What SJ is lacking is a leader who's tasted success and can instill some belief in the rest of those guys. Thornton and Marleau are not those guys (been part of too many SJ train wrecks). Seems like after L.A. came back, they didn't play like they were sure of themselves, whereas the Kings came into that game like they knew they had it in the bag. I'd attribute a lot of that to Darryl though. What a (bench) boss.
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