<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. — Martin Jones made 32 saves to stymie Los Angeles again, Patrick Marleau scored his 566th career goal and the San Jose Sharks beat the Kings 5-2 on Friday night.</p>
<p>Kevin Labanc, Rudolfs Balcers and Dylan Gambrell also scored, and Brent Burns had three assists to give San Jose its fifth win in six games. Tomas Hertl added an empty-net goal.</p>
<p>But the key to this victory was once again Jones. He beat the Kings for the sixth time this season and has a .933 save percentage in seven games against his former team. He joined Mike Vernon (1997-98 against Anaheim) as the only Sharks goalies to beat one team six times in a season.</p>
<p>Alex Iafallo and Jaret Anderson-Dolan scored for Los Angeles, and Cal Petersen made 24 saves. The Kings have lost seven of nine.</p>
<p>Marleau scored in back-to-back games for the first time since November 2018 when Burns’ centering pass hit his skate and deflected past Petersen to make it 2-1 in the first. Marleau played his 1,762nd career game, five shy of tying Gordie Howe’s all-time record.</p>
<p>That goal was part of a three-goal first period that Jones made stand up with a stellar second that included stops on breakaways by Iafallo and Trevor Moore.</p>
<p>Jones did allow a soft goal from a bad angle to Anderson-Dolan early in the third, but the Sharks held on for the win thanks to a short-handed goal by Gambrell with 3:00 remaining. </p>
<p>SLOW STARTERS</p>
<p>Los Angeles managed to score first for just the second time in seven meetings against San Jose this season when Iafallo was left alone in front to redirect a centering pass from Dustin Brown past Jones.</p>
<p>But that didn’t help the Kings solve their first-period woes as the Sharks scored three times in less than 10 minutes after killing a penalty.</p>
<p>Labanc scored on the rush, Marleau gave San Jose the lead and Balcers scored on a rebound after Timo Meier was stopped on a partial breakaway. It was the first three-goal first period for the Sharks since Nov. 12, 2019, against Edmonton. </p>
<p>The Kings have been outscored by 18 goals in the opening period this season, second worst in the league to Ottawa’s minus-21.</p>
<p>DROP THE GLOVES There were a pair of fights in the second period with San Jose’s Jeffrey Viel squaring off against Kurtis MacDermid in a matchup of enforcers, and the Sharks’ Marcus Sorensen taking on Andreas Athanasiou in a tame fight between unexpected combatants.</p>
<p>Sorensen and Athanasiou then fought again at the final buzzer.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>The teams finish their season series on Saturday night in San Jose.</p>
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