Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Sharks lose to Kings 11-4
From: jmarold@netlink.cts.com (Jeff Marold)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 22:15:22 PST
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nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) writes:

> Sunday, November 8, 7:30 P. M. at the Cow Palace:
> 
> Goalie Arturs Irbe, making his first NHL start this season, was not
> particularly sharp; the defense didn't give Irbe much help; and the Kings
> offensive machine, lead by the Luc Robitaille-Jari Kurri-Tomas Sandstrom line
> was totally on; all of these led to an 11-4 Kings rout over the Sharks, handi
> the Sharks their second loss in as many nights.  The Kings peppered 49 shots
> on Irbe, while Robb Stauber stopped 36 of 40 San Jose shots for the victory.
> The 11 goals by the Kings tied the record of most goals scored by a San Jose
> opponent, and the 15 goals combined by the teams also set a Sharks record.
> 
> The Kings out-shot the Sharks 17-13 in the first period, but took advantage
> of shakiness by both Irbe and the Sharks defense and got on board quickly.
> Robitaille opened the scoring at 1:33.  Sandstrom had the puck at the left
> boards, and sent it out into the slot to Kurri, who deflected it right to
> Robitaille on the right side of the net, and Robitaille poked the puck by Irb
> The lead became 2-0 at 3:21 on the power-play.  Paul Coffey and Sandstrom
> exchanged passes behind the net, and Sandstrom spotted Kurri right open in
> front and center the puck to him.  Kurri had little problem one-timing the
> puck by Irbe.  Corey Millen added another goal at 8:52.  Mike Donnelly, getti
> a pass from Tony Granato at center ice, brought the puck into the Sharks zone
> and dropped the puck for Millen, who blasted the puck through a screen past
> Irbe.  Robitaille made the game 4-0 at 9:51 on a rather stupid play by the
> Sharks and a brilliant play by Sandstrom.  Sandstrom was streaking down the
> right side, attracting two Sharks defensemen, and he needled the pass through
> the Shark defense, leaving Irbe exposed to a 2-0 break, and Robitaille poked
> the puck by Irbe.  The Sharks finally got on the scoreboard at 16:19.  Marty
> McSorley was trying to clear the zone, but the puck bounced off Dean Evason's
> skate at the left point right to Lyndon Byers, who immediately centered to an
> unguarded John Carter, who poked the puck past Stauber.
> 
> The second period was more of the same story, as the Kings just continued the
> offensive onslaught, but only out-shot the Sharks 16-13.  Robitaille made the
> lead 5-1 at :52 on the power-play, as he deflected a shot from Rob Blake, who
> one-timed a Kurri pass, past Irbe.  A short-handed goal at 4:26 by the Kings
> made it 6-1.  Robitaille stole the puck from Ed Courtenay at the Kings blue
> line, and went on a 2-on-1 with Kurri, feeding Kurri with a cross-ice pass,
> and Kurri had little problem beating Irbe.  Sandstrom then struck on the
> power-play at 11:58.  Kurri and Robitaille had been fighting with Sharks for
> the puck at the right boards, and the puck skipped to Sandstrom behind the
> net.  Sandstrom tried to center it in front, but the puck bounced off Kelly
> Kisio's skate past Irbe.  A similar goal at 16:05 gave the Kings an 8-1 lead.
> A Darryl Sydor shot, off a Granato pass, had gone wide behind the net, and
> Donnelly, trying to center it in front, bounced the puck off the back of Irbe
> and into the net.  The Sharks got just one goal in the period, at 18:31 while
> killing a penalty.  Sydor had gone to the back of the Kings net to try to sta
> the power-play, and Mike Sullivan checked him hard, poking the puck away, and
> centered it right in front to an unmolested Dave Snuggerud, who beat Stauber 
> the glove side to cut the lead to 8-2.
> 
> That lead became 8-3 when Kisio struck on the power-play.  Courtenay had the
> puck at the left boards, and he sent a pass to the left point to Neil
> Wilkinson, who one-timed his pass.  Stauber stopped Wilkinson's shot, but Kis
> was right in front to poke the rebound by Stauber, at 10:45.  However, the
> Kings then struck for 3 unanswered goals.  Kurri completed his hat trick at
> 11:33, as he one-timed a Sandstrom pass from behind the net past Irbe.  Then,
> at 12:56, Donnelly, right off the faceoff, took the puck and skated right in
> unmolested on Irbe, and beat Irbe to the right corner.  Donnelly completed hi
> hat trick at 15:22 on a 4-on-4.  Blake had sent the puck to him behind the
> net, and as Donnelly tried to return it to Blake, it went off Irbe's stick in
> the net.  To close out the scoring, at 15:55, a hard-working Pat Falloon, who
> was denied on several good chances, got a rather fluky goal to extend his goa
> scoring streak to three games.  Right off a faceoff at center, Wilkinson sent
> the puck to Johan Garpenlov, who went into the zone with Falloon and sent it
> to the right side to Falloon.  Falloon attempted to center it right back to
> Garpenlov, but the puck bounced off Dave Taylor's skate, eluding Stauber and
> going into the net.
> 
> Tonight's three stars:
> 
> 1.	Luc Robitaille
> 2.	Jari Kurri
> 3.	Tomas Sandstrom
> 
> Tonight's lines:
> 
> Johan Garpenlov		Brian Lawton		Pat Falloon
> Larry DePalma		Kelly Kisio		Ed Courtenay
> Perry Berezan		Mike Sullivan		Dave Snuggerud
> John Carter		Dean Evason		Lyndon Byers
> 
> Tonight's defensive pairings:
> 
> 		Jayson More		Rob Zettler
> 		Doug Wilson		Doug Zmolek
> 		Pat MacLeod		Neil Wilkinson
> 
> Scratches:	Jeff Hackett (groin), Petri Skriko (groin), Jeff Odgers (hand),
> 	Yvon Corriveau (back), Dale Craigwell (back), Sandis Ozolinsh (back),
> 	Link Gaetz (auto accident), David Bruce.  Ozolinsh has a sore back, and
> 	is day-to-day, along with Skriko and Craigwell.  Hackett and Corriveau
> 	are expected to miss two more weeks, while Odgers would miss 3-5 weeks.
> 
> Notes:
> 
> 1.	The Robitaille-Kurri-Sandstrom line might very well be the best in
> 	the world right now.  (Yes, I am ready for CMU/PSU flames. :-))  This
> 	line appeared to be incapable of making mistakes, either offensively
> 	or defensively, tonight.
> 
> 2.	The three hat tricks tied a Kings record.  Robitaille's third goal
> 	was his 300th of his career, and Kurri's 3rd put him past Jean
> 	Beliveau on the all-time scoring list.
> 
> 3.	The Sharks were plain ugly defensively tonight, but Irbe did not help
> 	his own cause, as he had trouble handling rebounds, and often the
> 	rebounds would go to Kings forwards.
> 
> 4.	Ozolinsh was sorely missed tonight.
> 
> 5.	Perry Berezan returned after missing the past 5 games with a pulled
> 	groin muscle.
> 
> =============================================================================
> "M. C. Hamrlik: Can't Touch This Lightning."
> GO LOS ANGELES KINGS!  Luc Robitaille for Hart!
> GO SAN JOSE SHARKS!  Sandis Ozolinsh for Calder!  Jeff Hackett for Vezina!
> =============================================================================
> Nelson Lu (claudius@leland.stanford.edu)
> rec.sport.hockey contact for the San Jose Sharks

Does it seem like scoring has returned to 1982 levels? Didnt someone beat 
the Senators 13-3? It'd be interesting to calc the avg goals per game...

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