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Shootout fails again
Sharks drop sixth straight
11/21/05 - by
Mike Lee
The Sharks finally got through an opening period
without trailing, but their shootout woes did them in for the second
straight
game. San Jose's inept offense continued to sputter in Edmonton on Monday
night, allowing the Oilers to take a 2-1 win after outscoring the Sharks
2-1 in
the shootout.
Patrick Marleau gave the Sharks a short lived lead by scoring his eleventh goal
of the season on a power play midway through the 2nd period. Marleau
cranked a
shot past Edmonton goaltender Michael Morrison for the point after Michael
Peca
was sent off for hooking.
The Sharks defense was strong all evening, but allowed the Oilers to sneak one
past Evgeni Nabokov with just 38 seconds remaining in the period. Edmonton
threw everybody at the net as the period wound down, which resulted in a
flurry
of shots. Marc-Andre Bergeron and Fernando Pisani both took hacks at the
puck
in front of the net, but Nabokov rejected the shots in close. Nabokov
couldn't
stop the third shot after Marty Reasoner punched in a rebound.
Radek Dvorek had a chance to win the game in overtime but Nabokov stoned the
Oilers forward with a tremendous pad same. Dvorak skated in uncontested,
and
tried to deek Nabokov with a move to the backhand, but the Sharks
goaltender
threw a pad out to keeo the game going.
Marleau had a chance to end things himself with less than a minute remaining in
the extra period but Morrison denied the Sharks captain with a glove save
up
high.
The Sharks failed on the new shootout format for the third consecutive time
after Niko Dimtrakos and Jonathan Cheechoo botched their attempts.
Dimitrakos
failed to even get a shot off after loosing control of the puck as he
skated in
on Morrison.
Dvorak and Ryan Smyth slipped past shots past Nabokov in the shootout to send
the Sharks to their sixth loss in a row, which marks the first six-game
losing
streak in ten years for San Jose.
Notes:
Scot Parker made his season debut after suffering a face injury in preseason.
Parker skated 12 shifts, racking up one shot on goal, zero hits, and a
goaltender interference penalty.
The Sharks assigned Steve Bernier
and
Ryan Clowe to Cleveland.
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2 |
3 |
OT | SO |
T |
| SJ |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 | 0 |
1 |
| EDM |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 | 1 |
2 |
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| 2nd period - 1, San Jose, Marleau 11 (
Stuart, Sturm) pp, 6:07. 2, Edmonton, Reasoner 5 (Pisani, Bergeron),
19:22. |
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| Shootout - Dvorak
(EDM), Sturm (SJ), Smyth (EDM). |
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| 1st period - Stoll, EDM (hooking),
2:44; Preissing, SJS (holding), 6:10; Michalek, SJS (holding stick), 8:49;
Hannan, SJS (hooking), 17:43 |
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| 2nd period - Peca, EDM (hooking),
5:39; Harvey, EDM (slashing), 7:16; Morrison, EDM (Delay of game - puck over
glass), 9:46;
Horcoff, EDM (hooking), 11:43; Parker, SJS (goaltender interference), 14:41;
McCauley, SJS (hooking), 17:16 |
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| 3rd period - Pronger, EDM (interference),
1:10 |
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| Overtime - Smyth, EDM (holding), 5:00 |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
21 |
20 |
| EDM - Morrison |
22 |
21 |
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2 |
3 |
OT |
T |
| SJ |
3 |
7 |
10 |
2 |
22 |
| EDM |
10 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
21 |
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| Referees: Stephane Auger, Mike Hasenfratz.
Linesmen:
Ryan Galloway, Brad Lazarowich. |
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