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Les Miserables
Special teams nightmare sinks SJ
1/14/06
- by Mike Lee
The on again, off again Sharks ended their up beat
five-game road trip with a thud on Saturday night in Montreal, dropping a 6-2
decision at the Bell Centre. It turned out to be a special-teams nightmare for
San Jose, who allowed two short-handed goals and four power play goals, all in
the 2nd period. Montreal jumped all over the Sharks in general manager Bob
Gainey's debut as the Canadiens new head coach.
Gainey took the helm
after firing coach Claude Julien and assistant coach Rick Green earlier in the
day. Former Canadien and Dallas Star Guy Carbanneau will assume the head
coaching responsibilities next season.
"I hadn't been close to the ice
for a game in quite a while," Gainey said. "It was a fun game to be a part of."
The Sharks were in for a long evening as Montreal kicked things off
with a high temp flow that didn't subside until the team was sporting a 6-1
lead at the end of two periods. San Jose held the Canadiens at bay during the
opening period and managed to take a 1-0 lead on Grant Stevenson's 8th goal of
the season.
Mark Smith failed to push the Sharks lead to 2-0 on a
breakaway at the end of the period, and it was all down hill from their. Andrei
Markov scored the first of his two goals while the Canadiens were killing a
hooking penalty to Saku Koivu. Markov pinched in on the play after Radek Bonk
forced the puck up ice on the penalty kill, and rifled a shot past Evgeni
Nabokov to tie things at 1-1. Markov would add another goal six minutes later
on the power play.
Sharks rookie forward Marcel Goc started Montreal's
second short-handed conversion after he muffed a breakaway chance by passing
the puck even though there was nobody between him and Canadiens goaltender Jose
Theodore. Garcel would then get beat to a loose puck at the end of the sequence
by Chris Higgins, who converted on the turnover after Goc missed with an
attempt to chip the puck away with a swinging stick.
Canandiens rookie
Mark Streit would score his first NHL goal at 17:13 of the period with a blast
from the high slot while on a 5-on-3.
"It's a big relief," Streit
said. "It's an awesome feeling. It's obviously like a dream come true for me
and I'm very happy about the big win tonight. It was a very big win and now we
can build on that."
Mike Ribeiro added his own power play goal at 18:25
and Jan Bulis finished the Sharks off with an extra-man goal after Scott
Thornton sat in the box for boarding.
"We've got to throw this one out
of the window and forget about it," Nabokov said.
Nabokov got an early
start on purging this one from the memory bank after getting pulled to start
the 3rd period. His 6 goals allowed on 14 2nd period shots was a complete about
face from the 40 save shutout that he posted in Ottawa on Thursday
night.
Jonathan Cheechoo added a meaningless goal late in the 3rd
period after Kovalev was sent off for slashing.
"We deserved what we
got in the second period," Sharks coach Ron Wilson said.
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| SJ |
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6 |
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| 1st period - 1, San
Jose, Stevenson 8 (Ekman, Smith), 17:33. |
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| 2nd period - 2,
Montreal, Markov 6 (Bonk), 1:35, (sh). 3, Montreal, Markov 7 (Kovalev, Rivet),
7:15, (pp). 4, Montreal, Higgins 6 (Markov), 8:59, (sh). 5, Montreal, Streit 1
(Markov, Kovalev), 17:13, (pp). 6, Montreal, Ribeiro 8 (Streit, Bulis), 18:25,
(pp). 7, Montreal, Bulis 8 (Ribeiro, Bonk), 19:34, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 8, San
Jose, Cheechoo 25 (Thornton, Ehrhoff), 16:19, (pp). |
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| 2nd period - Koivu, MON
(hooking), 0:39; Smith, SJS (tripping), 6:05; Zednik, MON (hooking), 8:33;
Markov, MON (hooking), 10:39; Begin, MON (tripping), 11:11; Stevenson, SJS
(tripping), 12:48; Preissing, SJS (hooking), 15:27; Nabokov, SJS, served by
Ekman (tripping), 16:45 |
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| 3rd period - Begin, MON
(boarding), 1:27; Kovalev, MON (slashing), 15:20; Koivu, MON (hooking),
16:49. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
20 |
14 |
| SJ - Toskala |
6 |
6 |
| MON - Theodore |
25 |
23 |
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8 |
11 |
25 |
| MON |
6 |
14 |
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26 |
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| Referees: Eric Furlatt, Tom
Kowal. Linesmen: Pierre Champoux, Michel Cormier. |
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