Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, the Anaheim Ducks (32-10-6, 70 points) and San Jose Sharks (25-17-6, 56 points) take the ice for the fifth and final meeting against each other this season live from the SAP Center in San Jose. The game can be live streamed for free here. Anaheim fans can hear all of the action on KLAA 830 while San Jose fans can do the same on KFOX 98.5.
Anaheim has won six games in a row entering tonight while San Jose is 2-2 entering the fifth game of a lengthy seven-game home stand.
The Ducks sit atop the Pacific Division and are in front in the race for the Presidents' Trophy with 70 points while the Sharks are in second place in the division, but would have to make up a lot of ground to unseat their opponents.
San Jose has taken three of four games from Anaheim thus far this season, including notching a 3-0 victory over them on New Year's Eve.
The Ducks are coming in off of blanking the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 on Tuesday in a win that saw them continue the dominance they had heading into the All-Star break.
"We definitely started right where we left off," Ducks center Ryan Kesler said via NHL.com. "You are a little worried about that coming back from the break but I thought we played a full 60 minutes."
Kesler (13 goals, 18 assists) and Corey Perry (19 tallies, 12 helpers) are tied for second on Anaheim with 31 points thus far this season. Captain Ryan Getzlaf leads the Ducks with 50 points and is tied for third in the NHL with 35 assists while he also has 15 goals.
The Sharks had a long rest and are coming into their first match in eight nights after topping the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 last Wednesday prior to the All-Star break.
Joe Pavelski (24 goals, 18 assists) and Logan Couture (18 tallies, 24 helpers) are tied atop the San Jose scoresheet with 42 points this season. Joe Thornton is second on the Sharks with 37 points by way of finding the back of the net 10 times and adding 27 assists.
In net, San Jose is set to turn to Antti Niemi and he is 19-11-5 with a 2.57 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage.
Anaheim is expected to counter with Frederik Andersen and he ranks second in the NHL with 27 wins while adding a 2.24 GAA and a .919 save percentage.
Two division rivals meet for the final time in the regular season when the puck drops on the Ducks and Sharks live tonight from the SAP Center in San Jose.
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