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No answers for
Ducks
Sharks drop 3rd straight game
12/22/07 - by Mike Lee
So much for Friday's two hour
team meeting to straighten out the Sharks ills. In the first opportunity to
apply some of the things San Jose's players deliberated over just 24 hours
earlier, the Sharks were thrown around like rag dolls by the visiting Anaheim
Ducks on Saturday night at a sold out HP Pavilion, losing 5-2. The loss was the
Sharks 4th this season in five games against Anaheim, who continue to outplay
San Jose physically and extend their mental stranglehold on the Sharks.
The Ducks kept things simple, scoring a goal late in the 1st period,
then broke the Sharks with a Cory Perry tally midway through the 2nd.
A Todd Bertuzzi breakaway early was a preview of more ominous things to come,
but the ensuing penalty shot that Bertuzzi was awarded turned out to be one of
the few highlights for the Sharks. San Jose netminder Evgeni Nabokov denied
Bertuzzi on the free shot, but Bertuzzi would store the play in the memory bank
for later. It was the third penalty shot Nabokov has faced and successfully
stopped at home this season.
Chris Pronger opened the scoring with a
slap shot through traffic with 2:03 left in the opening period, that found its
way past Nabokov.
Once Perry scored, the Sharks were done. The body
language said it all. Perry converted on the power play with a put back goal
after a pass attempt to Bertuzzi bounced off a Sharks defender right back to
Ducks forward.
Chris Kunitz would make it 3-0 a minute later on a big
deflection off a Scott Neidermayer shot that bounced off Nabokv. The rebound
kicked out into the slot, where Kunitz backhanded the puck into the Sharks net.
Patrick Marleau would cut the Ducks lead to 3-1 at the 3:17 mark of
the 3rd period, but the Ducks would answer just 44 seconds later on a defensive
gaff by Marc-Edouard Vlasic.
With the sharks trying to build on Marleau's goal,
Jeremy Roenick turned the puck over behind the Duscks net, then Vlasic tried to
pinch from the left wing boards after Kent Huskins tried chipping the puck out
of the zone. Rather than cut off the play, Vlasic failed to stop the puck and
allowed Bertuzzi to slip behind him without any other backside help.
Bertuzzi took Huskins pass and raced up the ice and beat Nabokov with a
backhand shot, that started with a move to his left, mirroring his penalty shot
attempt earlier in the game. But rather than draw the puck over to his forehand
like he did on the penalty shot, Bertuzzi flipped a backhand shot across his
body, beating Nabokov.
Marcel Goc would score his 1st goal of the
season on a wraparound chance at 11:40, but the Sharks could do nothing to
penetrate the lanes that the Ducks clogged all night.
Sharks head
coach Ron Wilson would pull Nabokov late in the game, but Sean O'Donnell would
chip the puck up ice from the redline, scoring an empty netter for good
measure.
Game Notes:
KyLe McLaren landed one of his
patented hip checks on Ducks enforcer George Parros. The hit was one of the few
things that generated any energy in an otherwise flat building.
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T |
| ANA |
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| SJ |
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| 1st period - ANA,
Bertuzzi (failed penalty shot), 13:07. 1, ANA, Pronger 7 (Pahlsson),
17:57. |
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| 2nd period - 2, ANA,
Perry 19 (Getzlaf, Pronger), 10:32, (pp). 3, ANA, Kunitz 12 (S. Neidermayer),
11:33. |
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| 3rd period - 4, SJ,
Marleau 7 (Michalek, Ehrhoff), 3:17, (pp). 5, ANA, Bertuzzi 5 (Huskins), 4:01.
6, SJ, Goc 1 (Grier, Vlasic), 11:40. 7, ANA, O'Donnell 2 (unassisted), 18:55,
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| 1st period - Perry, ANA
(roughing), 1:03; Perry, ANA (interference), 3:08; Mitchell, SJ (interference),
5:25; Pahlsson, ANA (tripping), 13:42. |
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| 2nd period - Pahlsson,
ANA (cross checking), 6:27, Thornton, SJ (slashing), 6:27; Ozolinsh, SJ
(hooking), 9:12; Carter, ANA (tripping), 17:07; Carle, SJ (slashing),
17:33. |
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| 3rd period - Getzlaf,
ANA (roughing), 0:11; Thornton, SJ (roughing), 0:11; Perry, ANA (holding),
3:01; Beauchemin, ANA (roughing), 5:14; Michalek, SJ (roughing), 5:14;
Thornton, SJ (elbowing), 6:24. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| ANA - Giguere |
29 |
27 |
| SJ - Nabokov |
23 |
19 |
| SJ - empty net |
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| ANA |
9 |
9 |
6 |
24 |
| SJ |
12 |
7 |
10 |
29 |
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| Referees: Mike
Leggo, Rob Schick. Linesmen: Lonnie Cameron, Shane Heyer. |
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