Philadelphia still unkind to Kings

PHILADELPHIA -- Scott Hartnell couldn’t hear the referee, so he listened to the fans.

“When I heard the cheers, I knew we won,” Hartnell said.

A sliding Hartnell kicked in a goal with 28.5 seconds left in overtime to lift the Flyers to a 3-2 victory Tuesday night that kept the Kings winless in Philadelphia since March 23, 2000.

Simon Gagne and Braydon Coburn also scored and Martin Biron had 29 saves for Atlantic Division-leading Philadelphia, which won for the ninth time in its last 11 games.

Biron kept the Flyers in it with a pad save on a point-blank shot by Jack Johnson in overtime.

With the clock winding down, Mike Richards dumped the puck toward a streaking Hartnell, who slid toward the net and scored when the puck deflected off his skate. The play was reviewed, but it was determined Hartnell didn’t intentionally kick the puck.

“The guy knocked me down, it hit my skate and went in,” Hartnell said. “It doesn’t matter how pretty they are.”

Kings goaltender Jason LaBarbera had trouble seeing the puck with Hartnell crashing toward him.

“It happened so fast. It was tough for me to see,” LaBarbera said. “I know it didn’t go off [Hartnell’s] stick. It just bounced off the ice and hit his shin pad and it went in. Fluke play.”

Matt Moulson and Anze Kopitar had goals for the Kings.

“We got a point out of it in a tough building,” Kings Coach Marc Crawford said. “It’s something we can build on.”

After a scoreless first period in the first game following the All-Star break, the teams traded goals in the opening two minutes of the second.

Coburn gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead when he ripped a shot from just inside the blue line through a screen past LaBarbera. The puck appeared to deflect off a Kings defenseman on its way.

Kopitar answered with his 20th goal following a giveaway by Richards along the boards.

Gagne put the Flyers ahead, 2-1, on a power play when he deflected Kimmo Timonen’s slap shot past LaBarbera 3:48 into the final period.

Moulson deflected Lubomir Visnovsky’s rising shot from near the blue line to tie it at 2-2 with 7:02 left.

Left wing Raitis Ivanans, 29, agreed to terms on a two-year contract extension with the Kings. Financial terms were not disclosed.