From: assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site)
Subject: Re: Sharks lose to Kings 7-1
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:26:17 GMT
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In article <1993Jan27.081558.24821@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> nlu@Xenon.
Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) writes:
>Tuesday, January 26, 7:30 P. M., at the Great Western Forum:
>
>The Sharks were thoroughly embarrassed by the revenge-minded Kings, who
>out-shot them 38-35 but picked up 7 goals to the Sharks' one to snap their
>8-game home winless streak, and to extend the Sharks' winless streak to 14
>games, as the Sharks return home losing all 9 games on the roadtrip.  The
>Sharks picked up a franchise-record 97 penalty minutes, and payed for it with
>four Kings power-play goals.  Jeff Hackett was shaky in goal (but did not
>get much defensive help either), giving up 6 goals on 27 shots, and was
>replaced by Arturs Irbe to start the third period, and Irbe stopped 10 of 11
>Los Angeles shots to close the game out.  Kelly Hrudey, who was not challenged
>early on, nevertheless had a very solid game, stopping 34 of 35 San Jose shots
>for the victory.
>
>After a fight or two broke out and ended early in the first period, the Kings
>found themselves with a power-play, and struck first at 6:51.  After Rob Blake
>and Paul Coffey exchanged passes on the point, Blake let go a shot that went
>off a Shark skate right in front and bounced right to Tomas Sandstrom, who
>quickly poked it past Hackett.  Then came a disasterous 4-on-4 skating
>situation for the Sharks, on which the Kings scored twice.  They made the
>lead 2-0 at 8:09, while a delayed penalty was in effect, when Blake, taking
>a pass from Coffey at center ice, rushed in and beat Hackett with a wrist
>shot; Jari Kurri (who would later leave with a strained wrist) also got an
>assist on the play.  Later on that 4-on-4 situation, Wayne Gretzky, getting a
>pass from Coffey at center, skated in, and dropped a perfect no-look pass to
>Marty McSorley, who blasted the puck through a screen past Hackett.  The Kings
>out-shot the Sharks 14-11 in the first period.
>
>The Kings out-shot the Sharks 13-12 in the second period, but got three more
>goals.  The lead became 4-0 at :47 while the Kings were on a power-play.
>Catching the Sharks off-guard on a line-change, Coffey, after entering the
>Sharks zone, quickly led a pass to Tony Granato, who skated in alone on
>Hackett, beating him easily.  Midway through the period, Sandstrom scored his
>second power-play goal of the game, as he deflected a Lonnie Loach shot past
>Hackett.  Luc Robitaille closed out the scoring in the period when he deflected
>a Coffey point-shot, with Blake also getting an assist on the play.
>
>The Sharks, who out-shot the Kings 12-11 in the final period, finally broke
>the shut-out at 1:49, as it appeared in the third period that both teams
>weren't playing defense at all, as both teams had a number of odd-man breaks,
>but both Hrudey and Irbe were superb at handling them.  Robin Bawa stole the
>puck from Gretzky in the right corner, skated to the slot, and waited for
>Hrudey to commit himself, and then slapped the puck over Hrudey into the net.
>(I'm not sure why Ray Whitney and David Maley would get assists there...)
>Blake later closed out the scoring on the power-play, as Loach, getting a pass
>from Gretzky behind the net in the slot, shot the puck off Irbe's pads, but
>Blake jumped up into the play to poke the rebound past Irbe.
>
>Tonight's three stars:
>
>1.	Paul Coffey
>2.	Rob Blake
>3.	Kelly Hrudey
>

It seems the trade rumors spurred Coffey and Hrudey into action.  Although
he had a little help from SJ's lack of defense, Hrudey played better  
than I have seen in a long time.  And Coffey racked up 5 assists and
looked like he actually WANTED to play hockey for a change.  I still
think some trades will be made by the Kings in the near future but
it seems to have put enough fear into the team to get them motivated
to play all 60 minutes of the game.  However, we will have to wait
and see how they play against Calgary . . .



Kris 
kris@fs2.assist.uci.edu

GO KINGS???

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