Chris Kunitz had a goal and an assist, Teemu Selanne added two assists and Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 41 saves as the Anaheim Ducks edged the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 on Friday night in the season opener for both teams.

The Ducks' Ryan Getzlaf snapped a 2-2 tie when he scored with 13:15 remaining, and Kunitz added a goal moments later. Lubomir Visnovsky pulled the Kings within one with his goal with 5:07 remaining, but that closed the scoring.

Corey Perry and Andy McDonald each scored in the second period for Anaheim.

Anze Kopitar, a 19-year-old rookie from Slovenia, scored Los Angeles' first two goals, also in the second period.

Getzlaf beat new Los Angeles goalie Dan Cloutier high on the glove side from 25 feet to help spoil Marc Crawford's debut as the Kings' coach. Both Crawford and Cloutier, who faced 32 shots in his first game for Los Angeles, came from the Vancouver Canucks.

The Ducks, who dropped the ``Mighty'' from their name and switched their colours from purple and teal to black and orange for this season, won with a lineup strengthened by the addition of defenceman Chris Pronger. The former league MVP and Norris Trophy winner was acquired from Edmonton in a trade.

After Kopitar scored twice in a 2:12-span of the second period to give Los Angeles a 2-1 lead, McDonald tied it at 13:27 of the period.

Selanne, skating in from the left wing, passed across the crease to McDonald, who one-timed the puck past Cloutier on the glove side from 15 feet.

Kopitar, taken 11th overall by the Kings in the 2005 NHL entry draft, gave them a short-lived 2-1 lead when his backhander from the right circle caromed off Giguere's upper body and into the net at 11:26. Cloutier started the play _ and got an assist _ with a clearing pass.

Kopitar's initial NHL goal came when he sliced across the crease from right to left, held onto the puck long enough to shake Pronger, then flipped a shot back into the net.

Perry scored 4:49 into the second period. He skated in from the right, near the goal line and beat goalie Cloutier at close range.

In a busy but scoreless opening period, Giguere turned away 22 shots by Los Angeles while his Anaheim teammates got off just 10 shots against Cloutier in his Kings debut.

Cloutier, however, had to weather a minute and 42 seconds worth of close calls while the Ducks had a two-man advantage that began at 4:48 of the period. He smothered a shot by Kunitz from point-blank range, had a Pronger slap shot bounce off the left post, and blocked several other shots to keep the Ducks scoreless.

After not making the playoffs for the past three seasons, the Kings begin this one with a new general manager, Dean Lombardi; new coach, Crawford; and, among other players who joined them during the off-season, Cloutier, Rob Blake, Patrick O'Sullivan and Oleg Tverdovsky.

Notes: This was the first time the Kings and Ducks had met in a season opener since the NHL expanded to Anaheim in 1993-94. ... The Ducks won the last four meetings with the Kings last season to take the series 5-1-2.