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Purdy: Sharks' Joe Pavelski proves captaincy more than just a title

LOS ANGELES -- Joe Pavelski is 5-foot-11 and weighs 190 pounds.

Anze Kopitar is 6-foot-3 and weighs 224 pounds.You don't need to be a physicist to know how it's supposed to turn out if the bigger man is banging and leaning on the smaller man as the smaller man is skating behind the net -- in some of hockey's toughest territory -- and trying to escape the bigger man.But with Pavelski, the Sharks' captain, defying the laws of physics is just another way to spend a fun night out in Southern California. Seventeen seconds into the third period here Thursday night with the score tied at 3-3, Pavelski scrummed out a faceoff win against Kopitar, the Los Angeles Kings' world class centerman.