SAN JOSE — Clayton Keller scored with 43.8 seconds left in regulation time to elevate the Utah Hockey Membership to a contentious 4-3 win over San Jose Sharks on Saturday evening at SAP Middle.
With Cody Ceci serving a excessive sticking penalty, Keller took a cross from Mikhail Sergachev and beat Sharks goalie Vitek Vanecek for his tenth aim.
Vanecek gave the Sharks an opportunity on Saturday, making 36 saves, however San Jose misplaced for the fourth time in 5 video games and began its three-game homestand on a bitter observe.
“I think we just didn’t have a killer instinct to go win a hockey game,” Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky mentioned. “We’re still learning that. It’s disappointing because I thought we came off a long road trip, I thought we dug in, I thought we worked hard and did some good things tonight.
“But in the third period we got to find a way to go win a hockey game.”
The 2 groups mixed for 26 penalty minutes, however the Sharks maybe felt there ought to have been extra calls, together with what gave the impression to be boarding by Kevin Stenlund for a success from behind on Macklin Celebrini halfway via the sport.
The Sharks traded objectives within the third interval.
After Fabian Zetterlund’s power-play aim on the 5:00 mark, Utah tied it up 4:49 afterward an even-strength aim by Michael Carcone, who had a tap-in aim after Stenlund discovered him open beside the Sharks’ internet.
The primary sport of the Sharks’ homestand went forwards and backwards all evening.
The Sharks went up 2-1 on a aim by Mikael Granlund on the 14:11 mark of the second interval. However 4 minutes later, they dedicated what was then their fourth penalty of the sport, with Nico Sturm going off for hooking on the 18:40 mark.
Simply 12 seconds later, Nick Schmaltz took a cross from Logan Cooley and beat Vanecek from in shut for his fifth aim of the season.
The Sharks allowed a aim to Dylan Guenther on the 7:27 mark of the primary interval however acquired that aim again with 5:02 left earlier than intermission.
Wennberg, who was coming off shift through which he fanned on a Grade An opportunity, took a cross from Barclay Goodrow and fired a shot that beat Utah goalie Karel Vejmelka brief facet for his eighth aim of the season and the 99th of his NHL profession.
Guenther’s aim was his thirteenth of the season, as he created some house for himself, took a cross from Logan Cooley and fired a shot previous Vanecek.
Utah had scored 38 objectives in its final 10 video games earlier than Saturday, going 6-2-2 alongside the best way.
“Elite skill level in this lineup, so they can make you pay,” Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky mentioned earlier than the sport. “Obviously, they’ve got the Guenthers and the (Clayton) Kellers, the skill, so we’ve got to be extremely physical tonight in the defensive zone. We’ve got to take away time and space.”
The Sharks had been coming off a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday once they had been outchanced 16-2 within the third interval, per Pure Stat Trick.
“You look back at that St Louis game, and the third period especially, we just gave up way too much time, space, and motion,” Warsofsky mentioned. “(The Blues) got their (defensemen) rolling, and we’re going to see that tonight with (defenseman Mikhail) Sergachev.
“The big thing tonight is us defending. We’ve got to be committed to it, we’ve got to continue to break out pucks, and when we do those two things, we have a lot of success, and we’re going to continue to harp on that and continue to preach that and be more consistent with it.”
Initially Printed: December 14, 2024 at 9:49 PM PST
