No surprises or changes coming out of today’s morning skate. Jonathan Quick gets the start in goal, and according to reports, the Sharks seem to be leaning toward going back to Antti Niemi. Lots of talk, on the Kings’ side, about improving faceoff percentage tonight. More notes and quotes to come…

If the Kings are looking for someone to rally around, emotionally, they might cast an eye toward Ryan Smyth, who has played a team-high 90 career playoff games. In fact, he’s got a wide lead, as Michal Handzus is second in that category, with 69 games. Smyth has been to the playoffs 11 times, including [...]

It’s a bit jarring to think that, of the 24 players on the Kings’ active roster, only six had been born when Daryl Evans scored the winning goal in the “Miracle on Manchester” playoff game against Edmonton in 1982. Did a little bit of (massively delayed) playoff karma come back to the Kings last night? [...]

After practice today, Matt Greene shared his thoughts on how and why he thought Game 3 got away from the Kings, plus his mindset going forward… GREENE: “They’ve got a skilled team. That’s when they do their best damage, is when it’s run-and-gun, playing like that and taking chances. That’s not our game. We can’t [...]

A couple of the Kings’ more veteran defensemen spoke today about what went wrong in Game 3 and how to correct it. First up is Willie Mitchell, who know something about overcoming playoff adversity. In 2003, Mitchell played for the Minnesota Wild, which became the first team to rally from 3-1 series deficits twice and [...]

After Game 3, Terry Murray was adamant that he did not consider pulling goalie Jonathan Quick from the game, and Quick was the first goalie off the ice in practice today, negating any thought that he might not start Game 4 tomorrow night. Still, Quick did allow six goals in Game 3, including five in [...]

It’s fair to say that those who had never watched Dustin Penner before could learn everything they need to do by watching Game 3. Penner had a brilliant pass to Michal Handzus for the Kings’ first goal, a play that most players wouldn’t even be able to attempt, never mind complete. Then, in the next [...]

Given the circumstances — a series deficit, coming off last night’s stunning Game 3 collapse — the Kings seemed to be in relatively good spirits today. There was no mass exodus from the locker room after practice, as players seemed comfortable lingering and answering all questions from reporters about what happened last night and how [...]

Terry Murray repeatedly referred to last night’s game as “embarrassing” for the Kings but joined his players in publicly attempting to put the game behind them as soon as possible. Not surprisingly, it was unanimous that the Kings’ problem was their tendency to get away from the system and have the game turn into a [...]

The Sharks are having a limited practice this afternoon, but all the Kings’ men are on the ice this morning, with the regular line combinations. More updates from practice to come…

Some notes from last night’s game… – The Kings fell behind in the first-round series with a 6-5 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night at Staples Center. – The Kings trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven series, with Game 4 to be played Thursday night at Staples Center. – All-time, when trailing [...]

The Kings’ nightmare night was a dream for the San Jose Sharks, who took a 2-1 series lead last night with their comeback victory. The Sharks, clearly having pleased their coach, will have only a limited practice this afternoon. Here’s how last night’s game was covered by the San Jose Mercury News, followed by some [...]

Quite obviously, the mood on one side after last night’s game was quite different from the other. Dustin Brown spoke in the otherwise dead silence of the Kings’ locker room, while the Sharks celebrated their win down the hall. There’s no better way to present the difference than on video, so here are the postgame [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading… Kings lose to Sharks 6-5 in overtime The Kings are scheduled to practice tomorrow at noon at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) MURRAY: “That’s as bad as it gets in the second period, for sure. I’m only going to talk about this for a very brief time here, because you could go a lot of different ways with this. You give them credit, I think. They scored a power-play goal.They are [...]

Matt Greene’s postgame thoughts… (on where the game got away from the Kings…) GREENE: “The second period. I think the whole thing. They had a great period, and we made some mistakes. We also gave it to them. We gave them that period. I thought they made some good plays, but we did everything we [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) QUICK: “It’s one game. The goals don’t carry over to the next game. You move on.” (on how the Kings can put this game behind them…) QUICK: “It’s easy. It’s one game. That’s all it is. One game.” (on the defensive breakdowns…) QUICK: “It’s from the net out. [...]

Rob Scuderi’s postgame thoughts… (on when the game got away…) SCUDERI: “I just thought it was the first 10 minutes of the second period. We got the goal right away. That’s great, but I thought after that we had a lot of immaturity in our game, not doing the same things that we did in [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) BROWN: “We had a good first (period), but it’s the playoffs and we didn’t do the things that made us successful in the first two games and the first period. We didn’t get the puck in deep. We mismanaged the puck and they made some good plays. A [...]

The Sharks won the game 3:09 into overtime, as Patrick Marleau took a long stretch pass from Niclas Wallin, skated into the Kings’ zone and found Devin Setoguchi skating into the play. Setoguchi whipped a wrist shot past Quick to end the game.