Joel Ward, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Justin Braun were out there for all of it.
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“It’s a great message to our players, that he’s come as advertised”, DeBoer said. “We showed a lot of character as group by not letting that spiral”.
“We play Friday, so we get ready for Friday”, Sutter said.
Los Angeles Kings’ Kyle Clifford, left, fights with San Jose… But his performance during the preseason has mollified concerns that he’s just a flash in the pan who played well behind a stellar team defense with the Kings.
After allowing the first goal of the game Martin Jones begun to settle into a groove against his old team. Jones stopped 19 of 20 shots.
“I don’t think L.A.is the type of team that runs around”. “It means a lot, but it can’t change anything about the player I am or what my game is going to be like”. “We feel good with our team and with each other in here”. The St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers all have designs on moving to LA, which has not had an National Football League franchise since 1995. The lone Kings’ goal was scored by Nick Shore, just 1:49 into the game.
“Obviously, it’s not the way you want to start a game”, Jones said. It could have easily done that. At 9:43 of the opening period, Joe Thornton converted a three-on-one break to tie the score.
Most game recaps will focus on Joe Pavelski leading the way with his three point night and how the game got out of hand late with a few extra curriculars.
Burns increased the margin to 3-1 by converting a pass from Pavelski and firing a rocket past Quick at 6:07 of the second period.
Then, with less than two minutes remaining in the third period, Kings winger Milan Lucic took a big hit from Couture, then chased Couture across the ice and hit him into the San Jose bench.
Pavelski was phenomenal in his first game since having the “C” for captain added to his jersey this season. “We just kept sticking to our plan”. “This is Wednesday, tomorrow is Thursday and we play Friday”.
NOTES: An announced crowd of 18,238 attended…. As a member of the Boston Bruins, it would have been hard for Jones to come back and haunt the Kings unless the teams met up in the Stanley Cup finals.
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I mean, his play in net has been a huge part of the franchises’ two titles earned in the last five seasons. Fitzgerald participated in the Sharks’ training camp last month as an undrafted free agent and played well enough to land a deal. Hopefully I can have that same kind of game tonight. Ben Smith and Dylan DeMelo are the healthy scratches tonight for the Sharks, as Matt Tennyson is on the third defensive pair with Brenden Dillon.
