End of first period

By Rich Hammond on October 12, 2008 6:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

It's scoreless.

The Sharks outshot the Kings 8-6 and had the better of the chances. In a couple of cases, with Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar, the Kings appeared to have decent scoring chances but waited too long to shoot. The Kings killed two penalties and are now 8-for-8 on the PK this season.

So far, cheers for the Ice Girls, boos for Blake.

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
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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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