LA Kings Flashback: 2014 Reverse sweep of the San Jose Sharks

LA Kings Flashback: 2014 Reverse sweep of the San Jose Sharks

We look back on one of the greatest moments in LA Kings history when the Kings put a reverse sweep on the San Jose Sharks. That and more on this edition of Locked on LA Kings. You are Locked on Kings. Your daily podcast on the Los Angeles Kings, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Hey Kings fans, welcome to Locked on LA Kings, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Thanks for making Locked on LA Kings your first listen every day. We are free and available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. I’m Eddie Garcia, your host of Locked on LA Kings. I’ve worked in sports media for the past 30 years. Also one of the co-hosts of the Puck Podcast, a weekly NHL review show now in its 20th season covering the NHL and a passionate LA Kings fan for over 30 years. Today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use the code locked on NHL for $20 off your first purchase. Well, if you watched or listened to our first ever edition of Ask Eddie, a show where you got to ask me any question you wanted, you may have heard me talk about my interest in history. And in this show, I get to combine a couple of my interests, history, and hockey. And today, we have for you a Kings flashback. On this show, we’re going to look back not only at a great moment in Kings history, but a significant moment not only in NHL history, but in sports history as well. For those of you that are old enough to remember it, I hope this brings back some good memories. For those of you that not not old enough to have maybe witnessed it in person, hopefully this will educate you a bit on again a moment in Kings history and sports history as well as today we remember the Kings reverse sweep. And I’ll be honest, I don’t know when the term reverse sweep was coined or invented. I don’t really remember hearing it growing up at all. But maybe part of the reason for that is because it doesn’t happen very often. As a matter of fact, in the three major North American sports leagues that use a playoff series in their postseason, the NHL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball, it’s only happened five times ever. So, what is a reverse sweep? Well, that’s when a team goes up three games to nothing, pushes their opponent to the brink of elimination, only to see that opponent then win four straight games to capture the series. It has never happened in the history of the NBA. It has happened once in the history of Major League Baseball. 2004, Boston Red Sox are down three nothing against the New York Yankees. They win four in a row, take the series, go on to snap the curse of the bambino and win their first ever World Series title in 86 years. And it’s happened four times in NHL history, and the last team to do it, our Los Angeles Kings. So, let’s take you back to the year 2014. The Kings had won their first ever Stanley Cup two years before. The next season, lost in the Western Conference Finals to the Chicago Blackhawks. And in 2014, they were looked upon as a pretty serious contender for the Stanley Cup. Maybe not the favorite, but certainly a team that was capable of winning another cup. Kings and Sharks were meeting in the playoffs for the third time in five years. They had a good rivalry going between Northern California and Southern California. We’ll talk a little bit more about that later. And the previous year, the Kings beat the Sharks in a game seven in the conference semifinals thanks to a couple of Justin Williams goals. So, not only were these teams meeting again in the playoffs in a short amount of time, but they had just played a series that went seven games the year before in which the Kings were able to come out victorious. So, the rivalry was at its height uh at this time. And in 2014, again, Sharks looking for revenge from the year before. Kings were the three seed out of Pacific, the Sharks the second seed out of the Pacific division, and they would hold home ice advantage in this first round matchup. So, let’s get to game one of the series. is it’s in San Jose and the home team came out very strong scoring three unanswered goals in the opening period. Joe Thornton, Komas Hurdle, Patrick Marlo all able to get the puck past LA goalie Jonathan Quick and the Sharks had a three nothing lead after the first period. Second period, more of the same. Rafi Torres makes it four nothing. And then defenseman Mark Edward Vlic scored on the power play. It’s 5 nothing Sharks after two periods. Jonathan Quick gets pulled. Martin Jones who would later go on to be a Sharks goalie in net. Kings tried to mount a comeback. They scored three straight goals. Couple of defensemen, Jake Muzin and Slava Voyov scored and then Trevor Lewis made it 5-3 with about six minutes left in regulation, but Brent Burns would put a puck in an empty net