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Shootout fails
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SJ blows two leads
then fall to Ducks
11/9/07 - by Mike Lee
November is division play month and the Sharks
continue to give out points like it's Halloween. San
Jose coughed up two leads against the Anaheim Ducks on
Friday night in Southern California, then rolled over
in the shootout to lose 3-2. The Sharks couldn't
muster a single goal on the shootout, which has
exemplified the ineptness in the specialty.
Torrey Mitchell finally bagged his first NHL goal,
scoring at 10:32 of the opening period to stake the
Sharks to a 1-0 lead. Mike Grier setup the goal with
a nifty pass from the left corner after he skated past
a Sharks defender along the left wing boards. The
pass headed for the Ducks left post, where Mitchell
was breaking from the slot. The rookie forward got hi
blade on the puck, lifting it over Jean-Sebastian
Giguere's right shoulder.
Anaheim used the lively Honda Center boards to tie the
game 12:30 into the 2nd period. Mathieu Schneider
started the sequence by firing the puck in the from
the point wide of the net. The puck bounced off the
end boards, kicking out to Corey Perry, who bounced a
shot of Sharks goaltender Evgeni Nabokov. The rebound
bounced right to Ryan Getzlaf in the slot, who swept
it into the Sharks net.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic would take a holding penalty 35
seconds later to put the Sharks on their heels, but
the league's 3rd ranked penalty kill snuffed out the
situation, but not before Getzlaf rang a shot off the
post.
Getzlaf would hurt his team later in the period, by
taking a tripping penalty. The Sharks would
capitalize on the ensuing power play when Joe Thornton
threw a puck on goal that sailed between Milan
Michalek's skates and past Giguere. Thornton gathered
in a pass from Craig Rivet near the right dot, then
threw the puck at Michalek, who was parked just
outside the right post. The screen prevented Giguere
from seeing the puck as it tucked inside the left
post.
Anaheim would answer 6 minutes into the 3rd period
when Andy McDonald took a feed from Todd Marchant and
raced around the Sharks defense before snapping a shot
past Nabokov. McDonald got a step on Jonathan
Cheechoo before Marchant chipped the puck along the
right wing boards.
Brad May tried to help build on the Ducks momentum by
laying out Jeremy Roenick with a hit in the Sharks
zone, but he was whistled for interference. Rivet was
hurt on the play, hobbling to the bench, but he would
return to the bench later in the game. The Sharks
failed to generate a shot during the man advantage,
squandering the opportunity.
Cheechoo would team up with Thornton on a bang-bang
play in front of the Ducks net, but Giguere robbed the
Sharks winger.
Regulation ended with the two teams deadlocked 2-2.
Both teams played tentatively in the overtime period,
exchanging few quality chances.
Anaheim ended it in the shootout after the Sharks
failed to put anything past Giguere. Getzlaf snapped
a shot low to the glove side that beat Nabokov.
Pavelski rang his chance off the left post to put the
Sharks in the early hole. Mathieu Schneider missed
with a wrist shot that Nabokov deflected, but then
Cheechoo tried going over Giguere's glove that ended
up hitting the Ducks goaltender square in the chest.
McDonald sent the Sharks packing with a backhand shot
that slipped through the 5-hole.
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1 |
2 |
3 | OT | SO |
T |
| SJ |
1 |
1 |
0 | 0 | 0 |
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| ANA |
0 |
1 |
1 | 0 | 1 |
3 |
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Mitchell 1 (Grier), 10:32. |
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| 2nd period - 2,
ANA, Getzlaf 5 (Perry, Schneider), 12:30. 3, SJ,
Thornton 6 (Rivet, Pavelski), 19:15, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 4,
ANA, McDonald 3 (Marchant, Huskin), 5:56. |
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| Shootout - ANA:
Getzlaf (score), Schneider (miss), McDonald (score).
SJ: Pavelski (miss), Cheechoo (miss). |
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| 1st period -
Schneider, ANA (hooking), 5:23; Huskins, ANA
(hooking), 8:03; Bench, ANA (too many men),
16:02. |
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| 2nd period -
Vlasic, SJ (holding), 13:05; Getzlaf, ANA (tripping),
17:37. |
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| 3rd period -
Getzlaf, ANA (tripping), 1:32; May, ANA
(interference), 7:03. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
26 |
24 |
| ANA - Giguere |
24 |
22 |
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2 |
3 | OT |
T |
| SJ |
9 |
7 |
7 | 1 |
24 |
| ANA |
3 |
11 |
9 | 3 |
26 |
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| Referees: Paul
Devorski, Eric Furlatt.
Linesmen: Ryan Galloway, Tim Nowak. |
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