Joe Pavelski

SAN JOSE, Calif. The Sharks did the necessary thing Tuesday night. They turned a best-of-seven series into a best-of-three. With momentum. And of course, it wasn't easy. Against the Los Angeles Kings, the Sharks are following a pattern. They tend to...

addCustomPlayer('1pa1wyvorp5ui15bbnkmaphgbl', '', '', 600, 418, 'perf1pa1wyvorp5ui15bbnkmaphgbl', 'eplayer15'); SAN JOSE — Neatly framed but almost forgotten, a front page from the San Jose Mercury News sits against the wall in a room above the...

No one had to tell the Kings they were struggling on the power play. With only two goals through the early part of the playoffs, production had slipped from the regular season and the team was searching for answers. Mike Richards figured that he and...

At the start of overtime Saturday night, the ambience inside HP Pavilion was maybe 50 percent impending excitement and 50 percent impending doom. Basically, it was a feeling that an entire playoff series might hinge on what would happen in the next few...

The Sports Xchange By Ross McKeon, The Sports Xchange Sharks 2, Kings 1 (OT) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Logan Couture's power-play goal at 1:29 of overtime gave the San Jose Sharks a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 3 on Saturday night at HP...

Overtime Sharks center Logan Couture blasts a shot from about 10 feet past Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick on a power play 1:29 into overtime to give San Jose a 2-1 win in Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series on Saturday night at HP...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Sharks 2, Kings 1 (OT) Sharks 2, Kings 1 (OT): Logan Couture scored a power-play goal 1:29 into overtime as host San Jose climbed back into its Western Conference second-round series against fifth-seeded Los Angeles. The sixth-...

The Sports Xchange Sharks break through against Kings SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Logan Couture spent most of the second period in the locker room with an injury. But he made it back in time to save the San Jose Sharks' season. Couture's first career...

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The Sharks played half the game on guts Saturday night. But they finished in style. Down several players at various points of the game, they wound up finally finding the right formula on the power play _ in the game's first two...

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Logan Couture put the Sharks right back into their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series Saturday night with a power-play goal to give San Jose a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. The win now gives the Sharks the chance to...

SAN JOSE -- The answer is: the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 1975 New York Islanders and the 2010 Philadelphia Flyers. The question is: Which NHL teams have overcome 3-0 deficits to win a best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series? The San Jose Sharks,...

LOS ANGELES _ Two power-play goals by the Los Angeles Kings 22 seconds apart with less than two minutes to play turned a bad day for the Sharks into a miserable one. First, the NHL suspended left wing Raffi Torres for the rest of this series. Then,...