Huge second interval helps Sharks full home-and-home sweep of Kraken

A busy month of November for the San Jose Sharks ended on an upbeat observe Saturday.

4 gamers scored targets, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 36 saves in a stable bounce-back efficiency because the Sharks earned a 4-2 win over the Seattle Kraken to brush a home-and-home collection with their Pacific Division rival.

Mario Ferraro scored within the first interval, and Luke Kunin, Will Smith, and Cody Ceci all scored within the second, with Smith’s objective – his third in three video games – giving the Sharks a 4-0 lead on the 9:45 mark.

Ceci’s objective was his first in a highway sport since Nov. 11, 2021, when he helped the Edmonton Oilers beat the Boston Bruins 5-3.

The Kraken responded with targets from Jaden Schwartz and Jared McCann, with McCann’s objective on the 6:27 mark of the third interval chopping San Jose’s result in two. However Blackwood and the Sharks held on from there and closed the month with a 6-6-3 document. San Jose went 3-7-2 in October.

The Sharks additionally beat the Kraken 8-5 on Friday at SAP Heart to shut a four-game homestand with a 2-2-0 document.

Mikael Granlund and Jake Walman every had two assists in what was the Sharks’ first sport of a six-game highway journey that continues Tuesday towards the Washington Capitals.

Blackwood allowed 4 targets on simply 11 photographs within the Sharks’ 4-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday. Not all the targets had been his fault, nevertheless it was a uncommon shaky efficiency from Blackwood in what has been a gradual yr for the veteran netminder.

Blackwood entered Saturday with a 4-8-3 document and a .902 save share for the season.

Ferraro opened the scoring on the 16:54 mark of the primary interval.

After taking a cross from Mikael Granlund, Ferraro held onto the puck for a couple of moments and drifted towards the Seattle internet earlier than he fired a shot that went off Kraken defenseman Will Borgen and into the online previous goalie Joey Daccord for his second objective in three video games.

It marked the fourth straight sport the place a Sharks defenseman scored a objective. Sharks defensemen had a mixed 5 factors Saturday.

Within the Sharks’ win on Friday at SAP Heart. Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith and Ethan Cardwell all scored, marking the primary time three Sharks rookies had scored in the identical sport since 1993.

Initially Revealed: November 30, 2024 at 9:41 PM PST