Simple shot beats Kings

A flurry of fancy moves didn’t yield positive results for Mike Ribeiro in his previous shootout attempt.

So he decided a different approach was needed.

It paid off when Ribeiro scored the lone goal in the shootout, Marty Turco stopped all three shots he saw in the tiebreaker and the Dallas Stars beat the Kings, 3-2, Saturday to extend their skid to four games.

The Stars center put the puck between his legs and didn’t get close to scoring on a backhanded attempt during a shootout Thursday, which ended in a Dallas loss.

Ribeiro wanted to keep things simple this time.

“I wanted to make sure to get a shot on net,” Ribeiro said. “Goalies don’t really know what I’m going to do, and neither do I. I just decided to shoot it.”

Ribeiro, Dallas’ first skater in the shootout, beat Erik Ersberg with a wrist shot to put the Stars ahead.

Turco stopped Alexander Frolov, made a glove save on Dustin Brown and then turned away the attempt by Jack Johnson, who was activated after 41 games on the injured list because of a shoulder injury.

Jere Lehtinen had a goal and an assist for the Stars, who played their fourth consecutive overtime game and ninth in 14 overall. Ribeiro had Dallas’ other goal.

Brown had a goal and an assist for Los Angeles. Frolov scored with 16.9 seconds left to send the game into overtime for the Kings, who assigned forward Brian Boyle to Manchester of the American Hockey League.

Turco made 20 saves, and Ersberg stopped 32 shots.

“It’s a better result,” Brown said. “But I don’t think it was the result we wanted.”