After Fast Start, Kings Tie Flyers : Hockey: Lindros and Granato score in the first 2:10, but then there is no more scoring for the next 62:50.

Two goals in the opening 2:10 and it seemed as though the Kings and Flyers were off to another night of fast-break hockey, an offensive display perfectly designed for the Kings’ Wayne Gretzky and Philadelphia’s Eric Lindros.

That short burst ended up being nothing more than a teaser. The scoring spigot abruptly turned off and turned into a hard-hitting game as the Kings and the Flyers tied, 1-1, on Wednesday at the Forum before an announced crowd of 15,452.

Which means the Kings (2-0-3) and the Flyers (4-0-1) remain two of the three unbeaten teams in the NHL. Hartford (4-0) is the other. It was the Kings’ fourth consecutive overtime game and third consecutive tie. The 1974-75 Kings had the best start in franchise history, 3-0-3.

Philadelphia had entered the game by outscoring its opponents, 19-3, in its first four games, so the low-scoring outcome was a surprise, considering the Flyers scored on their first shot and the Kings on their third.

Lindros, the NHL’s most valuable player last season, picked up his fourth goal and eighth point of the season one minute into the game. Lindros, taking a short pass from linemate Mikael Renberg, beat King goaltender Byron Dafoe on the glove side with a blast from the top of the right circle.

But 35 seconds later, Flyer defenseman Petr Svoboda was sent off for holding/obstruction and the Kings scored on the ensuing power play, at 2:10. Rick Tocchet, a former Flyer, sent a short cross-ice pass to Tony Granato, who scored from the edge of the left circle for his second goal of the season. Granato also scored the game-tying goal in Sunday’s 3-3 tie at Vancouver.

Then the offense slowed considerably. The Kings outshot the Flyers, 7-4, in the first period and mustered only 14 more through the next two. The Flyers outshot the Kings, 23-21, in regulation.

What helped the Kings hold off the Flyers was a tenacious display of penalty killing. Before Wednesday, the Flyers were third overall in the NHL on the power play with a success rate of 25%, boosted mostly by Sunday’s four-for-seven performance against Edmonton in a 7-1 victory.

But the Kings’ penalty killing was flawless, shutting down the Flyers, who had nine power-play opportunities, including two consecutive chances in the final 6:09 of regulation.

“We were trying to pressure them as much as we could,” King Coach Larry Robinson said. “I thought our forecheckers did a great job of making them rush their plays. We’ve gotten away from running around in our own zone.”

Asked if he had a special strategy for Lindros’ line, Robinson said: “I had a couple of lines I wanted to use against him. I’m very happy with the job everyone did. We used two sets of defensemen against them. John LeClair and Renberg, those are two big guys. But if you use only muscle with muscle you’re playing into their hands. Sometimes you have to play with your head.”

Both teams had excellent chances in overtime. Renberg was stymied down low on the right wing by Dafoe only 21 seconds into overtime. Dafoe faced 24 shots in all. And the Kings were given a rare power play in overtime when Kevin Dineen was penalized for tripping/obstructing John Druce but couldn’t get anything past goaltender Dominic Roussel.

“This was the way Larry [Robinson] has wanted us to play from the beginning,” Dafoe said. “Our penalty killers were great. I don’t remember the Flyers having a good scoring opportunity on the power-play all night.”

King Notes

Injured goaltender Kelly Hrudey, out with a sprained left ankle, will be off the ice for at least another week. He had planned to play this weekend in Las Vegas with the Kings’ minor league team, the Phoenix Roadrunners, but Hrudey is not ready. “It’s still sore and we will be leaving him at home on the [upcoming] road trip,” King General Manager Sam McMaster said.” . . . Former King coach Barry Melrose will be returning to the Forum on Nov. 4, the first time since his firing on April 21. He will an ESPN color commentator for the King-New Jersey Devil game.

* DUCKS GET BURNED: Anaheim mascot goes down, then Vancouver breaks it open with three goals in the third period. C2