Following their 6-1 pasting by the New York Rangers on Saturday night, the Sharks limped into Los Angeles on Sunday and took an even worse beating. With 10 games to go in this season of lessons, the Sharks played a disheveled, unmotivated game that resulted in an 8-1 loss that begs the question, why bother?

After impressive wins over Toronto and Boston in the past 7 days, the Sharks settled themselves into what should be the best odds at winning the Draft lottery for the second consecutive year. Drawing to within a point of the Chicago Blackhawks, the Sharks have come back to earth and are alinging with what should rightly be there's. The first overall draft pick this summer.

Los Angeles is still competing for a better position in the Western Conference standings as the playoffs quickly approach. Like the Rangers 24 hours earlier, the Kings are locking into playoff mode and they let the Sharks know it.

A pair of 1st period goals was just the entree. San Jose didn't do themselves any favors in the opening frame by missing on a 2-man advantage that could have made this game more competitive.

The Kings brushed off Cam Lund's 2nd career NHL goal in as many nights by putting 4 pucks past Georgie Romanov in the 2nd period. Penalties Killed the Sharks. Los Angeles converted on 2 of 5 chances to help them runaway with the game.

Mario Ferraro's affinity to spending time in the penalty box setup the first of two Warren Foegele goals.

Foegele would score his 2nd goal with 57 seconds left in the middle period. It's bad enough giving up goals in the last minute of a period, so the Sharks decided to give up another one 35 seconds later.

It was a clear indication that the Sharks threw in the towel. The absence of any defensive initiative was on full display. This was a beaten hockey team trying to get to the off season.

The Kings scored goals 23 seconds apart in the 3rd period when Andrei Kuzmenko and Trevor Lewis beat Romanov late in the period.

San Jose's defense has surrenedered 14 goals in less than 24 hours.

Game Notes:

* The sharks continue to take buckets of penalties that end up being back breakers. san Jose allowed 2 goals to the Kings power play in 5 chances.

* Goaltender Georgie Romanov's goals against average ballooned to 4.99 after giving up 8 goals in the contest. His save percentage also plummeted to .829

* Noah Gregor, Lucas Carlsson, Timothy Liljegren, and Shakir Mukhamadullin all turned in -3 games. San Jose was a combined -25.

* It was one of those nights. The biggest hit laid out by a Shark may have been Cam Lund's contact...on Macklin Celebrini. The two crumpled to the ice after running into each other in the 3rd period.

* The Sharks take a day off on Monday then wrap up their quick jaunt through Southern California on Tuesday when they take on the Ducks at Honda Center.