LOS ANGELES – It took until after the Sharks officially eliminated the Los Angeles Kings in five games on Friday night for one of them to finally admit that this first round series had a little extra meaning.
“Throughout the last couple years things have been said by players on that team that to me, personally, I take as disrespectful,” Logan Couture said. “It was nice to stick it back to them and beat them in this series.”
Couture is likely referring to Kings defenseman Drew Doughty’s comments in the 2014 postseason. After the Kings became just the fourth team in NHL history to storm back from a 3-0 series hole, Doughty said weeks later: "You could see it in their eyes and their team and their captains and leaders that they were worried about us coming back.