MONTREAL: Boston’s Matt Fraser had a playoff debut to remember, scoring early in overtime to give the Bruins a 1-0 victory at Montreal on Thursday, leveling their NHL Eastern Conference semifinal series 2-2.

Across the country, Anaheim beat in-form local rival Los Angeles 3-2 to cut the Kings’ lead in the Western Conference series to 2-1.

Boston’s Fraser was making his first playoff appearance after being called up Wednesday from Providence of the American Hockey League. He jumped into a scramble in front of Canadiens goalie Carey Price and slid the puck under him into the net.

Fraser scored after Johnny Boychuk’s shot from the point took a high hop off the end boards and Price and defenseman Mike Weaver had trouble controlling the bouncing puck.

The Bruins will have a chance to take the lead in the series when they host Game 5 on Saturday.

Tuukka Rask made 33 saves for Boston, and Price stopped 34 shots to keep the game scoreless in regulation time.

Boston’s Carl Soderberg had the best chance in the final minute after Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban’s blind back pass was intercepted, but Price partially blocked the shot as it went off the crossbar.

Anaheim’s Teemu Selanne scored the tiebreaking power-play goal late in the second period and the Ducks got the win they badly needed against Los Angeles.

Corey Perry got his first goal of the series and Ben Lovejoy scored with 2:55 left to give the Ducks victory and halt the Kings’ winning streak at six.

Anaheim’s Jonas Hiller made seven saves in the final 9:58 after rookie starting goaltender Frederik Andersen left with a leg injury.

Jeff Carter and Mike Richards scored and Jonathan Quick stopped 19 shots for the Kings, who had not lost since Game 3 of the first-round series against San Jose, which they stunningly turned around with four-straight wins to snatch a 4-3 victory.

Ducks hang on to beat Kings

In Los Angeles, the Anaheim Ducks clinched a much-needed 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings in Game Three of their Western Conference semi-final series on Thursday.

After dropping the first two games at home in their best-of-seven series, Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau made some changes which paid off as the Ducks cut the Kings’ series lead to 2-1.

The biggest change was inserting goaltender Fredrick Anderson in place of Jonas Hiller, who played well but lost the first two games of the series.

Anderson was strong before leaving late in the third period with an injury.

Anaheim opened the scoring on a power play early in the first period, Corey Perry grabbing his third goal of the postseason.

The Ducks got another power-play goal in the second when Nick Bonino set up Teemu Selanne.

“Since Game 6 against Dallas, he seems like he’s found the fountain of youth. I hope that keeps going,” Boudreau said.

“The reason Teemu has almost 700 goals is because he goes to the net and he stops.” Not surprisingly, Kings coach Darryl Sutter had a different take on the play.

“We needed to make a better play there,” he said.

Kings defenseman Drew Doughty was on the wrong end of things late in the third period.

As he tried to make too many moves with the puck Anaheim pinched it to launch a break and defenseman Ben Lovejoy scored to make it 3-1.

“It plants a seed of doubt in their minds, and that’s what we wanted to do,” Lovejoy said.

The Kings got on the board in the second period through Jeff Carer and made it 3-2 on Mike Richards’ goal with 30 seconds left but they had little time to find the equalizer.