and the Sharks would skate off with a pretty convincing 6-3 win in game number one. As for game two again in San Jose, uh better start for LA as they jumped out to a two- nothing lead. Jake Muzin and Trevor Lewis scoring goals for a second straight game. two nothing Kings out of the first period. However, the Sharks would come back strong in the second period to reclaim the lead, getting goals from Mike Brown, Rafi Torres, and Justin Braun. And now it’s 3-2 San Jose after two. It was all Sharks in the third period. Four unanswered goals. Patrick Marlo, Joe Pavvelski, Logan Couture, and Joe Thornton scoring on the power play. The Kings allowing four goals in a span of 10 minutes and 6 seconds. They would lose the game 7 to2. Jonathan Quick did not get pulled in this one. He allowed all seven goals. And in the first two games of the series, Quick had allowed 12 goals and the Kings suddenly found themselves down two games to nothing. But I remember at the time thinking, “Okay, those are not two great starts.” But the Sharks held serve on their home ice. Now they got to go to LA for the next two. But obviously two important games for the Kings. So, on to game number three in Los Angeles. A crucial game for the Kings. And this one would be close throughout. Sharks would strike first on a Brent Burns power play goal. Led one- nothing after one. Jared Stole would tie it up with a power play goal of his own. The Kings uh would even it up at 1-1. That would be the score after two periods. Marian Gabri scored the his first playoff goal as an LA King and that would start a great postseason for him. Uh, and that would give the Kings a 2-1 lead, but the Sharks tied it up on a goal by Long Beach native Matt Needto. We’ll talk more about him a little later. So, we were tied 2-2 after two. Third period, Jeff Carter’s power play goal in the opening seconds of the period made it 3-2 Kings, but San Jose would a answer on a Tomas hurdle goal. We were tied 3-3 going to sudden death overtime. And unfortunately for the Kings in overtime, it would be Patrick Marlo scoring the goal to end it. Uh, Sharks win crucial game three, four to three in overtime and now hold a commanding 3 0 series advantage. The Kings are on the not only on the brink of elimination against their Northern California rivals on the brink of being eliminated from the playoffs, but being swept out of the first round of the playoffs uh in in a postseason where you thought they were pretty serious contenders for the Stanley Cup and now uh they don’t look good to say the least. and goalie Jonathan Quick. Now, he did play much better in game three, but he certainly did look shaky in two of the three games leading up to this point. And certainly the Kings as a team did not play nearly as well as we had come to see them play over the last couple of postseasons. So, as a Kings fan, uh not feeling great at this point about how this series has gone to say the least. Um, but at this point it was just like avoid the embarrassment of being swept out of the first round of the playoffs by your Northern California rivals. Win game four at the very least. Save some uh face and and don’t get embarrassed by getting swept out of the first round. This kind of where we were, I think, as Kings fans when LA was down 3 nothing to the San Jose Sharks in the opening round of the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs. However, the Kings would mount a comeback. We’ll get to that next on Locked LA Kings, your team every day. We’ve all been there, logging on early and waiting forever for concert tickets to go on sale, only to lose your spot for a show you’ve been dying to see. 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Download the Game Time app today. Last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. All right, so we continue our Kings flashback episode looking back to a great moment in Kings history. And we’re in 2014, first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Kings are taking on their rivals, the San Jose Sharks, and they are down three games to nothing going into game number four, potentially the final home game of the season for the Kings. If they lose, the season is over and they are swept. Obviously, it’s do or die for the Kings in game number four. How would they respond? Pretty well. Uh, striking first for the first goal of the game, Marian Gabri would give the Kings a one- nothing lead. However, James Shepard would even things up. We were tied 1-1 after one. In the second period, Justin Williams came up with two big goals. Tyler Tofoley would score a third, while San Jose’s lone goal came from Matt Neito. But the Kings had a 4-2 lead after two periods. In the third, Marian Gabri scored his second of the game to make it 5-2. Joe Pavvelski added the Sharks final goal, but the Kings get a 53 victory as Dustin Brown sealed it with an empty net goal. The Kings avoid the sweep. They stay alive and