Kings trying to stay in first

By Matthew Kredell on November 3, 2007 7:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

and it's not going well so far. Frolov gets a penalty for hooking a minute in and the Sharks score on the power play. Joe Pavelski knocked a one-timer past LaBarbera off a pass from Joe Thornton on a bang-bang play. Can't blame this one on LaBarbera. Johnson was the closest to Pavelski but didn't come up on the play.

Some good news: This is the best looking attendance I've seen in a while. Upper level is full. Lot of empty seats across from me in loge, though.

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
@inlandnewspapers.com.

Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews
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