The Sharks play in Staples Center tonight for the first time since eliminating the Kings in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season. The game will be on NBC Sports, which presumably means the national audience will get a chance to listen to Randy Hahn tonight. Also so will Kings fans, which is hilarious.
San Jose didn’t skate this morning, unsurprisingly, but the Sharks will go with the same lines as last night. That includes starting Martin Jones in both halves of a back-to-back; which, yes, is a mistake.
Sharks Projected Lines
Joe Pavelski – Joe Thornton – Patrick Marleau
Joonas Donskoi – Logan Couture – Joel Ward
Mikkel Boedker – Chris Tierney – Melker Karlsson
Micheal Haley – Ryan Carpenter – Kevin Labanc
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun
Paul Martin – Brent Burns
Brenden Dillon – David Schlemko
Aaron Dell
Martin Jones
Kings Projected Lines
Dwight King – Anze Kopitar – Trevor Lewis
Tanner Pearson – Jeff Carter – Tyler Toffoli
Dustin Brown – Nic Dowd – Devin Setoguchi
Marian Gaborik – Nick Shore – Jordan Nolan
Derek Forbort – Drew Doughty
Jake Muzzin – Alec Martinez
Kevin Gravel – Tom Gilbert
Peter Budaj
Jeff Zatkoff
As many of you know, Fear the Fin is an independent site run by Sharks fans for Sharks fans. Help keep Fear the Fin independent by contributing to our