SAN JOSE – Fights, scrums, a stirring comeback and tons of objectives.
Thursday evening’s recreation between the San Jose Sharks and Nashville Predators at SAP Middle definitely didn’t lack leisure worth.
However the ultimate consequence was simply one other loss for the Sharks.
After the Sharks erased a three-goal deficit within the second interval, Fedor Svechkov’s power-play aim on the 8:16 mark of the third proved to be the game-winner because the Predators earned a wild 6-5 victory to brush the home-and-home sequence between the 2 groups.
Mikael Granlund had three assists, and Mario Ferraro and Nikolai Kovalenko had two factors every for the Sharks, who allowed three power-play objectives en path to shedding their fifth straight recreation.
Sharks goalie Yaroslav Askarov allowed six objectives on 38 photographs as he confronted the Predators, who drafted him eleventh total in 2020, for the primary time since San Jose acquired him in August.
San Jose trailed 5-2 after Predators ahead Steven Stamkos scored a power-play aim on the 7:07 mark of the second interval. However the Sharks responded with objectives from Henry Thrun and Fabian Zetterlund, with Zetterlund’s aim on the 13:54 mark reducing Nashville’s result in 5-4.
The Sharks had been then awarded a five-minute main on the 14:13 mark of the second interval, as Predators ahead Cole Smith was assessed a match penalty for what seemed to be a excessive hit on Ty Dellandrea, who left the sport with an upper-body harm and didn’t return.
Macklin Celebrini scored 1:08 later to tie the sport 5-5. The aim, his fifteenth of the season, tied a crew document set by Jeff Friesen throughout the 1994-95 season for many objectives in a season by a Sharks 18-year-old.
The Sharks wanted a response after a surprisingly gradual begin towards the Predators, who, on Tuesday, erased a 5-1 San Jose lead and earned a 7-5 win.
The Sharks, doing an excessive amount of standing round, trailed 3-0 within the first recreation’s first 6:53 as Gus Nyquist, Tommy Novak, and Filip Forsberg all beat rookie goalie Yaroslav Askarov.
Then, the fireworks started.
Sharks alternate captain Luke Kunin shortly dropped the gloves with Smith on the 6:54 mark. Proper after the following faceoff, Barclay Goodrow fought Nashville winger Michael McCarron on the 6:56 mark. Two seconds later, Ty Dellandrea had a fast scrap with Zachaery L’Heureux.
That’s three fights in 4 seconds.
That introduced the Shark Tank crowd to life and injected some vitality into the Sharks, who regarded like a distinct crew from that time ahead.
Walker Duehr, a waiver declare by San Jose on Wednesday, scored his aim of the season on the 8:12 mark, with Ferraro and Kovalenko getting the assists. Then, on the 16:34 mark, Ferraro scored his career-high fifth of the season off assists from Mikael Granlund and Timothy Liljegren.
The Sharks got here into Thursday with a 0-10-1 document in final 11 video games towards the Predators, with their final win towards Nashville approaching Nov. 9, 2019.
