In Los Angeles Sunday night, Martin Jones made 26 saves to backstop the visiting San Jose Sharks to a 2-1 win over the Kings.
“Yeah, I mean we’re not going to win 7-6 games very often. That’s just kind of how we play. We don’t play a very pretty style of play. We make it tough for other teams to play in our end. We’re physical, we get pucks deep and we grind in [the offensive] zone, so those are the types of games that we have to win,” Jones said of the win. 
Joel Ward struck late in the final frame for the game-winner for the Sharks.
“That’s a more typical Kings-Sharks game, and it’s nice to be on the right end of it,” Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said. “It was a gritty, gutsy effort.”
The Kings’ lone goal came from a power play marker by Dustin Brown.
“We just pulled back and we weren’t attacking as much as we did in the first couple of periods,” LA’s Anze Kopitar said. “They were able to capitalize on that, but it was just a couple of fluky goals, really.”
The lack of a 60-minute effort left the Sharks hanging around long enough to find the winner late.
“I thought we needed to play 60 minutes tonight,” Kings head coach John Stevens said. “I thought we played 20 really well and then 40 the way they wanted to play.”
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Jonathan Quick made 31 saves in taking the loss.
The Kings dropped to 11-4-2 with their second straight home loss.
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