SAN JOSE – Defenseman John Klingberg obviously did not want to be a healthy scratch earlier this week when the San Jose Sharks began a four-game homestand. But at the same time, considering how he was playing, it wasn’t a shock to him, either.

“It’s never easy to sit out,” Klingberg said Thursday of being scratched from the Sharks’ game against the Utah Mammoth two days earlier. “But it gives you some time to think and take a step back and then just reevaluate your own game.”

After a conversation with Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky, Klingberg will be back in the lineup for Thursday’s game with the Los Angeles Kings, hoping to take a new approach.

“Limit the obvious mistakes and play the game the right way,” said Klingberg, who had 421 points in 657 career NHL games before Thursday. “Someti

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