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Roenick's SO Goal sinks
Hawks
Sharks beat cellar dwellers
2/2/08 - by Mike Lee
Goal scorer isn't of the things
Sharks GM Doug Wilson spells out when defining Jeremy Roenick's role in San
Jose, but the veteran forward bagged a shootout goal that propelled the Sharks
to a 3-2 shootout win on Saturday afternoon at HP Pavilion. Roenick scored the
clincher against his former team, the Chicago Blackhawks in a matinee game the
moved the Sharks back into a tie with the Dallas Stars for the Pacific Division
lead. Evgeni Nabokov had a relatively light load throughout the game, then came
up huge against Chicago's last two shooters in the shootout to preserve the
win.
Roenick has scored some big goals for the Sharks this season, but
this may have been the biggest. Sweeping wide right as he skated in on net, the
veteran snapped a goal to the upper left corner of the net to send the sellout
crowd home happy.
The Jody Shelley era started on the first shift of
the game with Shelley nailing James Wisniewski against the Blackhawks bench.
Several Chicago players took exception and congregated around the new Sharks
acquisition. Douglas Murray locked up with Adam Burish.
Both teams
parked the defensive game plans early in the game, allowing the opposing team
with a pair of breakaway chances each. A Patrick Rissmiller break ended with a
scoring chance and a Sharks power play after Wisniewski latched on to
Rissmiller.
The Sharks failed to convert on the chance and then gave
up a Chicago break that ended with Matt Carle in the box for hooking Patrick
Kane.
Chicago opened the game's scoring with a Patrick Sharp
deflection that got past Evgeni Nabokovwith 1:10 remaining in the opening
period. After winning the faceoff in the Sharks zone, Chicago moved the puck
over to Cam Barker on the left point. Barker threw the puck on net and Sharp
redirected the shot as he skated across the top of the crease. The Sharks would
finally get to Khabibulin after the Blackhawk sot themselves into penalty
trouble early in the 2nd period.
Barker and Sharp took penalties 24
seconds apart, giving the Sharks a lengthy 5-on-3 power play. Jonathan Cheechoo
tied the game at 1-1 with his 11th goal of the season on the two-man advantage.
Joe Thornton set a pass through the crease from the right corner to Cheechoo,
who one-timed it into a wide open net from just outside the left post.
The Sharks almost went back on a 5-on-3 after Brent Sopel fired the puck down
the ice after Cheechoo's goal. The Chicago defenseman was given a 10-minute
misconduct penalty for the infraction, but was not assessed a penalty that
forced the Blackhawks to go down another man. Rough stuff ensued on the
following whistle after Steve Bernier was knocked to the ice after a scoring
chance in front of the Chicago net.
Thornton missed on a breakaway with 4:30 left in the
2nd period, taking a pass from Craig Rivet just outside the Blackhawks
blueline. Khabibulin snuffed out the scoring chance with a leg save.
The Sharks took the lead at 3:30 of the 3rd period on Marc-Edouard Vlasic's 1st
goal of the season. Vlasic took a feed from Thornton at the left point and
ripped a shot passed a screened Khabibulin.
Duncan Keith would knot
things up at 2-2 less than 2 minutes later on a goal similar to Vlasic's,
except Keith appeared to allow the puck to clear the zone right before taking
the shot. The linesman allowed the play to continue, and it ended badly for San
Jose after Nabokov was partially screened and seemed to fail to pick up the
shot off Keith's stick.
The two teams would end regulation deadlocked,
forcing the overtime period. Thornton and Cheechoo had a chance to end it early
on a give-and-go play that Khabibulin denied with a crazy blocker save.
A wild scrum in front of the Blackhawks net ended with Khabibulin
grabbing a puck out of the air as Christian Ehrhoff swatted at a deflection in
the crease and the horn sounding to send the game to the shootout.
Rookie Tomas Plihal led off the shootout for San Jose, but Khabibuln poked
check the shot in tight. Patrick Kane answered with a roof shot that found the
upper right corner of the net. Khabibulin denied Cheechoo with a glove save.
Nabokov stopped a Martin Havlat backhand attempt, and then Joe Pavelski kept
the Sharks alive with a roof shot.
Had Sharp buried his chance, the
Blackhawks leave with a win, but his shot was turned aside by Nabokov. Steve
Bernier deek attempt failed, but a circus save by Nabokov on Robert Lang kept
the Sharks alive. Lang tried going top shelf, but Nabokov snagged it with his
glove as he staked his pads.
After Roenick whipped his shot over
Khabibulin's stick to put the Sharks up, Cam Barker put a shot right into
Nabokov's pads to end it.
Game Notes:
Muray left the
game at the end of the 2nd period with a hip pointer and did not return. With
Shelley's addition to the lineup Devin Setoguchi was scratched. The Sharks tied
a franchise record with 6 shots on goal in overtime, last accomplished April,
6, 2003 vs. Phoenix in a 3-3 tie.
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1 |
2 |
3 |
OT |
SO |
T |
| CHI |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| SJ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
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| 1st period - 1, CHI,
Sharp 23 (Barker, Havlat), 18:50. |
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| 2nd period - 2, SJ,
Cheechoo 11 (Thornton, Rivet), 5:35, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 3, SJ,
Vlasic 1 (Thornton, Rivet), 3:30. 4, CHI, Keith 6 (Ruutu, Wisniewski),
5:14. |
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| Shootout - SJ: Plihal
(miss), Cheechoo (miss), Pavelski (goal), Roenick (goal). CHI: Kane (goal),
Havlat (miss), Sharp (miss), Lang (miss), Barker (miss). |
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| 1st period - Burrish,
CHI (roughing), 0:17; Burrish, CHI (fightin major), 0:17; Murray, SJ (fighting
major), 0:17; Rivet, SJ (cross checking), 6:32; Mithcell, SJ (hooking), 10:48;
Wisniewski, CHI (holding), 12:24; Carle, SJ (hooking), 14:13. |
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| 2nd period - Barker, CHI
(interference), 4:07; Sharp, CHI (hooking), 4:31; Sopel, CHI (10 minute
misconduct), 5:35; Seabrook, CHI (roughing), 6:06; Burish, CHI (roughing),
6:06; Bernier, SJ (roughing), 6:06; Roenick, SJ (roughing) 6:06; Bench, SJ (too
many men), 10:00; Cheechoo, SJ (hooking), 12:47; Sharp, CHI (slashing),
17:26. |
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| 3rd period - Havlat, CHI
(tripping), 12:45. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| CHI - Khabibulin |
40 |
38 |
| SJ - Nabokov |
21 |
19 |
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2 |
3 |
OT |
T |
| CHI |
4 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
21 |
| SJ |
13 |
13 |
8 |
6 |
40 |
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| Referees: Furlatt,
Rooney. Linesmen: Lazarowich, Wheler. |
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