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ORANGE — Three cats were killed Monday night in an apartment fire in Orange, but no other injuries were reported.

The fire broke out at 10:19 p.m. at the Terrace Apartment at 200 City Blvd. West, according to the Orange Fire Department.

Thirty-four firefighters got the fire under control in a little less than 30 minutes, according to a dispatcher.

The cause of the fire was under investigation and there was no immediate word of displacements.

LOS ANGELES — Dustin Brown had a goal disallowed with just under 10 seconds to play in a one-goal loss to Edmonton on Saturday because he was ruled to have interfered with the goaltender. He forgot about it, and it’s a good thing he did because to dwell on something at this level rarely works.

There was no denying Brown on Monday. After the Kings came from two goals down late in the third period to tie the score with 10.8 seconds left in regulation, Brown scored the game-winner on a power-play goal 3:14 into the overtime period to give his team a 3-2 victory over the Pacific Division-leading Vegas Golden Knights before a sellout crowd of 18,230 at Staples Center.

The victory snapped a two-game losing streak, and moved the Kings (34-24-5, 73 points) into a tie for fourth place with Calgary in the Pacific Division. They are a point behind third-place Anaheim, meaning the Kings are a point out of the playoffs with 19 games to play; a third-place divisional finish guarantees a team a postseason berth.

Vegas (41-16-5, 87 points) came in having won two in a row and five of six.

Was this poetic justice for Brown?

“Just let it go,” Brown said to a reporter, alluding to Saturday’s controversial loss. “There is not much you can do. It’s frustrating and I commented on it the other night. We had to move on. There is no way to get two points back, so we’ve just gotta start collecting points now.”

The goal was No. 19 on the season for Brown, who beat Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury from up close and personal. Fleury stopped 39 shots.

American hero Dustin Brown clearly took his inspiration from having @USAHockey in the house showing off their Olympic Gold Medals 😎 #TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/vvzytBCQgk

— LA Kings (@LAKings) February 27, 2018

The Golden Knights led 2-0 on a first-period goal by Erik Haula – his 23rd – and Reilly Smith’s 21st just 47 seconds into the third.

The Kings got a weird power-play goal from Jeff Carter at 12:28 of the third to get within 2-1. Carter shot and the save was made by Fleury. But the puck bounced back and hit Vegas’ Cody Eakin in the helmet, the puck flying into the net. It was Carter’s first of the season.

“It was a fluky goal, but it’s because we were getting players to the net,” Brown said.

Then, with 10.8 seconds to play, Anze Kopitar scored his 26th of the season to send it into overtime.

The LA Kings tie it with 10 seconds left… but this time the goal counted! pic.twitter.com/PgnOC4lw2D

— LA Kings (@LAKings) February 27, 2018

“You could almost feel that goal at the end to tie it come with the pressure and everything,” said Tyler Toffoli, whose team was all over the Golden Knights in their zone before Kopitar’s equalizer. “It’s really nice to get that win, but now we’ve gotta move on to tomorrow.”

The Kings and Golden Knights play a rematch Tuesday night in Las Vegas.

Kopitar had two assists, and Toffoli, Brown, Dion Phaneuf and Drew Doughty each had one. Jonathan Quick was sensational in goal, stopping 37 shots.

Not only did the @LAKings score but @JonathanQuick32 is playing out of his mind 🤯 #GoKingsGO https://t.co/dcZmpho2jJ pic.twitter.com/tKp0eylP96

— FOX Sports West (@FoxSportsWest) February 27, 2018

Kings coach John Stevens was thrilled.

“We just stayed with it,” he said. “I thought, obviously, we had to chase the game a little bit there. The power-play goal (by Carter) was huge for us. I think any time you get some sustained pressure there – the power-play was not too good early – but we had some good attack time there and ended up scoring a big goal.

“It gave us the life we needed. Now you’re within one and then I think the flurry at the end was outstanding. Guys came up with a lot of loose pucks. There was a lot of hunger for the loose pucks.”

The Kings out-shot the Golden Knights 42-39 in a wildly entertaining game that came with a playoff atmosphere. Kings fans erupted when Kopitar tied the score, then topped that reaction when Brown scored the game-winner to stun Vegas.

Vegas’ Smith was disappointed, but gracious.

