LOS ANGELES – The Sharks sure know how to close out lengthy road trips.
In the fifth and final game of another cross-country trek, San Jose erased a two-goal deficit and got past its bitter rival the Kings at Staples Center on Tuesday night, 5-3.
As is becoming commonplace when the Sharks need a momentum shift, captain Joe Pavelski turned the tide. The Sharks’ leading scorer netted a pair of third period power play goals to go along with an earlier helper, while Joe Thornton continued to emerge from a dreadful scoring slump by the future Hall-of-Famer’s standards with one goal and two assists of his own.