they send the series back to San Jose with a 6-3 win. Yes, they’re still down three games to one in the series, but again, you’ve avoided the sweep. you’ve at least taken that possibility off the board and you’ve forced the Sharks to play at least one extra game back in their building. In game number five, again, another must-win for the Kings and San Jose saw LA take a two nothing lead in the first period. Goals from Tyler Tully and Andre Kovitar’s first of this postseason. Second period, Jeff Carter’s power play goal made it three nothing and Kings goalie Jonathan Quick would make it stand up with a 30 save shut out. And suddenly the Kings had won back-to-back games. They extended the series to a sixth game and were headed back to Los Angeles. And you thought, all right, okay, maybe there is still some hope. A crucial game six. You knew the Sharks did not want to have a game seven even though it would be on home ice and you knew the Kings did not want to have their season come to an end at home and it wouldn’t. Uh Justin Williams would score the only goal of the opening period. Kings had a one- nothing lead after one. James Shepard would tie it up for San Jose with a lone goal of the second period. We were tied at one after two, but it was all LA in the third period. Justin Williams scoring his second of the game in route to going on to be named the KMIT trophy winner. But at that time, we could have not even dreamed that that was going to be the case. We were just hoping to force a game seven. Uh but fourth of the series for Justin Williams. Andre Kopitar scored not one but two goals, the final one into an empty net to seal it. And the Kings had even the series at 33 to force a deciding game seven. Jonathan Quick had put those early issues behind him and it turned aside at that point 59 of the last 60 shots that he saw in wins in game five and game six. And that set the stage for a game seven. And yes, it’s a oneame winner take all. And yes, the Sharks had home ice. But if you were around to witness what was going on in this series, there was no doubt that all the momentum had shifted. There was no doubt that the Sharks were feeling the pressure. Understanding that not only could they have, you know, blown a three nothing series lead. Not only could they kind of go down in the history books as one of only four teams to have blown a 3-0 playoff series in NHL history, losing embarrassingly to your rivals and losing for a second year in a row in game seven. The pressure was all on the Sharks. Now, we would have a scoreless opening period. In the second period, though, it would be the Sharks scoring the first goal of the game. 28 seconds into the period, Matt Irwin would score. However, the Kings would respond. Drew Dowy with a power play goal ties it in an Kopitar with maybe the biggest goal of the series to give the Kings the 2-1 lead after two. And here are the Sharks 20 minutes away from epic chokers. Uh, frankly, um, the building, the Shark Tank in San Jose, uh, very, very tight. Uh, the fans not, uh, able to really let loose the way they wanted to because they were thinking, “Oh no, I can’t believe this may be about to happen.” In the third period, Kings controlled the game. Tyler Defoy scored early to make it 3-1. felt like it would take a monumental comeback at that point for San Jose to pull themselves off the deck and they weren’t going to do that frankly against Jonathan Quick. Uh he would not allow a third period goal while Dustin Brown and Tanner Pearson would score into empty nets and the Kings complete the comeback. They beat the Sharks in San Jose in game seven 5 to1, becoming the fourth team in NHL history and the fifth team in sports history to complete a reverse sweep. You lose the first three games, come back, win four in a row for the Kings, winning a game seven on the road, which would be part of their history as they went forward. Of course, you didn’t know it at the time. And after allowing 12 goals in the first two games of the series, Kings goalie Jonathan Quick allowed two goals on 100 shots over the final three games of the series. Talked about Justin Williams, he had two game-winning goals in the series. He would go on to be the playoff MVP as the KMT trophy winner. And uh also, interestingly enough, the man behind the bench for the Sharks, Todd Mlen, certainly never could have saw this coming at the time, but he’d go on to be the coach for four seasons of the LA Kings six years after losing game seven to Los Angeles. So, the Kings would kind of use this historic comeback as a little bit of a blueprint on their way to capturing their second Stanley Cup title in franchise history. Uh, and the second title in three years at the time. Not only did the Kings beat the Sharks on the road in a game seven in the next series, they would eventually beat the Anaheim Ducks in the first ever playoff matchup between those two franchises and the only one