Defenseman scores profitable aim in first recreation in San Jose Sharks uniform

SAN JOSE – Defenseman Lucas Carlsson scored a go-ahead aim with 3:23 left in regulation time to raise the San Jose Sharks to a 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Saturday earlier than a sold-out crowd at SAP Middle.

Carlsson, stationed close to the Bruins’ web, took a cross from Will Smith and chipped the puck previous goalie Joonas Korpisalo for his first aim in his first recreation in a Sharks uniform.

William Eklund additionally scored, and goalie Alexandar Georgiev completed with 22 saves for the Sharks, who snapped a 14-game dropping streak to the Bruins.

Carlsson additionally assisted on Barclay Goodrow’s empty-net aim with 50 seconds left within the third interval.

Carlsson, who was recalled from the Barracuda on Friday and was taking part in his first NHL recreation since Nov. 1, 2022, when he was with the Florida Panthers. Carlsson began the 2023-24 season with the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL earlier than he sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his proper knee in a recreation in Hartford on Feb. 28, 2024.

Carlsson signed a two-year, $1.6 million with the Sharks on July 1, and returned to the ice for the Barracuda on Nov. 16. Carlsson, although, stated he didn’t fairly really feel like his outdated self once more till January. This season, Carlsson has 23 factors in 44 AHL video games, and is getting a shot with the Sharks now with Henry Thrun and Marc-Edouard Vlasic out with accidents.

“It’s one of the worst injuries you can have,” Carlsson stated. “The summer was tough, just rehabbing, and then obviously in camp, trying to get back to where I was and then start playing again. It’s been a tough time, but I’m just happy to be back.”

The Sharks opened the scoring on a rush likelihood on the 2:13 mark of the second interval.

After Luca Cagnoni and Eklund created a turnover within the Sharks zone, Eklund bought the puck to Macklin Celebrini, who carried it into the Bruins’ finish. With three Bruins gamers eying Celebrini, Eklund had some area close to the slot, took the cross from the Sharks’ rookie heart and beat goalie Joonas Korpisalo five-hole for his sixteenth aim of the season, matching his career-high.

The Bruins bought that aim again on the 16:50 mark of the second interval after a Sharks miscue.

Georgiev went behind the web to play a puck that had been despatched into the Sharks’ zone. He handed it to defenseman Vincent Desharnais, who couldn’t deal with it cleanly as his cross supposed for Eklund alongside the boards was deflected by Cole Koepke out entrance to Mittelstadt, who fired it right into a largely empty Sharks web to tie the sport.

NOTE: Saturday’s recreation was the four-hundredth of defenseman Mario Ferraro’s NHL profession. Ferraro, a second spherical choose by the Sharks in 2017, turned professional earlier than the 2019-2020 season and has performed eighth-most video games by anybody in his draft class.