Samsonov scored with 52 seconds left in overtime to lift the Boston Bruins to a 4-3 victory over the struggling Mighty Ducks, who registered their first point of the campaign but blew a two-goal lead.
Mike Knuble had two goals, including a power-play tally with 4:25 left in regulation, for the Bruins, who are 3-0-1 since dropping the opener of a six-game road trip at Tampa Bay on October 10.
Knuble scored the game-winner at Los Angeles on Saturday with 1:48 remaining to help the Bruins rally from a three-goal deficit to beat the Kings, 4-3.
"I like the way we came back, but we don't want to become a team that falls behind all the time," Bruins coach Mike Sullivan said.
With just a minute remaining in the extra period, Jean-Sebastien Giguere made a pad save on a wrist shot by Bruins defenseman Jeff Jillson, but the Ducks could not clear the zone.
Jillson corralled the loose puck and passed down low to Samsonov, who lifted it over Giguere's left shoulder to end the contest.
"I was pretty wide-open," Samsonov said. "Jeff made a great play. He took a couple of steps to get the puck to me. I took the shot and put it in."
"To me, this one is inexcusable," Anaheim coach Mike Babcock said. "I don't care if they beat you, when you beat yourselves, that's a totally unacceptable thing and to me that was tonight."
After a scoreless first period, the teams combined for five goals in the first 10:31 of the second.
Anaheim's Steve Rucchin scored a pair of power-play goals during the flurry, stuffing a rebound of a missed shot by Sergei Fedorov past Andrew Raycroft for a 3-1 advantage at the 8:34 mark - just 10 seconds after Knuble was sent off for tripping.
The Ducks had scored just two goals, both by Rob Niedermayer, in losing their first four games.
"I guess we're in the same boat as last game - almost, but we're not there," Rucchin said.
Knuble halved the deficit just under two minutes later off a nifty backhanded shot over Giguere, then tied the contest late in the third period, just 19 seconds after Samsonov was hooked by Niclas Havelid behind Anaheim's goal.
The latter goal was set up after Rucchin accidentally dumped the puck to Joe Thornton deep in Anaheim's zone after mistaking him for a teammate.
"Pretty embarrassing situation, obviously," Rucchin said. "The puck was being called for behind me and I thought Jason Krog was with me on the play. It was a bad play on my part for that to happen."
"It started with a turnover," Knuble said. "Joe kind of tapped his stick. Joe picked it up and I sent it ahead to Glen (Murray). Glen gave it to me and I did a little hitch. I think that was the key to the play, the hitch, and I put it in."
Rucchin opened the scoring two minutes into the second period with one second left on a power play set up when Thornton was whistled for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty at the end of the first period. It snapped an Anaheim scoring drought of more than 161 minutes.
Brian Rolston evened the score with his fourth goal of the season at 4:09, putting home a rebound of a shot by Patrice Bergeron that bounced off Giguere's leg.
Just 15 seconds later, Anaheim took a 2-1 lead after Fedorov lifted a backhanded pass from the right boards over three Bruins to Vaclav Prospal, who shot just inside the left goalpost past Raycroft.
"Prospal gets a goal, which is a positive thing," Babcock said. "Fedorov got a couple points, which is a positive thing, but ... if I'm telling you that we've played three games at home and haven't won one, and I'm looking to give you that as a positive, that's not that positive."
"We just have to be a liitle bit more patient and get the job done for 60 minutes, or 65 minutes, whatever it takes," Fedorov said. "We have to be very positive. It's very tough for everybody."