uh to this point in a game seven on the road at the uh the pond there in Anaheim. And then in the Western Conference Finals, they beat the Blackhawks in a game seven on the road. This one in overtime to make it back to the Stanley Cup finals. So, the first ever team to win three consecutive road game sevens in Stanley Cup playoff history. It all started with that game seven victory over the San Jose Sharks. Of course, the Kings would eventually go on to beat the New York Rangers. That one was a little bit different. Didn’t go seven and the Kings actually held him advantage for the only time in the postseason in the Stanley Cup final. But, uh, that was the start of it. That reverse sweep, the big comeback against the Sharks, winning game seven on the road. That was just the start of a historic run for the LA Kings to capture their second Stanley Cup championship. Up next, we’ll get a Sharks perspective on one of the greatest moments in Kings history. It’s one of the well, not the greatest moments in Sharks history. JD Young, the host of Locked on San Jose the Sharks will join us to talk about not only the King Sharks rivalry, but his memories of that reverse sweep at the hands of the Kings. That’s next on Locked in LA Kings, your team every day. Ever check your bank account and wonder where did all my money go between dining out, online shopping, and entertainment? It’s easy to lose track. 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Now, I don’t know how old you are exactly, but I’m guessing you haven’t been a Sharks fan since day one of the franchise, but how long have you been a Sharks fan? How long have you followed the team? Uh, I followed the team. So, actually, I grew up on the East Coast as a Flyers fan. My mom from Philly. I grew up as a Flyers fan. I was around uh I was six when the Sharks came into existence here, but I grew up as a Flyers fan. It wasn’t until I moved to the Bay Area around 2000. Uh, and then the like Thornton Marlo days, like the early Thornton Marlo days, is really what hooked me in. Uh, and yes, I’ve been a Sharks fan since the early 2000s. And, uh, it’s been a very much uh, a lot of, uh, very exciting moments followed by a kick in the balls. Uh, is the best way to describe Sharks experience because, uh, that’s what happens. uh you get your hopes up and then come playoff time, something horrible happens. And I know we’re going to talk about one of the most horrible moments to ever happen to Sharks fans. Uh and I’m sending you my therapy, Bill, Eddie. Uh multiple sessions for this. So, yeah. So, you can certainly speak to the best and the worst moments in Sharks history. We’re talking about some of the best moments in Kings history. And I I take a deep breath. We’re going to take you back to 2014, the playoffs, first round. Sharks Kings meeting in the playoffs. San Jose was second in the Pacific that year. LA was third. Uh Sharks won the first two games pretty easily. They edged out the Kings for game three and had a 300 series lead. Do you recall how you were feeling after the Sharks were up 3 nothing in that first round series. Uh extremely excited. I will never forget uh Pier Lebron. I think he was working for the ESPN at the time. Uh, he famously wrote, “I’m leaving, I’m going to go cover another series. This thing is over.” I felt the same way. I was like, “They’ll probably Kings will probably get one just because it’s the Kings, right? And the Sharks can never make things easy.” But I I was already looking ahead. Who are the Sharks going to play? Look in the road to the playoffs here. I thought this thing was over. It was not, Eddie. No. And I remember, you know, thinking, “Wow, we’re going to get swept out in the first round by our Northern California rivals. Great.” I mean, why even show up, you know? Yeah. Uh but I I decided, okay, look, and I think this is got to be the same mindset as the players. Forget about you can’t win four and one, just win one. Just extend it. Don’t get swept. So, they win game four. Okay, we’re still alive. Then they shut out the Sharks in San Jose in game five and you’re kind of like, “Okay, I’m not saying we’re back, but all right.” And then a 4-1 win in game six and suddenly it’s now a best of one. Now it’s in San Jose. And I kind of think a little bit this year for us with the Kings, we beat the Oilers two in a row, then we lose three and four, losing leads in the third period. And we tried to convince oursel for game five. It’s okay. They’ve won two, we’ve won two, we’re even. It’s the best of three. And two of the three are at home. That’s what we tried to tell ourselves, but in our heart, we didn’t believe it. So, I got to think as a Shark fan, it’s game seven, you’re at home. Once it got to game six, I was really worried. And then, yeah, game seven, I was like, this team is going to continue to do what this team does, uh, and screw up in the playoffs. And that was always the thing with