“They kept on creating chances,” he said. “They created a lot of scrambles in front of the net. In the third period, they put a lot of pucks to the net and they created some opportunities. Obviously, a few bounces helped them out.

“That was a tough way to finish that one. We played a good team game. Quick made a lot of good saves and kept them in it a couple of times.”

Prior to the game, the Kings honored the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team, which just won the told medal in the Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Chants of “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A” filled the arena.

“…we gotta try to get a lead here.”

– Dustin Brown after scoring the OT game-winner pic.twitter.com/KGD5ktg0a8

— LA Kings (@LAKings) February 27, 2018

The U.S. Women’s Team had fun showing off those #GOLD medals at @STAPLESCenter tonight. Thanks for having us, @LAKings! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/mkEdKHT7oJ

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) February 27, 2018

LOS ANGELES — What it takes to beat the Vegas Golden Knights:

• A power-play goal that bounces from goalie Marc-Andre Fleury to the helmet of Cody Eakin, back past Fleury.

• A blast by Anze Kopitar with 10.8 seconds left that defies shutter speeds.

• A backhand-to-forehand creation by Dustin Brown, fashioned from his knees at the entrance to Fleury’s net that got over the pads and provided instant victory out of oatmeal.

The 3-2 win put the Kings back over the playoff line and sets up another close encounter Tuesday night in Las Vegas.

Brown did his thing and then skated off, cracking up a Kings’ employee by telling him, “I can’t believe I was the No. 1 star.”

Belief came hard all night.

For more than two and a half periods, the Knights were busily underscoring their perch on top of the Western Conference. They were 41-16-4 at the time. Weren’t they supposed to quit playing like this by now? Actually they might be getting better.

Jonathan Quick was pushed to his utmost powers of denial. Twice he had to skate nearly to the blue line to stop a potential Vegas breakaway. Again and again he slid and stopped wide-open shots, haunting Alex Tuch in particular.

Only a bullet by Eric Haula got past him until the beginning of the third period, when Reilly Smith broke down Derek Forbort, went behind the net, came out to meet a rebound before Drew Doughty could stop him, and tapped a 2-0 lead past Quick.

“You have to get the puck past them in the offensive zone,” Brown said. “You have to get it behind their D. If you’re out there trying to make plays at the blue line, they break those up and they have three or four guys going the other way real quick. That’s how they catch you.”

But the Kings managed to defuse the Vegas power play and got an opening when Ryan Reaves was sent to the box. They converged on Fleury, and Jeff Carter, who hadn’t scored yet this season, took a bad-angle shot. Instead it turned into a mean pinball, ricocheting off Eakin’s head.

“It was a break but we were attacking the net,” Brown said. “We hadn’t gotten much time down low. Sometimes the puck got there and we weren’t there, sometimes we were there and the puck wasn’t there.”

With Quick pulled, the Kings threw everything into the breach. Two different scrambles in front of the net kept Fleury busy but produced no goals.

“I think Carts (Carter) and I probably had 35 shots each in the crease there,” Brown said.

Finally Kopitar fished the puck out of the goal-side scrum and flipped it out to Dion Phaneuf in the high slot. Then Kopitar disengaged and went to the right wing.

What happened next made you think of the great double-play combos in baseball. Phaneuf’s pass went right to Kopitar’s clubface, and it was past Fleury before the image got to his retina. Tie game, and a sullen Staples Center crowd sounded off.

In overtime, Brown camped out and waited for Tyler Toffoli’s shot, then converted his 19th goal out of pure slickness.

“I thought we played a solid game,” Brown said, “but we couldn’t get bodies in front of the net. When we did we found goals.”

“If you think you’re going to score on the rush against them, you’re not going to do that,” Coach John Stevens said. “They’re going the other way in a hurry. We did a better job working back, generating speed. You can’t get stretched out against them, and they like to squeeze you from in front and back, and their D does a good job of holding gaps. You have to want to forecheck, you have to have the passion to forecheck against them.”

That is how the Ducks shut out Vegas last week. In the three games before that, the Knights scored 16 times. In the two games since that loss, they scored 13 times. So it takes something exceptional, like Quick was Monday.

Stevens had called this a “two-game playoff” Monday morning, and both he and Knights coach Gerard Gallant treated it accordingly. The Kings shuffled their lines all night. Stevens said Nate Thompson played all three forward positions during the game. Having Carter back, and the options therein, was big.

