Game 1 brought an injury, a suspension and more than 14 minutes of overtime. What’s in store for Game 2? The Kings and San Jose Sharks are back at it, 48 hours after the Sharks’ 3-2 overtime victory in Game 1. On the San Jose side, David Pollak of the San Jose Mercury News had some good stuff today on Ian White, who was injured after Jarret Stoll’s hit in Game 1, along with some good context on why the Sharks weren’t too heavy-handed in their criticism of Stoll. The hardworking Tony Khing of SJSharks.com has a couple items on the series, and they’re followed by tonight’s expected lineups for the Sharks and Kings…
San Jose Mercury News pregame blog item
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SHARKS LINEUP
Patrick Marleau-Joe Thornton-Devin Setoguchi
Ryane Clowe-Logan Couture-Dany Heatley
Torrey Mitchell-Joe Pavelski-Kyle Wellwood
Bea Eager-Scott Nichol-Jamal Mayers
Douglas Murray-Dan Boyle
Marc-Edouard Vlasic-Jason Demers
Justin Braun or Kent Huskins-Niclas Wallin
Antti Niemi
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KINGS LINEUP
Smyth-Lewis-Williams
Penner-Handzus-Brown
Clifford-Richardson-Simmonds
Ponikarovsky-Moller-Westgarth
Mitchell-Doughty
Scuderi-Johnson
Martinez-Greene
Quick
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