Sharks fall to Flames for seventh straight loss regardless of Macklin Celebrini’s game-tying one-timer

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks’ dropping streak has reached seven video games.

In entrance of a sellout crowd of 17,435 at SAP Middle, San Jose couldn’t preserve tempo with the Calgary Flames, the fifth-best staff within the NHL’s Pacific Division.

The Sharks managed only one aim on 22 photographs, squandering a robust efficiency from goaltender Yaroslav Askarov in a 3-1 loss to the Flames. Askarov completed with 30 saves.

Macklin Celebrini scored the Sharks’ lone aim on the 3:04 mark of the second interval, a power-play one-timer arrange by a pleasant play alongside the half wall by Alexander Wennberg.

Celebrini’s aim tied him for the NHL rookie scoring lead with 27 factors. He’s alone on the high among the many league’s rookies in targets (12) and factors per sport (1.00).

That tied the sport 1-1 after Calgary’s Jonathan Huberdeau opened the scoring on the 4:40 mark of the primary interval. Huberdeau tipped in MacKenzie Weegar’s shot from the purpose to place the Flames up 1-0.

Calgary regained the lead within the second interval when Mikael Backlund pushed a power-play shot previous Askarov simply three minutes and 46 seconds after Celebrini’s aim.

Goalie and Gilroy native Dustin Wolf had 21 saves within the Flames’ win.

San Jose needed to battle by accidents for a lot of the night time. Forwards Fabian Zetterlund, Mikael Granlund, and Carl Grundstrom all left the sport with accidents within the first and second durations.

Zetterlund and Granlund, who gave the impression to be hit by pucks, later returned to the sport. Grundstrom, who endured a cage-rattling open-ice test from Calgary’s Brayden Pachal, left the sport halfway by the primary interval and didn’t return.

This made the Sharks scramble to reshuffle their traces, an impediment they had been finally unable to beat offensively.

Huberdeau scored an empty-net aim with 0.4 seconds left to seal the Flames’ win.

Initially Printed: December 28, 2024 at 9:38 PM PST