Plus, James Neal left the game in the second period and Vegas had to start shuffling, too. But the Knights’ lines are so even that matchups become tricky.

“I loved the way we played,” Gallant said. “They get a break on the first goal and they scored late. I liked everything we did tonight. A loss like that is going to happen, but we got one point and they got two.”

The win gives the Kings 73 points and lets them overtake Calgary for a wild-card spot. That, like everything else in hockey and life, is day-to-day. But with their roster settled for a six-week drag race, the Kings finally learned what it takes to beat Vegas. Actually they knew what it took, but now Vegas knows the Kings have it.

SANTA ANA — A 27-year-old Placentia man pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbing four 7-Eleven stores in Orange County.

Hernan Viveros Sanchez pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree robbery and admitted sentencing enhancements for the use of a gun in the stickups, according to court records.

Sanchez was arrested Jan. 28, 2016, thanks to a tip to Orange County Crime Stoppers generated by media publicity about the string of robberies, according to Santa Ana police. He was also suspected of robberies in Los Angeles County.

Sanchez robbed 7-Eleven stores at 1679 N. Glassell St., in Orange, on Aug. 27, 2015; at 18532 Yorba Linda Blvd. in Yorba Linda on Sept. 4, 2015; at 950 S. Harbor Blvd. in Santa Ana on Sept. 11, 2015; and at 1220 N. Bristol St. in Santa Ana on Sept. 14, 2015.

LOS ANGELES — First-round picks were flying off the shelves like bottled water in a hurricane watch.

Boston gave up one. So did Vegas. So did Tampa Bay. So did Nashville and Winnipeg. The Stanley Cup chase has turned into casino night. As the trade deadline passed on Monday, it was difficult to discern activity from accomplishment, but it sells tickets and hope.

The Kings took a pass on Manic Monday. They’re still committed to win-now and win-later. You can do that, even with a snug salary cap.

They didn’t trade their top pick, and they told anybody who wanted Gabe Vilardi to talk to the hand. Vilardi was last year’s first-rounder and he has 43 points in 23 games at Kingston, in the Ontario Hockey League. He isn’t going anywhere because, without some young blood, neither are the Kings.

Besides, the Kings didn’t wait until the deadline. They got high-minute veteran Dion Phaneuf and center Nate Thompson for defense, and they had managed to inflate the value of goaltender Darcy Kuemper so they could trade him to Arizona for Tobias Rieder, a 24-year-old winger with speed.

A recovering Jeff Carter will have more impact than any of the newly acquired parties, and Trevor Lewis is mending as well.

“I look at that lineup and say it should compete for a playoff spot,” General Manager Rob Blake said.

Shortly before he said that, Michael Amadio came off the ice. He was the AHL’s player of the month in December. Amadio has also played 23 games for the Kings. They had lost three consecutive games when they got to Buffalo on Feb. 17, and Amadio scored twice in a 4-2 win. They went on to win at Chicago and Winnipeg with Amadio on board. In limited minutes he has seven points. His imprint has exceeded his numbers.

“He showed he could play in the NHL,” Blake said. “Like a lot of players, he came up the first time and then went down and said, ‘You know, I can play in that league.’ So he came back up in a different way.”

Amadio, 21, was a third-round pick in 2014. At the time he was known as a reliable penalty-killer who had been well-schooled defensively, at least by junior hockey standards. The next year he exploded for 50 goals with North Bay, becoming a second-team OHL All-Star in a league that already had Mitch Marner (Toronto) and Alex DeBrincat (Erie).

“I just found I was more confident shooting the puck that year,” Amadio said.

Last year he came up for the AHL playoffs and was playing in last-minute, game-deciding situations. His minutes will dwindle for the Kings with the arriving and returning veterans, but he’s heard that before, along with the dogged criticism about his speed or lack thereof.

The Kings weren’t supposed to have young talent. This year Adrian Kempe is plus-12, Alex Iafallo has played 60 games and been on the top line for many of them, and Paul LaDue is carving out minutes on defense.

Blake might have loaded a lot of that youth, plus future picks, on a truck that could have brought Erik Karlsson or Ryan McDonagh. He didn’t, and he ridded himself of Marian Gaborik’s salary in the process.

