Kopitar scores the winner when Kings win game one

31 May 2012 | Henrik Lundqvist

The Stanley Cup finals have started. Slovenia's super star Anze Kopitar got the game-winning goal in the first game when Los Angeles Kings beat New Jersey Devils in overtime.

Anze Kopitar got a pass from Justin Williams and found himself all alone with New Jersey's goalie Martin Brodeur at 8:13 of the overtime period. Kopitar made no mistake and got the 2-1 game-winner for Kings.

"I didn't know if they had a backchecker coming, but I knew Kopi was in the area over there," Williams said to NHL.com. "That's when you just throw an area pass over there; hopefully he skates into it and hopefully it's timed right. Fortunately it was."

Kings took the lead half-ways through the first period when Colin Fraser scored from the right circle.

Russia's Anton Volchenkov tied it in the second period with a lot of luck. The puck went of Vyacheslav Voynov's chest and into the net.

Stats of the European players:

	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI
A. Kopitar	1	-	1	-	4	22:01
V. Voynov	-	-	-1	-	-	22:30

	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI
M. Zidlicky	-	-	-1	-	1	24:47
D. Zubrus	-	-	-2	2	1	21:05
A. Ponikarovsky	-	-	0	-	-	16:10
J. Josefson	-	-	1	-	-	16:47
I. Kovalchuk	-	-	0	-	1	21:13
P. Elias	-	1	1	-	1	19:22
A. Volchenkov	1	-	1	-	1	18:47

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