Wins for San Jose and Detroit as the play-offs continue

Logan Couture scored an overtime winner for the San Jose Sharks to lead them past the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 and cut the series deficit to the same score.

Couture looked to be out of the game earlier on, missing more than 15 minutes after a hard hit from Jeff Carter, but he bounced back to become the Sharks' hero with a power-play marker.

The Sharks took the lead after only 89 seconds when Dan Boyle took a pass from Patrick Marleau and blasted a shot past Jon Quick from just inside the blue line.

But the Kings withstood a continuing barrage from the home side and levelled 10 minutes in, rookie Tyler Toffoli making the most of the mistake from Brad Stuart to skate on goal and beat Antti Niemi on the backhand.

The rest of the game proved to be frenzied but scoreless, but the Kings were hit with two vital penalties to Robyn Regehr and Trevor Lewis in the closing stages of regulation play and that left the Sharks with a 5-on-3 to start overtime.

And they made the most of it 1:29 in when Marleau played a one-touch pass in to Couture and the center smashed a shot past Quick to thrill a packed home crowd at the HP Pavillion.

Saturday's other game saw a shock result as the Detroit Red Wings levelled their series with top-seeded Chicago at 1-1 with a facile 4-1 victory on Blackhawks ice.

Things looked good for the home side when they took the lead 14:05 into the first period through Patrick Kane, but they were unable to build on that advantage and paid the price for allowing too many chances to the Wings.

Damian Brunner levelled the scores 2:40 into the second with his fourth goal of the play-offs and Detroit went into the third period 2-1 in front after Brendan Smith got on the end of a 3-on-1 attack to fire past Corey Crawford.

Johan Franzen, who assisted on Smith's goal, made it 3-1 and Valtteri Filppula closed out the scoring 7:57 from the buzzer.