Thursday, February 19, 2015

Pool Preview of Saturday's Stadium Series Game

You didn't think we were done with the special events already, did you?  No, we have one more outdoor game to speak of this season and since the Stadium Series game was a hit at Dodger Stadium last year, the State of California earned themselves another one, this time at Levi's Stadium, the home of the San Francisco 49ers.

In this year's game, we'll see the San Jose Sharks play host to the Los Angeles Kings and we should be in for a treat this weekend.

The forecast for the marquee game on Saturday night is still rather warm, but it sounds like the NHL is all over working extra hard to make sure that the game is being played.  The warmer weather didn't hurt the game last year, so they certainly have some precedent to work from.

16 teams in the pool have players playing in this year's Stadium Series game and there is a total of 23 players being represented in the pool as well.  Stacey M. leads all pool teams with three players going, while Cam, Troy, Brenda & Seward, Brian and Allan all have a couple of players each.

Player Name Team P Draft
Antti Niemi SAN 57 Allan Scott
Joe Pavelski SAN 53 Cam Wagner
Logan Couture SAN 51 Ryan Miller
Joe Thornton SAN 51 Stuart Greenley
Jonathan Quick LOS 51 Grant Saskiw
Brent Burns SAN 44 Cam Wagner
Jeff Carter LOS 43 Troy Berkley
Anze Kopitar LOS 42 Brenda Farrell
Patrick Marleau SAN 42 Dale Bradley
Tyler Toffoli LOS 36 Grant K.
Drew Doughty LOS 33 Clayton Corley
Marian Gaborik LOS 32 Stacey McDonald
Justin Williams LOS 28 Mike Somerville
Jake Muzzin LOS 26 Stacey McDonald
Tomas Hertl SAN 22 Stacey McDonald
Justin Braun SAN 19 Brian Towers
Marc-Edouard Vlasic SAN 17 Benson Greenley
Alec Martinez LOS 17 Brenda Farrell
Brayden McNabb LOS 17 Brian Towers
Tanner Pearson LOS 16 Tony Dourado
Melker Karlsson SAN 16 Troy Berkley
Mike Richards LOS 15 Allan Scott
Martin Jones LOS 14 Derek Wyllie

Scoring in the table above is from Wednesday morning, so it may not be the most accurate, but it will still give you an idea of where the pool points have come from between these two teams.  

The two teams are pretty close in the standings, heading into the weekend, with the Sharks carrying a narrow lead in and the pool points give a pretty solid indication that it should be the case too, especially given the numbers from the starting goalies and the rest of the pool points out there.

We'll likely have a quick recap of the game on Sunday morning, with pool points and everything!

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