LOS ANGELES - Captain Joe Pavelski scored his third goal in two games, Martin Jones made 27 saves and the San Jose Sharks took a 2-0 series lead on the Los Angeles Kings with a 2-1 victory in Game 2 on Saturday night.
Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks, who largely dominated their California rivals in their second straight road victory.
Jones made several key stops against his former Los Angeles teammates and hung on after losing his shutout bid on Vincent Lecavalier's power-play goal with 5:01 to play.
Jonathan Quick stopped 21 shots while losing to his former backup again.
Neither team has forgotten the Kings lost the first three games of their first-round series with San Jose in 2014, only to win four straight.
Game 3 is Monday night at the Shark Tank.
This is familiar territory: The Sharks went up 3-0 on Los Angeles in the first round in 2014, only to become the fourth team in NHL history to blow that lead when the Kings roared back.
While the Sharks' core is largely the same, the addition of several complementary players and coach Peter DeBoer suggest things could be different this year.
The Sharks led the NHL with 28 road victories this season, and they've snagged two more at Staples Center. But now they've got to go back to San Jose, where they were a sub-.500 team.
Pavelski was dominant in the series opener, scoring on the Sharks' first shot before adding the go-ahead goal early in the third period. He scored on the Sharks' first shot again in Game 2, slipping it through traffic past Quick, his U.S. Olympic teammate.
When Los Angeles took simultaneous penalties in the second period, Couture scored during 5-on-3 play after Quick got far out of position.
The Kings struggled for offense despite a boost from the return of Marian Gaborik, who missed the past two months with a knee injury. Top goal-scorer Tyler Toffoli was shut out again, and top scorer Anze Kopitar made little impact as the Sharks largely confined the Kings to the perimeter of the ice.
Lecavalier finally ended the Kings' 77:41 scoreless stretch with a rebound goal, but they couldn't equalize with Quick pulled in the final seconds.
Gaborik had missed 29 straight games since Feb. 12, but he returned to the Kings' starting lineup for Game 2. The Slovak scorer had a phenomenal postseason in 2014, contributing 14 goals on the way to his first Stanley Cup title.
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Antoine Roussel felt like a certain Pittsburgh Penguins star after scoring a strange but crucial goal Saturday night.
"I was trying to kick it in back on my stick, and (it was) just perfect," the Dallas Stars forward told reporters following a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild in Game 2 on Saturday night. "Looked like a Crosby goal or something."
Roussel was credited with the opening goal of the game after the puck caromed off his skate, then off Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk and in, as the netminder lifted the net off in an attempt to keep the puck out.
Related: Roussel's trick shot could be the strangest goal scored this season
"I wasn't sure it totally crossed the line, but I had a feeling it might get reversed," Roussel said.
It was ruled no goal on the ice, but that call was indeed overturned by the NHL's Situation Room in Toronto.
Related: Dubnyk sounds off on controversial Roussel goal
"(Dubnyk) just pushed the net off, and in that circumstance, that (was) good for us and that was a big goal for us," Roussel said.
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On a play that was originally waved off by on-ice officials, Dallas Stars forward Antoine Roussel was credited with a miraculous goal after video review, helping the Stars grab a 2-1 win and a 2-0 series lead over the Minnesota Wild.
Related: Roussel's trick shot could be the strangest goal scored this season
With some arguing the goal was kicked in, and others arguing the net was knocked off its moorings before the puck crossed the line, goaltender Devan Dubnyk was understandably frustrated with the ruling.
Devan Dubnyk on Dallas' first goal: "It's not worth the fine for saying how I feel." #MNWild
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"The ref made the right call," Dubnyk fumed, according to Brian Murphy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "He waved it off. You tell me how they came up with that. It's crazy."
One positive for the Wild came in scoring the team's first goal of the series - coming off the stick of Marco Scandella with under eight minutes remaining - but some long-awaited offense isn't going to soften the blow of the Roussel marker for Dubnyk.
"I'm not even going to talk about it," the netmidner added, per Chip Scoggins of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "It's embarrassing. It's amazing. It's the playoffs.
