After being eliminated by the Los Angeles Kings in their last two postseason appearances, the San Jose Sharks finally got their revenge by taking their first-round series in five games with a 6-3 victory on Friday.
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One man especially happy to see the Kings fall was Sharks forward Logan Couture, who sounded off on the two-time Cup champions after a three-assist performance.
"Throughout the last couple of years, things have been said by players on that team that to me, personally, I take it as disrespectful," he said, according to Greg Beacham of The Associated Press. "So it was nice to stick it to them and beat them in this series.
"Even this series, someone was saying on their team that they had us right where they wanted us. I wonder if they've got us where they want us now? So it was nice beat them."
Couture was referring to comments made by defenseman Drew Doughty, who alluded the pressure was on the Sharks after Los Angeles won Game 3 - drawing parallels to 2014 when the Kings came back from a 3-0 series deficit against San Jose to advance to the conference finals.
The Sharks now await the winner of the series between the Anaheim Ducks and Nashville Predators, currently locked at two games apiece. With one win versus each club, San Jose sported a disappointing 2-5-0 record against their potential second-round opponents during the regular season.
