ANAHEIM, California: Marian Gaborik continued his red-hot touch with a goal after 34 seconds to help lead the Los Angeles Kings past the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 on Monday as the visitors opened a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series.

Gaborik stood out in the series-opening win on Saturday when he tied the game with seven seconds left in regulation and netted the winner in overtime, and he showed no signs of slowing down in Game 2.

The Sloviakin winger and the Kings are surging at just the right time, having won six straight contests.

They fell 3-0 behind in their first-round series against San Jose but completed a rare comeback and have looked impressive in the first two games in Anaheim.

“It doesn’t even feel like being on the road,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter told reporters, of playing cross-town from their own arena.

“We played really good in this building during the regular season. It was the same for us tonight.”

Following the quick tally, Anaheim’s Patrick Maroon tied the game at 9:40 in the first period but Alec Martinez responded with the decisive tally less than three minutes later.

Dwight King tacked on an empty-net goal for Los Angeles in the closing seconds.

Goaltender Jonathan Quick, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy when the Kings won the Stanley Cup in 2012, made 36 saves in a strong performance.

Anaheim outshot Los Angeles 37-17 yet till came out on the losing end.

“I’m ticked off right now,” Anaheim center Ryan Getzlaf said. “We’re in playoff time right now. There are no excuses for anything. We have to be better.”

The Ducks will attempt to recover from two straight home losses when the series shifts down the road to Los Angeles for Game Three on Thursday.

Ovechkin, Bobrovsky lead Russia team to worlds

Meanwhile, Washington Capitals wing Alex Ovechkin and Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky will lead Russia in the world ice hockey championship starting in Minsk, Belarus, on Friday.

Just seven players, including captain Ovechkin, have survived from the squad that lost to Finland in the Sochi Olympic quarterfinals. One notable absentee was former New Jersey Devils wing Ilya Kovalchuk, now playing for SKA St. Petersburg, who was injured.

Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Anton Khudobin was on track to play at his first worlds after a breakout NHL season saw him post a save percentage of .926, fifth best in the league.

Only NHL players whose teams have been eliminated from the playoffs were eligible for the squad announced on Tuesday by the Russian Hockey Federation, but more players can be added later on.

The worlds are the first major competition for new Russia coach Oleg Znarok. He has been tasked with reviving the team after it failed to win a medal at Sochi. Russia is to play Switzerland, Finland, the United States, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Germany and Belarus in the group stage.

The squad includes 26 names, one more than the maximum allowed by the International Ice Hockey Federation for the championship. Of the 26, eight play in the NHL, with the remaining 16 all drawn from the Kontinental Hockey League. That included defenseman Anton Belov, who left the Edmonton Oilers for Russian team SKA.

Among the other NHL players named were Washington Capitals defenseman Dmitry Orlov and wing Evgeny Kuznetsov, who at 21 was the youngest on the team.

Russia: Sergei Bobrovsky, Andrei Vasilevsky, Anton Khudobin, Anton Belov, Denis Denisov, Nikita Zaitsev, Andrei Zubarev, Alexander Kutuzov, Evgeny Medvedev, Dmitry Orlov, Maxim Chudinov, Egor Yakovlev, Artem Anisimov, Alexander Burmistrov, Evgeny Dadonov, Danis Zaripov, Ilya Zubov, Sergei Kalinin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nikolai Kulemin, Andrei Loktionov, Alex Ovechkin, Sergei Plotnikov, Viktor Tikhonov, Vadim Shipachev, Sergei Shirokov