"The puck is kicked in and somehow they have enough to overturn the ref's call," he continued. "It's mind-blowing that that's the outcome of that play."
Game 3 is scheduled for Monday at 8:30 p.m. ET in St. Paul, Minn.
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Steve Mason is owning up to his mistake.
The Philadelphia Flyers goaltender took full responsibility Saturday night after allowing Washington Capitals forward Jason Chimera to score a 100-foot goal that held up as the winner in Game 2.
Related - Watch: Steve Mason allows goal on 100-foot deflection by Jason Chimera
"I tried to put it to the corner. I messed up," he told reporters, according to the Courier-Post's Dave Isaac. "(I) can say it over and over again, ‘It’s a bad goal.’"
Flyers captain Claude Giroux wasn't concerned about having to say the right thing to his netminder after the goal that ultimately put Philadelphia down 2-0 in the series.
"Mase bailed us out so many times. I’m not too worried about that," Giroux said.
Mason allowed four goals on 23 shots in the 4-1 loss Saturday, after conceding the only two goals of Game 1 in a 2-0 defeat Thursday night.
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The Washington Capitals are feeling pity for the Philadelphia Flyers. This, of course, is not a good look for the Flyers.
After backing up his Game 1 shutout with a dazzling 41-save performance in Game 2, Braden Holtby admitted that he lamented seeing Steve Mason - his goaltending counterpart - let in a goal from center ice.
"I couldn't even watch the replay of it," Holtby said of Mason's blunder, according to Stephen Whyno of The Associated Press.
"You never want to see it as a goalie." he added. "As a competitor, you don't want to see it."
Defenseman Karl Alzner shared in that sentiment, saying carefully: "You feel bad, kind of, for the other team. Not so much in the playoffs."
Holtby, meanwhile, has stopped better than 98 percent of the shots he's faced in the series. And he's been perfect from the red line out.
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After a disappointing 4-1 Game 2 loss that saw goaltender Steve Mason allow a goal from 100 feet away, Philadelphia Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol knows his team needs to pick up their game, as they now sit in a 2-0 series deficit.
"We've got our butts on the line and I think that's a pretty comfortable spot for this group," Hakstol said, according to Sports Illustrated's Alex Prewitt.
The first-year coach saw his team make an incredible late-season run to grab the final Eastern Conference wild-card spot, winning 25 of their final 44 regular-season games.
They'll now need a similar run to knock off the Presidents' Trophy winners but Hakstol noted "confidence on our team is not an issue," according to CSN's Jen Daniels.
After Mason's major gaffe, Hakstol would not say whether he would stick with the 27-year-old in goal for Game 3, according to ESPN's Joe McDonald.
This leaves a possibility Michal Neuvirth could start against his former team. He made his first career start against Washington in January, making 27 saves in an overtime victory. He has made just one start since March 16, when he suffered a knee injury.
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Gabbo is back.
Marian Gaborik is in the Los Angeles Kings' lineup for Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the San Jose Sharks.
He took part in the pregame warmup alongside Anze Kopitar and Milan Lucic.
The veteran forward was activated off injured reserve before the game after being out since Feb. 12 with a knee injury.
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WASHINGTON - Washington's Braden Holtby made 41 saves, Philadelphia's Steve Mason gave up a goal from 101 feet away and Alex Ovechkin scored on the power play and the Capitals beat the Flyers 4-1 in Game 2 Saturday night to take a 2-0 series lead.
Ovechkin's 37th Stanley Cup playoff goal was as predictable as Jason Chimera's goal from beyond the red line was unexpected. Mason whiffed at the puck on what turned out to be the game-winner.
Related: Steve Mason allows goal on 100-foot deflection by Jason Chimera
The Flyers outshot the Capitals 42-23 and dominated for much of the game, but came up empty as John Carlson scored his second power-play goal in as many games and Nicklas Backstrom added one at even strength late. Jake Voracek scored the Flyers' only goal.
The series shifts to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Monday night.
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