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Intensity absent in Motown
visit
Sharks shutout 4-0 on lackluster
performance
3/23/06 - by Mike Lee
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hours after turning in one of the best offensive showings of the season, the
Sharks did an about face and rolled over to the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis
Arena 4-0. San Jose seemed inclined to make their brief stop in Detroit as
brief as possible, handing Red Wings goaltender Manny Legace his 12th career
shutout. Legace faced only 28 shots, but it may as well have been a night off
for the Detroit netminder.
"I just had to stand there, basically,"
said Legace. "I made a couple of tough saves when it was 3-0 and 4-0. I really
didn't have to do much."
Legace's comments were indicative of the
lackluster performance the Sharks turned in.
Conversely, Sharks
goaltender Evgeni Nabokov continued to struggle surrendering four goals on 30
Detroit shots.
Tomas Holmstrom, Jason Williams, Steve Yzerman and
Mikael Samuelsson each scored for Detroit. Robert Lang and Nicklas Lidstrom
added two assists en route to Detroit's league leading 102nd point of the
season.
"We knew we had to shut down Thornton and Cheechoo and just
make sure to do that," Williams said.
The Sharks top line combined for three shots on goal,
sputtering after destroying the Blues two nights earlier.
Detroit
turned a tight 1-0 game through two periods into a laugher by beating Nabokov
three times in the final period. The Sharks missed on five power play
opportunities to break something open, but the intensity was clearly absent
throughout the night.
"We need a complete team effort in order to beat
a team like Detroit, especially here and we didn't get it," said Sharks head
coach Ron Wilson. "We'll just throw it away and move on to the next game."
San Jose travels to Minnesota for the third of five games on their
current road trip. San Jose lost ground to both Edmonton and Vancouver who
battled to a 4-3 shootout decision on Thursday night.
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| 2nd period - 1, Detroit,
Holmstrom 24 (Schneider, Shanahan), 1:47. |
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| 3rd period - 2, Detroit,
Williams 17 (Lang), 1:18. 3, Detroit, Yzerman 10 (Lidstrom, Lang), 2:59, (pp).
4, Detroit, Samuelsson 21 (Zetterberg, Lidstrom), 13:42. |
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| 1st period - Lidstrom,
DET (hooking), 9:20; Cheechoo, SJS (delay of game), 17:13; Holmstrom, DET
(goaltender interference), 17:39. |
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| 2nd period - J.Thornton,
SJS (hooking), 10:10; Lilja, DET (tripping), 15:50. |
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| 3rd period -Cheechoo,
SJS (tripping), 2:44; Kronwall, DET (hooking), 8:38; Shanahan, DET (hooking),
16:22. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
30 |
26 |
| DET - Legace |
28 |
28 |
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3 |
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| SJ |
9 |
5 |
14 |
28 |
| DET |
11 |
9 |
10 |
30 |
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| Referees: Rob Shick, Brad
Watson. Linesmen: Don Henderson, Mark Wheler. |
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