San Jose made the strongest move in the Pacific Division when it got Evander Kane from Buffalo. Kane was available all season because of the Sabres’ wretchedness and his own reputation for clubhouse dissent. The Sharks only owe Buffalo a first-round pick if they sign Kane, which they are unlikely to do, and that’s in 2019 anyway. If Kane becomes a free agent Buffalo only gets a second-rounder.

The Ducks will say they won the trade season early when they swapped Sami Vatanen for the eternally useful Adam Henrique. On Monday, they signed Chris Kelly, late of the Canadian Olympic team, and then traded the versatile, fast Chris Wagner to the Islanders for 38-year-old Jason Chimera, who scored 20 goals last year but only two this season.

Perhaps they feel Chimera can flame up and score like Steve Thomas did in 2003. Meanwhile, Kelly and Antoine Vermette can reminisce about their days with the 2007 Senators, who lost to the Ducks in the Cup Final.

Meanwhile, Patrick Maroon joined the burgeoning Ducks alumni association in New Jersey, which got him from Edmonton for a third-round pick. That’s not a high price for Maroon’s malevolence, his passing skills and his finishing prowess, but the Ducks preferred to rent elsewhere.

With all that, the Kings entered Monday night two points out of the playoffs, as the storm nears. No time to abandon the foundation.

PARIS — Poiret, the French fashion house famous for freeing women from corsets, will rise from its ashes this week after a 90-year hiatus.
The label is set to unveil its first designs by artistic director Yiqing Yin on Sunday at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs here. Yin, who previously belonged to the elite club of Paris couture designers, has put her own brand on hold to focus on her debut collection, which she unveiled exclusively to WWD ahead of the March 4 show.
She has been working on the project for 12 months, setting up a 20-person studio in a Paris district full of government offices.
“Having a year to work on a first collection is truly quite a rare luxury. It allows you to think through the project, to study, to experiment and to work with a sort of instinct, too,” said the quietly spoken designer, surrounded by racks of clothes ranging from cozy oversize knits to floor-sweeping pleated skirts.
The Poiret trademark was acquired in 2015 by Shinsegae International, a division of the South Korean retail conglomerate that imports foreign brands and distributes them through its department stores.
It has its own premium labels, such as Vidi Vici and Man on the Boon,

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PARIS — Introducing a sobering spin on the concept of limited edition, Lacoste has partnered with the International Union for Conservation of Nature on a run of polo shirts embroidered with 10 critically endangered species and limited in quantities to the exact number of featured animals remaining on Earth — 1775 in total.
Dubbed Save Our Species, the shirts, which sport stylized drawings of each animal embroidered in the same green yarn as the Lacoste crocodile logo, will go on sale immediately after the house’s show on Wednesday. They will be available on the brand’s digital “flagships” in the U.S. and Europe, priced at 150 euros.
The polos will not feature in the show, but the last 10 looks of the collection will be themed around each of the endangered species. The house is yet to confirm which of those looks will be commercialized.
The species featured are: the Burmese roofed turtle, the northern sportive lemur, the Javan rhino, the kakapo parrot, the cao vit gibbon, the California condor, the Saola, the Sumatran tiger, the Anegada ground iguana, and the vaquita or Gulf of California porpoise.

A Lacoste Save Our Species polo shirt. 
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All proceeds from the collaboration will go to the IUCN, which is billed

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The so-called Beast from the East or Burian polar vortex sweeping in from Russia blanketed Rome with snow on Monday, creating havoc in the Italian capital where schools were shut down and incoming traffic via railroad and by air was delayed by hours, but the press preview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” took place as scheduled at the city’s Baroque Galleria Colonna. The exhibition will juxtapose fashion and masterworks of religious art so that patrons will consider fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.
“In Italian fashion, religion has always had a strong influence on creativity and the imagination, reflecting its importance to our history and culture,” said Donatella Versace, who is supporting the exhibition and attended the preview with Vogue editor in chief and Condé Nast artistic director Anna Wintour. “Catholicism was part of my upbringing, as well as that of my brother Gianni. Religious festivities formed the backdrop of our daily lives, and we were inevitably inspired by the power of their symbols and imagery. Over the years, Catholic icons have embellished many of our groundbreaking collections, appearing on prints and in embroideries and handcrafted, gemlike

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