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Late heroics snap losing
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Marleau wins it in OT
10/26/05 - by Mike Lee
Great start. Horrible middle.
Fantastic finish. That sums up the Sharks 5-4 overtime win in Dallas over the
host Stars on Wednesday night at American Airlines Center. San Jose scored two
goals within 3 seconds of each other in the opening period, then had to claw
back after allowing four consecutive goals to the Stars. Marco Sturm's tally
with 20 second remaining in regulation prevented the Sharks from dropping their
fifth straight game, and Patrick Marleau ended things with a breakaway goal in
the extra period.
After mustering only five goals total in their
previous four games, the Sharks matched that tally in a see-saw battle against
their division rival. The Stars thought they had won the game 20 seconds into
overtime when Brenden Morrow punched the puck past Sharks goaltender Nolan
Schaefer, who had replaced starter Vesa Toskala seven minutes into the 2nd
period.
Morrow's goal was disallowed by referee Kelly Sutherland, who
ruled that Schaefer had been pushed into the net. Marleau converted three
minutes later after Stars defenseman Phillipe Boucher coughed the puck up in
the Sharks zone. Marco Sturm slid the puck up ice to Marleau who had nothing
but daylight in front of him. The Sharks captain snapped a shot between Stars
goaltender Marty Turco's pads for the game winner.
"We're finally
getting some breaks," Marleau said. "The games in the past, we've been all over
teams early, then we've given up a goal and it deflates the bench. But to
battle back is a great confidence booster."
Marcel Goc and Scott
Hannan had staked the Sharks to a 2-0 lead early in the 1st period. Goc's goal
was his first regular season NHL goal (he had a goal in the playoffs in the
2003-04 season). Hannan added his goal 36 seconds later after Niko Dimitrakos
made a nice centering feed from along the right wing boards.
Content
with a two-goal lead, the Sharks went into hibernation mode, allowing the Stars
to score at will. Jere Lehtinen cut the Sharks lead to 2-1 with a goal late in
the opening period.
Goc had a chance for a second goal late in the
period after he was awarded a penalty shot for being hooked on a breakaway
attempt. The rookie winger fooled Turco with a shimmy in the slot, but his
backhand attempt sailed over the crossbar.
Dallas would bag three 2nd period goals before the
midway mark of the game. Trevor Daley notched his second career NHL goal at
6:40, then rookie Jussi Jokinen bagged a pair of goals to extend the Stars lead
to 4-2.
Jonathan Cheechoo kept the Sharks close with a goal that was
reminiscent of his overtime winner against Dallas last season. The Sharks
forward grabbed a loose puck as he skated from behind the net, before pivoting
and firing a shot past a fallen Turco.
San Jose failed to generate any
serious scoring chances in the 3rd period, with the exception of a Josh
Langfeld shot that was smothered by Turco midway through the period. With
another road lose staring them in the face, the Sharks got a huge break when
Morrow was whistled for high sticking Alyn McCauley with 38 seconds remaining
in regulation.
The Sharks pulled Schaefer for the extra attacker, and
were rewarded when Sturm punched home a rebound from outside the right post
after Scott Thornton threw the puck into a scrum in from of the Stars goal. The
Sharks had the Stars outnumbered 3-1, which included an unguarded Sturm.
"There's no excuse to give away games like that, especially division
games," Stars coach Dave Tippett said.
San Jose dodged a bullet
against a division rival in Dallas, and get another crack in Los Angeles to
wrap up their season long six-game road trip on Saturday.
"The test
was, could we handle the adversity in the second period and we did," Sharks
coach Ron Wilson said.
Notes:
Toskala was pulled after
aggrevating a groin injury after allowing Jokinen's first goal of the evening.
Mike Modano left the game with an undisclosed injury late in the 3rd
period.
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OT |
T |
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2 |
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5 |
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3 |
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| 1st period - 1, San
Jose, Goc 1 (McLaren), 6:27. 2, San Jose, Hannan 1 (Dimitrakos, Primeau), 7:03.
3, Dallas, Lehtinen 6 (Klemm, Ott), 15:09. |
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| 2nd period - 4, Dallas,
Daley 1 (Morrow), 6:40. 5, Dallas, Jokinen 3 (Modano, Lehtinen), 7:12. 6,
Dallas, Jokinen 4 (Lehtinen, Modano), 9:39. 7, San Jose, Cheechoo 4 (Marleau,
Michalek), 10:24. |
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| 3rd period - 8, San
Jose, Sturm 5 (Thornton, Cheechoo), 19:40, (pp). |
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| Overtime - 9, San Jose,
Marleau 5 (Sturm), 3:20. |
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| 1st period - Hannan, SJS
(hooking), 2:40; Erskine, DAL (holding), 8:13; Lehtinen, DAL (holding), 10:35;
Davison, SJS (tripping), 16:19 |
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| 2nd period - Kapanen,
DAL (hooking), 3:21 |
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| 3rd period - McCauley,
SJS (hi-sticking), 4:41; Daley, DAL (hooking), 7:04; Thornton, SJS (roughing),
7:25; Ott, DAL (roughing), 7:25; Arnott, DAL (slashing), 9:44; Ehrhoff, SJS
(holding), 15:01; Morrow, DAL (hi-sticking), 19:22 |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Toskala |
10 |
7 |
| SJ - Schaefer |
13 |
12 |
| DAL - Turco |
41 |
36 |
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OT |
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| SJ |
9 |
10 |
19 |
2 |
41 |
| DAL |
7 |
6 |
8 |
2 |
23 |
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| Referees: Rob Shick, Kelly
Sutherland. Linesmen: Mike Cvik, Darren Gibbs. |
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