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Record night for
Sharks
Franchise record 6 PP
goals
1/4/07 - by Mike Lee
What
looked like the makings of
another Phoenix debacle turned into one of the biggest offensive nights
in team
history for the Sharks on Thursday night. After falling into a 3-0 1st
period
hole to the visiting Detroit Red Wings, San Jose stormed back with a
vengeance
to club the Wings nine straight goals en route to a 9-4 drubbing at HP
Pavilion.
Mike Grier and Ryan Clowe scored two goals each,
Patrick
Marleau had a goal and three assists and Joe Thornton added 4 assists on
a
night that saw the Sharks set a franchise record with 6 power play
tallies.
Evgeni Nabokov was probably the only Shark not smiling after the
landslide victory. The Sharks goaltender was yanked by Sharks head coach
Ron
Wilson midway through the opening period after the Red Wings put 3 pucks
past
him on only 12 shots. Jiri Hudler opened the game with his 6th at 3:18 of
the
period.
Tomas Holmstrom redirected a Mathieu Schneider shot past
Nabokov 5 minutes later while Grier sat in the box for a hooking
infraction.
Things turned really sour for Nabokov at the 11:20 mark when Jason
Williams
skated up ice uncontested after Marcel Goc flubbed control of the puck at
Detroit's blueline. Williams skated on a line just outside the right
post, then
ripped a shot to the opposite corner as Nabokov came out of the net to
challenge him.
Wilson's wake up call hit home and the Sharks
went to
work, starting with offensive support from an unlikely source. Josh
Gorges, the
second year defenseman, broke the ice for San Jose by scoring his first
NHL
goal with just over 5 minutes to play in the period. Gorges had played in
78
NHL games without scoring.
Whatever Wilson said to his team
during the
1st intermission hit a nerve.
After Hudler was sent off for
hooking to open the 2nd period, Jonathan
Cheechoo converted on the ensuing power play with a one time that beat
Dominik
Hasek, cutting the Red Wing's lead to 3-2.
Clowe would chip in a
deflection after a scrum broke out in front of the Detroit net less than
two
minutes later, erasing Detroit's 3-goal lead.
Christian Ehrhoff
would
give the Sharks the lead at 14:09 on a blast from the left point, after
Thornton sent a pass cross ice to the young defenseman. Hasek was
partially
screened on the play, allowing the blast to catch the upper right corner
of the
net.
Joe Pavelski capped the four goal period with his 9th
of the season on a bang bang play with three minutes to play in the
middle
period. Oddly the sequence started with Schneider laying out the Sharks
forward
along the Red Wings end boards. While doing so, Scheneider broke his
stick and
made an attempt to keep the puck away from Jonathan Cheechoo who was
swarming
behind the net by tossing it onto the back of his own net. Pavelski was
back on
his skates by that time and grabbed the puck as it bounced off the rear
bar,
then swooped around to the front of the net, sliding it under Hasek's
pads for
the 5-3 lead.
San Jose turned the game into a laugher in the 3rd
period with another 4 goals. After Mike Grier scored his 8th goal of the
season
at the 6:03 mark, Marleau converted the Sharks third consecutive power
play
tally by depositing a Thornton pass that traveled across the top of
Detroit's
crease. Marleau's goal came on a two-man advantage after Chris Draper was
sent
off for holding the stick and Dany Markov was whistled for slashing a
minute
later.
Grier would poke home another power play goal at 11:38
after
Marleau set him up with a pass from the right corner. The point put
Marleau at
the top of the franchise points list, moving him past Owen Nolan with 452
career points.
The Sharks
captain will tie Owen Nolan for the franchise goal scoring lead with his
next
tally.
Detroit head coach Mike Babcock mercifully pulled Hasek
after
surrendering a career high eight goals. Hasek's replacement, Chris
Osgood,
immediately gave up another power play goal, this time off the stick off
Clowe,
who chipped in a deflection on a Doug Murray shot.
Brett Lebda
scored a meaningless goal late
to cap the 13 goal night.
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| DET |
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| 1st period - 1, DET,
Hudler 6 (Kronvall), 3:18. 2, DET, Holmstrom 8 (Schneider,
Zetterberg), 8:47,
(pp). 3, DET, Williams 7 (unassisted), 11:20. 4, SJ, Gorges 1
(Thornton,
Grier), 14:24. |
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| 2nd period -
5, SJ, Cheechoo 13 (Pavelski, Vlassic), 4:53, (pp). 6, SJ, Clowe 4
(Goc,
Brown), 6:16. 7, SJ, Ehrhoff 8 (Thornton, Marleau), 14:09. 8, SJ,
Pavelski 9
(Cheechoo, Michalek), 16:54, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 9, SJ,
Grier 8 (Marleau, Thornton), 6:03, (pp). 10, SJ, Marleau 18
(Thornton,
Ehrhoff), 7:26, (pp). 11, SJ, Grier 9 (Marleau, Hannan), 11:38,
(pp). 12, SJ,
Clowe 5 (Murray, Rissmiller), 15:06, (pp). 13, DET, Lebda 3
(Franzen, Draper),
18:18. |
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| 1st period - Grier, SJ
(hooking), 7:31; Filppula, DET (hooking), 17:03. |
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| 2nd period - Hudler, DET
(hooking), 3:33; Williams, DET (hooking), 8:10; Marleau, SJ
(holding), 9:59;
Goc, SJ (hooking), 11:21; Lidstrom, DET (holding), 16:20. |
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| 3rd period - Marleau, SJ
(hooking), 2:56; Hudler, DET (hooking), 4:41; Draper, DET (holding
the stick),
6:04; Markov, DET (slashing), 7:01; Grier, SJ (interference), 7:45;
Maltby, DET
(high sticking), 11:02; Markov, DET (hooking), 14:05; Murray, SJ
(cross
checking), 16:01; McLaren, SJ (delay of game - puck over glass),
19:41. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| DET - Hasek |
28 |
20 |
| DET - Osgood |
3 |
2 |
| SJ - Nabokov |
12 |
9 |
| SJ - Toskala |
18 |
17 |
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2 |
3 |
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| DET |
16 |
9 |
5 |
30 |
| SJ |
7 |
15 |
9 |
31 |
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| Referees: Don Koharski, Chris
Rooney. Linesmen: Don Henderson, Brian Murphy. |
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