San Jose, CA (Sports Network) - Milan Michalek registered the game-winning goal in the second period and the San Jose Sharks continued their scorching late-season stretch with a 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings at the Shark Tank.

Mike Grier, Patrick Marleau, Curtis Brown and Brian Campbell all scored for San Jose, which improved to 18-0-2 in its last 20 games and in the process set a franchise record with 108 points this season. Evgeni Nabokov made 16 saves for the Sharks, who last lost in regulation on February 20 against New Jersey and are still alive in the hunt for the Presidents' Trophy for the best record in the NHL.

"I had to remind our team going into the third period there is still some things on the line here," said Sharks coach Ron Wilson. "There is still a remote possibility of winning the Presidents trophy."

San Jose, which already clinched the Pacific Division title, trails league- leading Detroit by three points. The Red Wings have three games remaining and the Sharks have two, both on the road, against these Kings on Thursday and a visit to Dallas on Sunday.

Patrick O'Sullivan and Raitis Ivanans scored for the Kings, who have lost two straight. Erik Ersberg allowed five goals on 34 shots in the loss.

The Sharks broke a 2-2 tie on Michalek's 24th goal of the season with 5:54 remaining in the second period. Joe Thornton shielded two defenders with his body and maintained control of the puck along the rear boards. Thornton then skated behind the net and, from below the right post, sent a pass into the low slot for a successful one-timer by Michalek.

"Every night we expect so much out of each other," Thornton said. "We work extremely hard in practice and it carries over in games."

A pair of late third-period goals -- Brown's wrister from the slot with 3:30 to play in regulation and a power-play tally by Campbell with just over a minute remaining -- completed the scoring.

The only goal of the first period was scored by Grier with 11 seconds to go in the stanza when he put home a long rebound from the inner edge of the right circle.

Shortly after O'Sullivan's short-handed breakaway tally 57 seconds into the second knotted the contest, San Jose regained its lead at the 2:03 mark with a power-play goal. Jeremy Roenick was checked to the ice but quickly got up and tipped the puck into the high slot, where Marleau's one-timer flew past Ersberg.

Less than five minutes later, LA tied the score at the 6:56 mark of the middle session on Ivanans' fifth goal. Alex Frolov held control deep in the zone and skated behind the net before he slid a pass into the goal mouth, where Ivanans redirected it into the back of the cage with a snap shot from the top of the crease near the left post.