SAN JOSE – The Sharks had been their very own worst enemy at occasions throughout their sport towards the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
Questionable Sharks line modifications led to each the game-tying and go-ahead objectives by the Senators, who earned a come-from-behind 3-2 win earlier than a sellout crowd of 17,435 at SAP Middle.
With the sport tied 2-2, the Sharks allowed a 2-on-0 to the Senators’ Dylan Cozens and Drake Batherson, because the puck bought behind defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin. The play resulted within the puck mendacity subsequent to the purpose line, and Sharks defenseman John Klingberg, together with his stick caught in goalie Alex Nedeljkovic’s tools, was unable to clear earlier than Tim Stützle poked the puck throughout the road with 6:38 left within the third interval.
Each Klingberg and Barclay Goodrow scored for the Sharks, and Nedeljkovic completed with 24 saves for the Sharks, who had been in search of their third straight victory on this homestand after beating the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday and incomes a shootout win over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.
The Sharks end the homestand on Sunday towards the Boston Bruins and might be seeking to set up a greater forecheck than the one they couldn’t get to towards the Senators.
“We couldn’t win a puck at all defensively,” Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky stated. “Offensively, when you don’t win pucks, you basically just skate and chase it. That’s what we did.”
The Sharks additionally had a tricky time within the faceoff circle, profitable simply 21 of 54 attracts. Senators heart Claude Giroux received 17 of 21 faceoffs.
Nedeljkovic needed to be sharp within the second interval as he stopped 14 of 15 pictures. The one which bought by him got here off the stick of former Sharks winger Fabian Zetterlund, who took a protracted move from defenseman Tyler Kleven, skated into San Jose’s finish and fired a shot over the shoulder of goalie Alex Nedeljkovic on the 18:38 mark for simply his second purpose of the season.
The Sharks made a foul change on the play, and Timothy Liljegren was caught up ice, leading to a Senators 3-on-1.
“You can’t change,” Warsofsky stated. “Two goals where we shouldn’t have changed.”
The 2 groups traded power-play objectives within the first interval.
With Philipp Kurashev within the field for roughing defenseman Jake Sanderson, the Senators took a 1-0 lead on the 7:50 mark as Dylan Cozens, from the bumper spot, redirected a move from Tim Stutzle previous goalie Alex Nedeljkovic.
With Hayden Hodgson known as for charging Mario Ferraro, Klingberg took a move from Macklin Celebrini, took a stride ahead and beat Senators goalie Linus Ullmark with a wrist shot from between the circles for his third purpose of the season, all on the ability play.
