DALLAS -- Alec Martinez, who saw one apparent goal disallowed, scored 1:20 into overtime as Los Angeles Kings beat the Dallas Stars 4-3 on Thursday night.Martinezs wrist shot from the slot went past a screen by Tanner Pearson to beat Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen.(Tyler Toffoli) made a really good play to me in the slot. (Pearson) was in front with a good screen, Martinez said. All I had to do was really hit the net.Martinezs second-period drive from the left point was ruled no goal because a teammate was in the paint in front of Lehtonen.Stars coach Lindy Ruff thought the overtime goal shouldnt have counted either.I think its a terrible call at the end of the game. I thought our goaltender was interfered with. He was elbowed in the head before the puck went in the net, he said. I respectfully and disrespectfully disagree with that. They look at it for five seconds, and they call it a good goal.The Kings had lost their first three games. Dallas fell to 2-1-1.Thats pretty much the way we played for other than one period this season except we got a break to win, Kings coach Darryl Sutter said.Dallas Jason Spezza tied the game at 3 with 2:07 left in regulation with a shot from the left faceoff circle that beat Kings goalie Peter Budaj.It would have been a feel-good win for us if we could have pulled it out in overtime, Spezza said. Probably makes it a little more frustrating.Los Angeles Nic Dowd scored the games first goal, the first of his eight-game NHL career, on the power play in the first period.The Kings took a one-goal lead twice more during a second period that included two fights and 10 penalties for 34 minutes. Jeff Carter and Pearson scored and assisted on each others goal.Goals by Dallas Radek Faksa and Jamie Benn had tied the game.Lehtonen made 35 saves. Budaj had 17 in his first NHL win since Feb. 12.The Kings had been struggling since losing starting goalie Jonathan Quick in the opening game.This wasnt us, starting 0-3, Budaj said. We definitely showed today in a hot building against a very good team we came out hard. We outshoot them and we played a real strong defensive game. It was great to see the guys have that desperation.Martinez had an assist on Carters goal.Spezza had a goal and an assist, and teammate Tyler Seguin assisted twice.To set up Dowds goal at 8:18 of the first period, Dustin Brown passed from the left side to Tom Gilbert on the right. His pass found Dowd low in the left faceoff circle.Faksa tied the game at 11:40. With Budaj out of the net, Spezza corralled the puck behind the goal line and passed out to Faksa in the right circle.Carter scored from the top of the slot at 1:24 of the second period.Benn tied the game again at 2 with a shot into the upper left corner from the left circle at 5:00.Each team killed four minutes of penalties in the second period. Los Angeles outshot the Stars 18-7 in the second.Game notes Dallas lost two wings to injury in the second period: Patrick Sharp with concussion-like symptoms and Patrick Eaves with a lower-body injury. Ruff indicated that Sharp could miss more time. ... Los Angeles D Brayden McNabb was involved in both second-period fights. Stars LW Antoine Roussel received 16 penalty minutes for his role in the first altercation, and totaled 18 minutes for the game. 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Shes not too proud to confess every doubt and crying jag and throat-clenching fear she has felt about making the five-woman squad that will compete at next months Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.Or how the pressure gets ratcheted up more at the trials.Its the survival of the fittest, Raisman says. And all of us are exhausted.The months-long U.S. Olympic team selection process is choreographed by national team director Martha Karolyi and meticulously designed to be high on difficulty, high on volume training, high on the sort of longitudinal oversight that is meant to produce pressure-ready gymnasts who can conjure up great performances on demand. Karolyi and her selection committee closely watch even off-day workouts.The process is meant to milk the best possible performance out of every contender for the five-woman Olympic team, whose names will be announced by Karolyi and her selection committee after the competition concludes Sunday night.While Karolyi listens to the others, she always has the biggest say.Laughing at herself now, Raisman says, I definitely get a little nervous when Martha comes over. If I even see her in the corner of my eye, I always get a little nervous. If you watch her selection committee, theyre watching every single move you make and she has them placed at each event to make sure were all doing our job. So I always take a look around and know where she is. I think all the girls are like that here. Were always like [whispering]: Shes here, shes here. Shes right here!Raisman says she tried to prepare her younger teammates for what else they would encounter here at the trials, especially in Fridays opening-night competition. I told them the arena is going to be so loud, theyre going to be chanting U.S.A as loud as they can, the noise is going to be incredible. Every parent and kid in the stands will be cheering for us, unlike other places we go in the world. Its just going to be intense.And she was right. The pressure on all 14 finalists was palpable. You could see it as they came tearing down the vault runway with their faces serious, jaws set. You noticed the tight little smiles they could barely muster after landing a dismount off the bars or beam because their minds were already racing ahead to what their score would be. Would it get them to Rio? Would it hurt their chances?Laurie Hernandez got the biggest roar of opening night for her terrific floor routine. But the gasps of the capaciity crowd at SAP Center when returning favorite Gabby Douglas fell off the beam had to only add to Douglas horror.ddddddddddddIts hard to flip the switch, Douglas admitted, and get back on track.Even Biles -- a three-time world champ, but rookie when it comes to the Olympic trials -- walked off the floor staring at her feet after her beam routine because she was unhappy with her performance.I wouldnt say it was nerves tonight, exactly, that affected her, Biles coach, Aimee Boorman, explained Friday. I think she was more excited than nervous. At one point, she turned to me and said, Theres just so much energy in this room. This energy is out of control! She had to find a way to control it.Biles should be more relaxed than anyone. Shes a lock to make the Olympic team. Raisman and 16-year-old newcomer Hernandez seem safe too, barring a catastrophe on closing night. Hernandez, in particular, was terrific Friday, despite a bobble on the uneven bars. The energy and charisma she threw out later during her electric floor exercise left Karolyi smiling and nodding, Wow! after Hernandez stuck her last pose and the music stopped.Douglas wasnt so lucky. The defending Olympic all-around champ was sitting fourth until she fell off the balance beam on her last rotation of the night, dropping her to seventh place with one day to go.?Douglas never complains about still being judged by her 2012 standard, or relentlessly asked questions about Now versus Then. But the storyline has always been a little dishonest toward her. Douglas is now a 20-year-old woman who is three inches taller and light-years different from her 16-year-old self in London. Its also been clear for some time that she isnt the same gymnast she was four years ago and, anyway, even if she was, Biles has come along since then to blaze past Douglas and everyone else in the world. Its disingenuous to suggest Douglas could again win the all-around.Instead, Douglas has spoken repeatedly at these trials about trying to get back to being smiley and bubbly and trusting her training because thats when I compete best. But she looked lost in thought and emotionally subdued in both Thursdays workout and Fridays competition and now needs a strong showing Sunday to cement her place on the Olympic team.I have to find that joy again, Douglas said.Raisman understands.Its all just so hard sometimes that Ive doubted if I have what it takes, Raisman says of her own comeback. There were some days in training where my coach would say, Do something, and Id look at him like, Are you crazy? ... As he always says, You can hate me now, but I promise you, youll thank me later.Raisman laughs now and says she sees the wisdom in making the U.S. Olympic team selection process as arduous as its become.The system works, she says. So they shouldnt change it. Its intense, but we all know if we just do our jobs, we can be the best in the world again. ' ' '
