By Pearl Allison Lo

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

LOS ANGELES– San Jose Sharks’ Captain Joe Pavelski scored two power play goals in the third period to complete a 5-3 comeback against the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday.

The Sharks wrapped up the 3-2 road trip with a bow heading into the holidays.

Pavelski had two goals, the game winner in both games at Staples Center this season and both of those goals power plays.

DeBoer stated, “There’s a reason he’s the captain. He was just willing us to win.”

San Jose had five unanswered goals in Los Angeles’s home opener and four in this one.

Both Pavelski and Joe Thornton had three point nights.

The 36 shots faced (21 of them in the first, a season-high for the team for a period) and 33 saved were the second-highest total for Sharks goalie Martin Jones this season.

Outshooting, outhitting and outperforming the San Jose on the faceoff, the Kings took the first period early, but the Sharks managed a goal midway through the period.

Pavelski stated, “…every time they pulled ahead a little bit, we were able to get that goal to keep us in the game…”

It was a similar start to the teams’ season opener with an early goal against Jones.

On Los Angeles’s second shot of the game, Tyler Toffoli, the third player to touch the puck off the faceoff, scored through Justin Braun’s legs, as the puck went to the left side of Jones. Tanner Pearson and Jeff Carter got the assists at 1:40.

Then, less than three minutes later, almost right after another faceoff, this one to Jones’ left, Trevor Lewis deflected Dustin Brown’s shot in shortside on the Kings’ fifth shot of the game. Alec Martinez got the second assist at 4:32.

San Jose made it 2-1 on their fourth shot on goal. After Brendon Dillon’s shot, it went to Pavelski and then to Thornton at 12:12.

Less than a minute later, the Sharks’ Tommy Wingels got a double minor.

The second was the power play period with a pair of goals and a sideshow of glass.

San Jose had two power plays less than four minutes apart.

Then the Sharks committed two holding penalties, one for holding the stick.

During the first of those penalties, at 9:07, Los Angeles’s Brayden McNabb’s hit on Matt Nieto caused a section of glass above the boards to pop out.

The goals came at even strength.

San Jose’s Brent Burns lost the puck, which led to a goal as Tanner Pearson passed cross ice to Toffoli at 17:48.

Burns then redeemed himself less than a minute later, as Thornton found Burns along the boards and he scored through traffic from the blue line.

The Sharks’ Melker Karlsson had five blocked shots in the period.

With 14:47 left in the game, Karlsson had a breakaway chance against goalie Jonathan Quick, but was denied.

The two power play goals by Pavelski came as the Kings committed two penalties 39 seconds apart.

Pavelski tied the game 3-3 at 6:06 four seconds after the first penalty, tipping in Burns’ shot.

The second penalty, a slash on Burns by Milan Lucic, was the most controversial in the game. The uproar got louder when Pavelski converted midway into the man advantage. Thornton got the assist.

Regarding coming back to win and special teams play, Pavelski replied, “We know it’s a sixty-minute game…There’s a lot of parts to the power play that need to be well. Entries are one of them, face-offs, and all that type of stuff. We didn’t have it in the first couple [periods] but we stayed with it.”

Burns made it 5-3 on an empty netter with 1:10 left.

Game notes: San Jose now is five points behind Los Angeles. This was the closest game out of the three the teams have played so far this season. Regarding personnel, the Sharks were without Joel Ward again, Karlsson returned and Vlasic, a game-time decision, played a team-high 26:09. After the Winter Break, San Jose starts a five-game homestand, hosting the Colorado Avalanche Monday at 7:30pm.