Tomas Hertl scored two targets, Timo Meier had a aim and two assists and the San Jose Sharks beat the Kings 5-0 on Saturday evening.
Jonathan Dahlen and Matt Nieto additionally scored, and Brent Burns and Nick Bonino every had two assists to assist the Sharks win consecutive video games for the primary time in two months.
Cal Petersen had 22 saves for Los Angeles, which was coming off a 4-3 extra time loss at dwelling to San Jose on Thursday evening.
Kings ahead Dustin Brown suffered an upper-body harm within the second interval and didn't return. He was seen clutching his hand as he left the ice. Brown is predicted be out for an prolonged interval, Kings coach Todd McLellan stated. Defenseman Matt Roy left the sport within the third interval with a decrease physique harm and didn't return. The severity of Roy’s harm was not instantly recognized.
Adin Hill had 29 saves in his first look in additional than a month to select up his second shutout of the season and fifth of his profession.
“It was nice,” Sharks coach Bob Boughner stated of Hill’s efficiency. “The large saves he needed to make on the essential instances, he did. I believed he performed the puck very well, knocked down plenty of rims, which allowed us to unfold out.”
Meier scored the sport’s first aim halfway by the primary interval on an influence play, giving him six towards the Kings this season.
“We defended properly. We have been blocking plenty of photographs. We didn’t give them plenty of room on the market,” Meier stated. “Hiller made some unbelievable saves, stood up and stood on his head tonight and performed very well. It’s good to have him again.”
Nieto’s fifth aim gave San Jose a 2-0 lead with simply over eight minutes left within the first, and Dahlen linked on a shot from the slot for his twelfth off an help from Meier after a turnover with 49 seconds remaining within the interval.
“The result just isn't practically as shut as we needed, however they got here out and clearly at 3-0 after the primary interval, that’s an enormous gap to dig ourselves into,” Kings heart Anze Kopitar stated.
Hertl’s power-play aim at 8:05 of the second prolonged San Jose’s result in 4-0. Hertl was close to the crease when he rebounded a shot by Meier that hit the publish and bounced off Kings defenseman Jacob Moverare’s shoulder and slipped a backhander previous Peterson.
Hertl scored with lower than 5 minutes to go within the third to seal the win. He tied Meier for the staff lead with 25 targets.
“I didn’t assume we have been unhealthy to start out with,” McLellan stated. “Even after they scored the ability play aim, I believed it was a reasonably evenly performed recreation. We had some probabilities, Hill made some actually good saves, the back-to-back turnovers under our aim line actually damage our staff, after which they acquired rolling after that.”
Blanked
Hill’s shutout was his first since Oct. 19 towards Montreal. San Jose hadn’t blanked an opponent since James Reimer shut out Chicago on Nov. 28.
Acquainted foes
The Western Convention rivals meet once more Thursday in Los Angeles in what would be the third assembly in eight days between the groups. San Jose improved to 3-0 towards the Kings.
Roster strikes
The Kings positioned ahead Andreas Athanasiou (unspecified) on injured reserve retroactive to March 10. Defenseman Christian Wolanin was recalled from Ontario of the AHL.
The Sharks activated Hill from injured reserve and assigned ahead Ryan Dzingel and goalie Alex Stalock to their San Jose AHL affiliate.
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