Game 6 Preview: Los Angeles at San Jose

Los Angeles Kings (2-3-0) vs San Jose Sharks (4-2-0)
Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:30 p.m. PT
SAP Center, San Jose, CA
Referees: #13 Dan O’Halloran, #17 Frederick L’Ecuyer
Linesmen: #91 Don Henderson, #66 Darren Gibbs
FOX Sports West, KABC 790 AM, I Heart Radio

Los Angeles Projected Starting Goaltender – Jhonas Enroth
2014-15: 50 GP (44 GS) / 18-26-2 record / 3.07 GAA / .904 Sv% / 2 SHO*
Career vs San Jose: 4 (2) / 3-0-0 / 1.24 / .956 / 0
Last Game vs San Jose: 4/6/15 / 60 MP / 23-24 shots / 5-1 W
2014-15, Away: 25 (23) / 8-15-1 / 3.44 / .895 / 1*
* First 2015-16 appearance; last year’s stats listed

San Jose Projected Starting Goaltender – Martin Jones
2015-16: 5 GP (5 GS) / 4-1-0 record / 1.18 GAA / .957 Sv% / 2 SHO
Career vs Los Angeles: 1 (1) / 1-0-0 / 1.00 / .950 / 0
Last Game vs Los Angeles: 10/7/15 / 60 MP / 19-20 shots / 5-1 W
2015-16, Home: 1 (1) / 1-0-0 / 0.00 / 1.000 / 1

2015-16 Los Angeles Leaders
Total Points: Tyler Toffoli (3-0=3)
Goals: Tyler Toffoli (3-0=3)
Assists: Jeff Carter (0-2=2), Dustin Brown (0-2=2)
Plus/Minus: Six players tied with even ratings
Penalty Minutes: Andy Andreoff (27; 0-0=0)
Time On Ice: Drew Doughty (27:46; 0-1=1)
Corsi-For Percentage: Derek Forbort (75.0%; 0-0=0)

2015-16 San Jose Leaders
Total Points: Joe Pavelski (2-3=5), Joe Thornton (2-3=5)
Goals: Patrick Marleau (3-1=4)
Assists: Joe Pavelski (2-3=5), Joe Thornton (2-3=5), Joel Ward (1-3=4)
Plus/Minus: Justin Braun (+5; 0-2=2)
Penalty Minutes: Mike Brown (11; 1-0=1)
Time On Ice: Brent Burns (25:58); 1-2=3)
Corsi-For Percentage: Bryan Lerg (66.7%; 0-0=0)

Rankings and Statistics
Goals/Game: LAK – 29 / 1.20; SJS – t-14 / 2.67
Goals Against/Game: LAK – 23 / 2.80; SJS – t-4 / 2.00
Power Play: LAK – 29 / 4.8%; SJS – 20 / 15.8%
Penalty Kill: LAK – t-13 / 84.6%; SJS – t-10 / 85.7%
Shots/Game: LAK – 12 / 30.6; SJS – 10 / 31.5
Shots Against/Game: LAK – 4 / 25.8; SJS – 11 / 28.7
Faceoffs: LAK – t-4 / 52.5%; SJS – 8 / 51.5%
Save Percentage: LAK – 26 / .891; SJS – t-6 / .930
Corsi-For Percentage: LAK – 1 / 62.1%; SJS – t-10 / 52.0%

Los Angeles Projected Lineup

Marian Gaborik – Anze Kopitar – Dustin Brown
Milan Lucic – Jeff Carter – Tyler Toffoli
Tanner Pearson – Nick Shore – Trevor Lewis
Kyle Clifford – Andy Andreoff – Jordan Nolan

Brayden McNabb – Drew Doughty
Jake Muzzin – Alec Martinez
Christian Ehrhoff – Jamie McBain

Jhonas Enroth
Jonathan Quick

Notes and milestones: Los Angeles is 60-58-19 all-time against San Jose, a record that includes a road mark of 22-34-12. Home teams are 26-7-1 in the last 34 regular season games in the series. … Los Angeles is 0-3-0 against the Pacific Division and 2-3-0 against the Western Conference. … With 549 career wins, Darryl Sutter and Marc Crawford are tied for 14th place on the NHL’s all-time wins list. Crawford has coached 1,151 NHL games, while Sutter will coach his 1,127th career game tonight. … Drew Doughty leads all league skaters in average ice time. His 27:46 average is 35 seconds more than Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang, who ranks second. … Anze Kopitar leads all league forwards in average ice time. His 22:21 average is 49 seconds more than Buffalo’s Ryan O’Reilly, who ranks second. … Jordan Nolan is expected to play in his 200th career game tonight.

San Jose Projected Lineup

Matt Nieto – Joe Thornton – Joe Pavelski
Patrick Marleau – Tomas Hertl – Joel Ward
Barclay Goodrow – Chris Tierney – Tommy Wingels
Micheal Haley – Bryan Lerg – Mike Brown

Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun
Brenden Dillon – Brent Burns
Mirco Mueller – Matt Tennyson

Martin Jones
Alex Stalock

Notes and milestones: Lines via Kevin Kurz of CSNBayArea.com … Joe Thornton has 66 points (14-52=66) in 71 career games against Los Angeles. … Martin Jones appeared in 34 games with Los Angeles from 2013-15, going 16-11-2 with a 1.99 goals-against average, .923 save percentage and seven shutouts. Jones posted a Sharks club record 234:33 shutout streak between October 7 and 16. … On this date 17 years ago, San Jose set a club record for the two fastest goals to start a game in club history as Owen Nolan (0:19) and and Joe Murphy (0:47) both scored in the first minute. … This is San Jose’s second home game. Because one game last season was played at Levi’s Stadium, this is only the second time the Kings have played a regular season game at the SAP Center since the teams’ 2014 playoff series, won by Los Angeles in seven games. … Over the last two days, the Sharks recalled forwards Micheal Haley and Bryan Lerg and defenseman Mirco Mueller from AHL-San Jose and assigned forward Nikolay Goldobin and defenseman Dylan DeMelo to the Barracuda.