SAN JOSE – Frustrations boiled over for the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night time within the early going of their recreation with the Nashville Predators at SAP Heart.
Exhibiting surprisingly little life after the opening faceoff, the Sharks allowed three targets to the Predators within the recreation’s first 6:53, with Gus Nyquist, Tommy Novak, and Filip Forsberg all beating rookie goalie Yaroslav Askarov.
Then, the fireworks started.
Sharks alternate captain Luke Kunin, attempting to spark his crew, rapidly dropped the gloves with Predators ahead Cole Smith on the 6:54 mark. Proper after the following faceoff, Barclay Goodrow fought Nashville winger Michael McCarron on the 6:56 mark. Two seconds after the following faceoff, Ty Dellandrea had a fast scrap with Zachaery L’Heureux.
That’s three fights in 4 seconds.
That introduced the Shark Tank crowd to life and injected some power into the Sharks, who regarded like a special crew from that time ahead.
Walker Duehr, a waiver declare by San Jose on Wednesday, scored his first objective of the season on the 8:12 mark, with Mario Ferraro and Nikolai Kovalenko getting the assists. Then, on the 16:34 mark, Ferraro scored his career-high fifth of the season off assists from Mikael Granlund and Timothy Liljegren.
Thursday’s recreation got here two days after the Sharks blew a 5-1 result in the Predators and misplaced 7-5 at Bridgestone Enviornment. The loss was San Jose’s fourth straight and 18th of their final 22 video games.
The Sharks trailed the Predators 3-2 going into the second interval. However simply 1:38 into the second interval, Forsberg scored his second objective with a wraparound shot previous Askarov, who was acquired from the Predators by the Sharks in August and was making his first begin towards his former crew.
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Initially Printed: January 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM PST
