Boucher puts hurt on former team

Defenseman Philippe Boucher scored three power-play goals for the first hat trick of his career, leading the Dallas Stars to a 5-3 victory over the Kings on Friday night.

Dallas surged to a 3-0 first-period lead on two man-advantage goals from Boucher, a former King, and one from defenseman Sergei Zubov. Eric Lindros assisted on all three.

The Stars, 5-2 in their last seven games, were three for five on the power play in the first period.

Seven of the goals came on the power play, two by Dustin Brown of the Kings, 2-4-1 in their last seven games.

Jere Lehtinen had an empty-net goal for Dallas.

Alexander Frolov of the Kings crashed the net and capitalized on a two-man advantage with his 13th goal of the season at 8:17 of the third period to narrow the deficit to 4-3.

Rookie goalie Mike Smith stopped 22 shots for the Stars. Smith was playing in his third straight game and making his second consecutive start in place of Marty Turco.

Smith relieved Turco in the first period of Monday night’s 5-4 victory over Colorado, then Smith got the second shutout of his career in a 1-0 win over Nashville on Wednesday night.

Dallas is 4-0 against the Kings this season.

Boucher’s first goal glanced in off the stick of a Kings defender at 4:30 of the opening period to get the scoring underway.

Zubov made it 2-0 at 12:53 of the opening period with a one-timer from 40 feet while the Stars held a two-man advantage, and 26 seconds later Boucher beat Kings goalie Mathieu Garon from beyond the right circle to stretch the lead to 3-0.

But Brown scored his man-advantage goals over a span of 2:21 in the second period to pull the Kings to within 3-2.

Brown’s first goal at 5:48 ended Smith’s shutout streak of 105 minutes 7 seconds.