— The Kings’ five-game road winning streak ended. It was their longest road winning streak since a five-game streak from Oct. 29-Nov. 14, 1984. The Kings haven’t won six road games in a row since a franchise-best eight-game road winning streak from Dec. 18, 1974-Jan. 16, 1975. The Kings have had road winning streaks of at least five games only four times infranchise history.

— The Kings were unable to buck a trend on Thursday night, after beating Anaheim on Wednesday. Nine previous times this season, the Kings had played games on back-to-back nights, but they had swept both games only once, against Minnesota and Colorado on Jan. 20-21. The Kings play four more sets of back-to-back games this season.

— Erik Ersberg made his first start in goal since Jan. 17 and stopped 36 of 40 shots. The Sharks outshot the Kings 40-32. The Kings have allowed 40 or more shots in five games this season. Two of those games have been against the Sharks.

— Michal Handzus scored a goal. Handzus also won 14 of 20 faceoffs. Handzus has three points in his last four games and broke a six-game streak without a goal.

— Alexander Frolov scored a goal. Frolov has three goals and four assists in his last six games.

— Dustin Brown had an asssist. Brown has two goals and four assists in his last four games.

— Jarret Stoll had a team-high six shots on goal.

— The Kings went 1-for-4 on the power play and the Sharks went 1-for-5 on the power play. In their last four games, the Kings have scored nine power-play goals and allowed six power-play goals.

— Anze Kopitar was held without a goal. The Kings are 13-1-2 when Kopitar scores a goal and 36-16-8 all time when he scores a goal.