The San Jose Sharks rallied for an unbelievable win Saturday, scoring 4 instances within the third interval earlier than defenseman John Klingberg scored on the 2:57 mark of extra time in a 6-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Enviornment.
With the Sharks trailing 5-1, John Klingberg and William Eklund scored slightly below seven minutes aside to chop the Penguins’ result in 5-3 with 5:41 left in regulation time.
Then, with Sharks goalie Yaroslav Askarov pulled for the additional attacker, Macklin Celebrini and Tyler Toffoli scored targets 50 seconds aside, with Toffoli’s objective with 1:38 left within the third interval tying the sport 5-5.
On the game-winner, Klingberg took the puck throughout the Penguins’ blue line, eluded a examine, and labored a give-and-go with Celebrini, as he took a return move and fired a shot previous Arturs Silovs for his seventh objective of the season, silencing the gang of 17,059 at PPG Paints Enviornment.
Toffoli had two targets and two assists, Alexander Wennberg and Celebrini every had three factors, and Askarov completed with 38 saves because the Sharks completed their five-game street journey in probably the most outstanding trend.
Wingers Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev each left the sport with accidents.
Kurashev left the sport halfway by the second interval after crashing exhausting into the top boards within the Penguins’ zone. Smith was damage with 16:30 left within the third interval, as he was hit into the boards by Pittsburgh defenseman Parker Wotherspoon within the Penguins’ zone.
Smith instantly started to skate off the ice and threw off certainly one of his gloves as he clutched his proper arm earlier than he reached the bench.
Proper after the hit, Sharks middle Macklin Celebrini went after Wotherspoon, with each gamers falling to the ice to start out a quick melee.
Smith and Kurashev started the sport on the Sharks’ high line with Celebrini. Smith is the Sharks’ second-leading scorer with 29 factors in 32 video games earlier than Saturday, and Kurashev had 15 factors in 30 video games.
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