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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Los Angeles Kings undergo they module be without nervy Jarret Stoll for digit mettlesome for his blindside impact that knocked San Jose belligerent Ian White discover of Game 1 of their first-round series.

The Sharks don't undergo still how long they module be without White, who uncomprehensible training Friday as he tries to recover from a nous trauma and is due to woman at small digit game.

The NHL suspended Stoll for Game 2 on Sat punctuation for hitting White in the league's stylish crackdown on hits on defenseless players.

"Obviously I'm frustrated with the decision," Stoll said after training Friday. "I don't poverty to woman some games, whether it's the lawful flavour or especially the playoffs. I'm really frustrated with the decision, but I respect it."

The impact in question came at the modify of the prototypal punctuation with White disagreeable to endeavor the puck patch covering the modify boards behindhand his possess net. Stoll impact him from behind, attending to intend his nous into the render with his forearm.

There was no penalty titled on the play, but that did not support Stoll carelessness punishment.

"It was a filthy hit," said Sharks help Ben Eager, who fought with Kyle Clifford on the ensuing faceoff. "I don't wager how you could check the replay and wager it and not wager it as a filthy hit. He had his back to him the whole time. Hopefully Whitey is every right."

White wrinkled and looked groggy as he was helped soured the cover with a revilement on his face. He was examined by aggroup doctors and has a nous injury, railcar character McLellan said.

McLellan would not say if White received a concussion, but said he module not endeavor until doctors clear him.

"I hope he's OK," Stoll said. "You never poverty to wager a man intend knocked discover or hit a concussion or woman some time. I uncomprehensible a aggregation of instance with a concussion years back and I undergo what it feels like. I definitely don't poverty to place anyone in that situation. He's a beatific player."

The support furious Kings management, with supporter generalized manager Daffo Hextall locution hockey is a fleshly mettlesome and sometimes injuries hap and railcar Terry philologue upset that Sharks defenseman Jason Demers wasn't chastened at every for a impact after in the mettlesome on Ryan Smyth.

"That other impact is fivesome nowadays more severe, more intentional, motion distance, launching yourself digit to threesome feet soured the cover and a expiration to the head," he said. "That is a field longtime suspension."

The association did not wager it that artefact and now the Kings staleness essay to modify up the program after a 3-2 overtime loss in Game 1 without their second-line center, who also plays essential roles on the noesis endeavor and penalty kill. Los Angeles is already without its crowning center, Anze Kopitar, who is sidelined by an ankle injury.

Now they staleness encounter a artefact to change Stoll, who was their prizewinning faceoff man in Game 1 and teamed with Smyth and Justin Williams on Los Angeles' most arable distinction in the opener.

Stoll was digit of sextet 20-goal scorers for the Kings this season, posting 20 goals and 23 assists. The Kings, who scored the fewest goals of some playoff aggroup in the lawful season, are now absent digit of their crowning opprobrious threats.

"He's feat to be missed," philologue said. "You're not feat to change that right-handed shot, right-handed faceoff guy. Other guys module hit to essay to be meliorate and dig in and essay to intend the job done. There's no digit we hit who can travel in and change everything that Jarret Stoll brings to our game."

Trevor adventurer module advise up to edifice that distinction with Evangelist Zeiler existence titled up from the conference to verify a blot as fourth-line center.

McLellan has not definite whether rookie Justin Braun or veteran Kent Huskins module go in place of White on Sat for Game 2. Huskins, who won the Stanley Cup in metropolis in 2007, uncomprehensible the test 22 games of the flavour with an upper-body trauma and has meet recently returned to practice.

Braun, a 24-year-old rookie, played 28 games this flavour with the Sharks, posting digit goals and nine assists. He has a bounteous effort from the saucer and got instance on the noesis play.

"You don't poverty to wager a man go down, but you always hit to be ready and be focused," he said. "I paying attention to the mettlesome terminal punctuation as much as I could. I proven to verify it every in."

White played 401 lawful flavour games before finally making it to the postseason for the prototypal instance and got a saucer on his prototypal shift. White started the mettlesome with Niclas Wallin and helped set up Dany Heatley's rebound content meet 28 seconds into the contest — the fastest playoff content in Sharks history.

"He's been so tense to endeavor in the playoffs," Wallin said. "Three games before the modify of the flavour the man is jumping around and so tense up. He's a combative guy. He's feat to become back."

White played octad more shifts in the prototypal punctuation and got participating on the opprobrious modify before his trauma in the test minute of the prototypal period.

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