The Sharks caught a foul break within the third interval of their recreation towards the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night time.
Oh, they nonetheless made errors within the closing 20 minutes, reminiscent of taking a delay-of-game penalty to arrange a 5-on-3 objective for the Senators or making a foul change, which led to a different Ottawa objective.
However with the sport nonetheless tied early within the third interval, a Ridly Greig shot into the Sharks’ zone took a bizarre carom off the boards. The puck then went to the entrance of an open Sharks web, after goalie Vitek Vanecek left his crease to play the Greig cross.
That left an open web for Tim Stützle, who scored his nineteenth objective of the season, giving the Senators the lead for good as they handed the Sharks a 5-3 loss at Canadian Tire Centre.
The Sharks allowed consecutive targets to Brady Tkachuk, Stützle, and David Perron as their third-period foibles continued in what grew to become their eighth straight loss. Perron’s objective on the 8:31 mark of the third interval, which grew to become the game-winner, got here after the Sharks made a foul line change.
Will Smith scored an influence play objective for the Sharks, their third of the sport, with 1:27 left in regulation time to chop Ottawa’s result in 4-3. However Michael Amadio scored an empty web objective with 1:00 left to seal the win for the Senators, who swept the season sequence with San Jose.
Tyler Toffoli and Timothy Liljegren additionally scored energy play targets for the Sharks, with Liljegren’s objective on the 9:47 mark of the second interval giving San Jose a 2-1 lead.
The Sharks carried that lead into the third interval. However with Mario Ferraro (roughing) and Collin Graf (delay of recreation, puck over glass), a shot by Tkachuk appeared to go off the skate of Marc-Edouard Vlasic earlier than it received previous Vanecek 1:26 into the third interval.
The Sharks now have a 9-7-4 report in video games by which they held a lead after two intervals and an 0-2-2 report on this seven-game highway journey.
The Sharks took a one-goal lead into the third interval after scoring a pair of energy play targets.
After taking a cross from Smith, Toffoli despatched a cross to the entrance of the online supposed for Macklin Celebrini. However the puck went off Jake Sanderson’s skate and previous Senators goalie Linus Ullmark, tying the sport 1-1 on the 5:17 mark.
The Sharks took the lead 4:30 later. Klim Kostin, a brand new addition to the Sharks’ second energy play unit, took management of the puck to the aspect of the Senators’ web, and despatched it to Alex Wennberg close to the boards. Wennberg then despatched the puck to Liljegren, whose shot from contained in the blue line received via site visitors and previous Ullmark for his fifth objective of the season.
The Sharks outshot the Senators 12-8 within the first interval however nonetheless trailed by a objective.
The Sharks dominated the primary jiffy, outshooting the Senators 9-1 earlier than Matthew Highmore was known as for holding San Jose ahead Klim Kostin. The Sharks had two photographs on objective with the person benefit earlier than they turned the puck over within the Ottawa zone, resulting in a breakaway for Shane Pinto, who beat Vanecek for a 1-0 lead on the 11:05 mark of the primary.
Vanecek was coming off a 33-save efficiency towards the Winnipeg Jets on Monday, and entered Saturday with a 3-9-3 report and an .882 save proportion in 17 video games this season. Vanecek’s final win got here on Nov. 29 when the Sharks beat the Seattle Kraken 8-5, as he missed six weeks from Dec. 18 to Feb.6 with a fractured cheekbone.
THRUN OUT: The Sharks have been with out Henry Thrun on Saturday. Thrun left Thursday’s recreation towards the Montreal Canadiens early within the third interval with an higher physique damage. Thrun additionally missed the ultimate 5 minutes of the primary interval of the sport, which San Jose misplaced 4-3 in additional time.
Thrun, who had been on the Sharks’ high protection pair since Cody Ceci was traded to the Dallas Stars on Feb. 1, is taken into account day-to-day, coach Ryan Warsofsky stated. Warsofsky added that it was too quickly to say whether or not the staff would wish to recall one other defenseman from the Barracuda of the AHL. The Sharks are carrying six defensemen with their subsequent recreation on Monday in Toronto towards the Maple Leafs.
Jack Thompson changed Thrun within the Sharks’ lineup and started the sport alongside Vlasic on the third protection pair.
Liljegren took Thrun’s spot on the Sharks’ high pair alongside Jake Walman, and Shakir Mukhamadullin, who was spectacular throughout Thursday’s loss in Montreal, was paired with Mario Ferraro.
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