the Sharks, right? It was like how talented this team is. You have Thornton, you have Marlo, you get like Danny Heatley, you get all these great players and they still can’t freaking figure it out. Uh, and that you felt the exact same way going into game seven. is just like what have we we are now going to be the laughing stock of of of the NHL. Uh because how do you come back from it? How do you come back from being reverse? It’s I mean it’s been 10 year 10 plus years and I still get the reverse sweep jokes. Uh and I still can’t even think about it. And again, I’m sending you to my therapy bill, Eddie. This is horrible. Why would you do this to me? Well, I did want to get the other side of it, the other perspective. uh especially since it’s it’s kind of a a rival team obviously. But it’s funny um my wife actually has a relationship with Matt Needto’s family who played for the Sharks. Long Beach native as we always know as Kings fans because every time we played the Kings, they had to mention that like five times. Oh, Randy Han. Uh there’s a famous drinking game. Uh hearing Randy Han say Long Beach native for Shark. So yes. Well, we had the same drinking game. How about that? Um, I was able to talk to him uh the summer after that series and and he and I asked him about it and he said, “Yeah.” He’s like, “You know, we we didn’t it wasn’t like we didn’t think we could win, but we knew we felt the pressure of how embarrassing that would be to be reverse swept.” And so, we went into that game, you know, as confident as we could, but once things started to turn, you just felt and the in the building, I’m sure you felt it, right? you’re like, “Oh my god, this is going to happen.” But so game seven comes along, Matt Irwin scores the first goal of the game to give the Sharks a one- nothing lead. And that was there was a scoreless first period. So in the second period, you got a one- nothing lead. So you’re like, “Okay.” Then Dowy tied it with a power play goal. And then Kopitar gives them a two-1 lead going into the third. So you’re like, “Next goal is going to decide it.” Tied it. Yep. And and former king now Shark Tyler Tofoley with the crucial goal to make it 3-1. Then a couple empty netters. Dustin Brown, Tanner Pearson, and that was it. 5-1. Kings win it, becoming the fifth team in NHL history to rally down three nothing to win a playoff series and the last team to do it. So, every time somebody goes up 3 0, you get to hear them mention the Kings or the Sharks uh in a playoff series. Um, it’s one of the greatest things in Kings history because not only was it a historic turnaround, but it was the first step onto winning a Stanley Cup. So, not only do they, you know, have this incredible moment in a series on itself, but it led to winning another Stanley Cup. So, it obviously takes on added significance in that way. Um, but you had told me before we started, go ahead and share what you told me before we started talking about how tough of a loss that was. It was so brutal of a loss. I basically quit hockey for a year. Like I I by the end I did go to like the next year was the outdoor game at at Levi Stadium uh between the Sharks and the Kings and I did go to that because it was such a like kind of once in a lifetime type of thing. But it was it was just so hard to get back in like it took it took all like a full year of just like trying to bury it deep inside of you to try to get back to the thing that you love. Right. I mean because like we both love our teams, right? You know, and like that’s why we do this and that’s why we like you keep coming back. No matter how many times they hurt, you keep coming back. But this one was tough. This was by like this worse than than the Stanley Cup loss like to the Penguins. Worse than the the uh the Blues just headshotting their way to a championship and that team just running out of gas. Like this one still hurt the most because one, it’s your rival, right? uh with and like the Sharks Kings rivalry at that time was one of the pinnacles of hockey of just like how two these two teams went after each other. Uh I mean like I would I was working at Target at the time and like seeing a dude in a Kings jersey like literally got me angry at the time. I’d have to go into like the break room uh like watching this dude walk around in a Kings jersey. Um but yeah, it was it was it was really tough. And I know I’m not the only one at Sharks fan. There was a lot of Sharks fans. I mean, the team itself took basically took the next season off and didn’t make the playoffs that year. And they used that year to kind of reload. They got Team Omire and they reloaded and of course uh went to the Stanley Cup final against the Penguins where they of course lost because that’s what the Sharks do. But it was it was easily the worst time to be a Shark. That was way worse than what the Sharks have gone through the last, you know, few years as part of this rebuild