Tyler Toffoli scored for the fourth time in 5 video games, and Luke Kunin and Fabian Zetterlund each discovered the again of the web, however the San Jose Sharks couldn’t overcome a disastrous first interval in a 8-3 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Friday.
The Sharks, wanting weary early on after a two-goal loss to the Chicago Blackhawks the night time earlier than, have been below siege for the primary 20 minutes of Friday’s sport because the Jets constructed a 4-1 lead with two objectives from Nikolaj Ehlers and one every from Josh Morrissey and Neal Pionk.
After Kyle Connor, with every kind of time and house within the San Jose zone, scored an even-strength aim on the 1:46 mark of the second interval to offer the Jets a 5-1 lead, coach Ryan Warsofsky pulled beginning goalie Mackenzie Blackwood in favor of Vitek Vanecek.
Blackwood stopped simply 13 of 18 photographs within the loss, permitting power-play objectives to Ehlers and Pionk, however didn’t have a lot assist from the skaters in entrance of him. The Sharks had 9 giveaways and took 5 minor penalties within the first two durations, paving the way in which for his or her fifth straight loss to begin the season for a 3rd straight 12 months.
The Sharks (0-3-2) have been referred to as for seven penalties — with the Jets (4-0-0) scoring on 4 energy performs — en path to their most lopsided lack of the 12 months.
Vanecek, who made 23 saves Thursday within the Sharks’ 4-2 to the Blackhawks, completed with 14 saves in aid because the Sharks ended the three-game highway journey with a report of 0-2-1.
The Sharks subsequent host the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Toffoli scored a power-play aim off a seeing-eye cross by defenseman Jake Walman from the purpose on the 11:43 mark of the primary interval. However lower than two minutes later, a Sharks turnover on the offensive blue line led to a Jets rush that was completed by Ehlers, who set a career-high with three factors within the first interval.
Kunin’s aim, his first of the season, got here on the 10:28 mark of the second interval as he took a cross from Carl Grundstrom and fired a shot between the legs of Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck, final 12 months’s Vezina Trophy because the NHL’s greatest goalie.
Zetterlund scored his third of the season on the 10:09 mark of the third interval, however that was sandwiched by a pair of third-period power-play objectives by Cole Perfetti. Vladislav Namestnikov added a aim with 32.3 seconds left within the third interval.
Initially Revealed: October 18, 2024 at 7:32 p.m.
