Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent It may have taken a second chance for the Sharks to put the Los Angeles Kings away in these playoffs, but they made the most of it on Monday night, beating the Kings 4-3 in overtime on a Joe Thornton tally two minutes in to the extra frame. They were able ...
The setting was pure Hollywood. Game six of a roller-coaster playoff series. A clutch tying goal with 8:21 left in the third period by a rookie fourth-liner. The crowd of 18,118 screaming on its feet throughout a five-minute power play that culminated in a sprawling, dramatic stop of a slot wrister by Captain Canada with ...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In a game combining one part Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, one part J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and one part Dr. Seuss’ One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, the San Jose Sharks amassed a staggering 52 ...
As renowned Las Vegas poker player V.P. Pappy once said, “Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.” After a 6-3 drubbing at the hands of the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night in front of 18,234 dispirited real estate agents and porn stars at the Staples Center, ...
How quickly the worm can turn in the NHL playoffs. On the strength of two goals by last year’s Norris-finalist Drew Doughty, a dominating special teams effort, and 34 saves by Jonathan Quick, the Los Angeles Kings reeled in home ice advantage by defeating the San Jose Sharks 4-0 in game two of their Western ...
Andrew Knoll catches up with the Kings and Sharks between games in San Jose.
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent Game 1 of the Kings-Sharks series is in the books, and in a playoff season that has been dominated by goaltending, the contest was refreshingly offensive in nature. It was a game in which the momentum swung back and forth repeatedly between the two teams, but in the end it was ...
In a game which saw the momentum swing more wildly than a Ben Eager roundhouse punch, the San Jose Sharks capitalized on a Alec Martinez turnover in overtime and scored on a Joe Pavelski wrister from the high slot, beating the Los Angeles Kings, 3-2 Thursday night. With the win, San Jose took game one ...
Giants vs. Dodgers. Fog vs. Smog. Redwood vs. Hollywood. Northern California and Southern California are no strangers to heated battles with each other, and the rivalry continues on Thursday night when the Los Angeles Kings visit the San Jose Sharks in the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. But before the puck drops in ...
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent In a year that saw all three California teams make the playoffs in the same season for the first time, it only seems appropriate that two of those squads will go up against each other. With the Ducks playing Pekka Rinne and the Nashville Predators, that leaves the second-seeded San Jose ...
