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Sharks burned in trip
finale
8-game road trip mercifully
ends
2/24/07 - by Mike Lee
The
8-game road trip from hell is over. It ended with an entertaining 7-4
loss to
the Calgary Flames on Saturday night. The back and forth contest was
decided
with a pair of 3rd period goals by the Flames, after San Jose scored 4
times in
the 2nd period. The effort was there, but the results weren't, ending the
trip
with a 4-4 record.
Things took an auspicious start for the
Sharks, who
surrendered two 1st period goals to Calgary. Dion Phaneuf converted on a
power
play 5:26 into the game after the Sharks were called for a too many men
on the
ice. Kristian Huselius sent a cross-ice pass through the slot to Phaneuf
in the
right corner, who one-timed a shot past Evgeni Nabokov.
Nabokov
would
gift-wrap the Flames second goal after he failed to control a Matthew
Lombardi
shot later in the period. Nabokov thought he had the puck squeezed in his
jersey, but it trickled out to his left. Daymond Langkow grabbed the
loose puck
and slipped it into the net for the 2-0 Flames lead.
Things
would get
nutty in the 2nd period when the two teams would combine for 6 goals.
The Sharks got things into gear in the middle period after Giordano was
sent
off for hooking at 3:40. Matt Carle got the Sharks on the board with his
8th
goal of the season by punching in a redirect on the ensuing power play.
Mark
Bell tried getting a backhanded shot off through his legs, but it ended
up
turning into a pass in tight. San Jose collapsed on the Calgary net as
the puck
trickled through the crease to Carle, who gathered it and fired it over a
fallen Miikka Kiprusoff.
The Sharks tied the game 66 later when
Joe
Pavelski redirected a Mike Grier centering pass past Kiprusoff. Grier
made a
nice move to move past Rhett Warrener at the Flames blueline, then raced
into
the Calgary zone along the left wing boards. Pavelski made a bee-line
towards
the net and tapped Grier's pass with Mark Giordano draped over his back.
Grier gave the Sharks a 3-2 lead at 15:11 after Phaneuf botched
a pass
at the Sharks blueline while the Flames were on a power play. Phaneuf
tried
sending the puck cross-ice, but he partially whiffed on the pass,
allowing
Grier to race up ice uncontested. Grier easily deposited the puck past
Kiprusoff for the short-hander.
Calgary would answer on the same power play just 8
seconds later when Iginla tipped a Roman Hamrlik shot from the point past
Nabokov.
Kyle McLaren would help the Sharks regain the lead at
18:56
of the period by pumping a shot from the top of the right circle past
Kiprusoff
after the Flames turned the puck over in their own zone.
Lombardi
would knot things up 31 seconds later after the Sharks pinched too much
in the
Flames zone and paid on a turnover at the blueline. Lombardi beat Douglas
Murray up the ice and beat Nabokov with his 19th of the season.
The Flames wasted no time in the 3rd
period, scoring just 34 seconds in on a botched defensive assignment.
Douglas
Murray missed a coverage assignment on Inginla, allowing the Flames
captain to
snap a centering pass from Alex Tanguay past Nabokov from 15 feet out.
The Flames tacked on their 6th of the game late after a missed icing
call in the Sharks zone. Iginla grabbed a puck deep in the Sharks zone,
then
sent a pass to Langkow at the top of the left circle. Langkow one-timed a
shot
that hand-cuffed Nabokov after hitting Joe Pavelski's stick.
San
Jose
pulled Nabokov with 1:30 to play, allowing Marcus Nilson to score an
empty
netter to cap the scoring.
Notes:
Patrick Marleau
played in his
700th career game for the Sharks.
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2 |
3 |
T |
| SJ |
0 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
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2 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
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| 1st period - 1, CGY,
Phaneuf 16 (Huselius, Hamrlik),, 5:26, (pp). 2, CGY, Langkow 25
(Lombardi,
Hamrlik), 7:42. |
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| 2nd period - 3, SJ,
Carle 8 (Bell, Thornton), 4:36, (pp). 4, SJ, Pavelski 12 (Grier,
Clowe), 5:42.
5, SJ, Grier 14 (unassisted), 15:11, (sh) 6, CGY, Iginla 29
(Hamrlik,
Huselius), 15:19, (pp). 7, SJ, McLaren 4 (unassisted), 18:56. 8,
CGY, Lombardi
19 (Iginla, Tanhuay), 19:27. |
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| 3rd period - 9, CGY,
Iginla 30 (Tanguay, Conroy), 0:34. 10, CGY, Langkow 26 (Iginla,
Tanguay),
16:55. 11, CGY, Nilson 3 (unassisted), 19:22, (en). |
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| 1st period - Tanguay,
CGY (holding), 0:24; Bench, SJ (too many men), 4:56; Bell, SJ
(fighting major),
9:39; Primeau, CGY (fighting major), 9:39; Langkow, CGY (tripping),
14:27;
Bench, CGY (too many men), 19:16. |
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| 2nd period - Giordano,
CGY (hooking), 3:40; McLaren, SJ (tripping), 7:06; Ehrhoff, SJ
(tripping),
9:22; Tanguay, CGY (holding the stick), 10:49; Hamrlik, CGY
(tripping), 13:07;
McLaren, SJ (high sticking), 13:29. |
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| 3rd period - Conroy, CGY
(hooking), 6:58. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
22 |
16 |
| SJ - empty net |
1 |
0 |
| CGY - Kiprusoff |
37 |
33 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
T |
| SJ |
7 |
16 |
14 |
37 |
| CGY |
9 |
6 |
8 |
23 |
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| Referees: Dennis LaRue, Dan
O'Rourke. Linesmen: Darren Gibbs, Vaughan Rody. |
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