where they’ve been the literally the worst team in the NHL the past couple seasons. Still worse, the reverse sweep and just having to deal with that. Uh, and then like you said that path to the to the final where like it felt like if the Sharks had won that like if they had completed the sweep, if Blastic doesn’t get get a concussion and he’s still in the series if Sharks fans, myself included, are going to keep telling ourselves if Blastic’s in there, they’re going to they finished off that series. But you see the path that the Kings took and it’s very much that could have been us. That could have been us. No matter what, we would have had our one Stanley Cup. wouldn’t hear the where’s your cups jokes etc etc. Uh so yeah uh terrible terrible year. Well at the time for for those who are around um you’re right it was I think it was four times in six years something like that where the Kings and the Sharks met in the playoffs. It was it was a really really good rivalry at the time. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen it in a while and we’ll see how long it takes before we see it again. But yeah, for for a time there, it was a really really strong rivalry between the Kings and Sharks and and and it was two and two, right? It was it’s always makes for a better rivalry when you actually like there’s no rivalry with us and the Oilers right now. I mean, they own us, you know, so that’s not a rivalry. But with the Kings and Sharks, it was I think the Kings won two and you guys won two. So, it was a a back and forth and that makes the better rivalries as well. Yeah, I mean, of course, we had the jumbo slide coming out of it, like that kind of monkey off the back moment right there for the Sharks. Uh, I was actually I was at one of the games where uh it was in LA. I think it was game three. Uh my friend and I went uh very much hostile environment and it was uh Sharks were winning like two to one late and then Vlic gets a puck over glass and then uh there was like another penalty becomes a five on three and the Kings just score a bunch of goals at the end there to take the win and I remember leaving uh Staple Center at the time and I thought I was going to get punched in the stomach but uh that’s what makes that’s what makes great rivalry is uh that yeah again uh when both teams are that even and it’s actually both teams win. So, uh I can’t wait. I actually can’t wait for California hockey to be great again. The Ducks are on their way and the Sharks not too too far behind hopefully here in the next couple years that we can have that California gauntlet where teams are fearful to come uh come through California again. So, it won’t be long, Eddie. It won’t be long. That’s what I need to tell myself. Please. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I’m I’m GL I’m glad you didn’t literally get punched. Maybe figuratively uh in that uh game seven, but uh certainly it doesn’t need to be literal violence there. It’s no need for that. But JD, uh thanks for good being a good sport and sharing some of your thoughts about the King Sharks playoff matchup back in 2014. Uh thanks Eddie again. Uh where can I send that co-ay? Locked on Sports Network. Sounds good. That’ll do it for today’s show. Hope you enjoyed that look back at one of the greatest moments in LA Kings history, the reverse sweep of the San Jose Sharks in 2014. For you every day is those you’d listen and watch Lock Kings every day. Coming up on our next show, we are scheduled to be joined by LA Kings broadcaster and host Josh Schaefer. Is he going to be the next voice of the LA Kings? We’ll ask him and see what he says. And of course, we’ll also have our Kings fan feedback show coming up at the end of the week as well. If you want to get an email in for that and talk about anything regarding the LA Kings question, comments, uh, send the emails to locked on Eddiegmail.comdie. If you’re watching on YouTube, we always welcome your comments in the comments section. We’d love for you to stay interactive with the show on social media, x, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok. We’re at Lockdown LA Kings. And if you’re interested in getting some more coverage of the Kings and helping to support me, send me an email to la [email protected] and we’ll give you more information on that. I’m Eddie Garcia. Thank you for listening and watching Locked in LA Kings, part of Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Have a great rest of your day. We’ll talk to you next time and as always, go Kings go.

In this “Kings Flashback” episode we look back at one of the greatest moments in Kings history, the revers sweep of the San Jose Sharks in the 2014 first round of the playoffs in route to the Kings second Stanley Cup title. J.D. Young, the host of Locked on San Jose Sharks also joins to discuss that series and the Kings/Sharks rivalry.

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