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Tempers flare in Sharks
win
Ducks express frustration at losing
The back end of the Sharks home-and-home series
with the Anaheim Ducks ended with a flurry of fists and bad temper on Sunday
night in Southern California. When the smoke cleared, the Sharks had avenged
their poor performance on Saturday night and left Anaheim with two more points
in the standings after knocking off the Ducks 3-2 in regulation. As the final
seconds of the game ticked off the clock, the Ducks were unhappy with the way
they gift wrapped the game with a series of dumb penalties, so they decided to
take out their frustrations on anyone in a Sharks jersey.
With bodies
and sticks flying everywhere, goalie hunter Corey Perry once again felt it
necessary to go after a Sharks netminder. It was Perry who slashed Evgeni
Nabokov in the back of the knee during a 1-0 Sharks win in Anaheim back on
March 15th. This time, Perry took out his frustration on Brian Boucher, who got
a rare start in net for the Sharks on Sunday night.
Boucher was
already laying face down on the ice after Ryan Getzlaf cross checked him with 5
seconds to play in the game. Perry swooped in and appeared to try and step on
the Sharks netminder. The on-ice officials missed the misdeeds between Perry
and Boucher, because they were busy trying to wrangle the other 9 players on
the ice who were engaged in their own shenanigans.
Joe Thornton went
after Perry as the Ducks winger tried to skate away as if nothing had happened,
but a linesman prevented the Sharks centerman from getting close enough to
express his opinion on the matter.
The Sharks had to overcome another
set of leads by Anaheim, as was the case 24 hours earlier, but this time San
Jose jumped out ahead on a power play goal with 6:41 to play in the game.
Jonathan Cheechoo tried screening Jonas Hiller, while Chris Pronger sat in the
box for tossing the puck over the glass on a clearing attempt, but the puck hit
him in the leg and deflected past the Ducks netminder.
The Ducks
jumped out to an early lead on a Petteri Nokelainen short-handed tally just
5:38 into the game. Scott Neidermayer chipped a puck past Marc-Edouard Vlasic
at the Sharks blueline, while the Ducks were killing an Andrew Ebbett holding
the stick penalty. Vlasic failed to adjust as Nokelainen raced past him toward
Boucher. The Sharks netminder tried waving at the breakaway shot to no avail.
Jeremy Roenick tied the game 2:43 into the 2nd period on a one-timer
from the high slot. Thonrton after a forecheck knocked the puck loose from
Brendan Mikkelson in the right corner. Thornton scooped up the puck as he
skated back toward the blueline, and sent a laser to Roenick 35 feet away.
A Jody Shelley slashing penalty at 11:13 of the period put the Ducks
on the power play for only the second time in the game, but Anaheim converted
on Perry's 31st goal of the season. The Duck took advantage of a deflection of
a Sharks defender as Anaheim carried the puck into the Sharks zone. Teemu
Selanne tried sending a puck deep, but it kicked off Rob Blake and landed on
Perry's stick for the quick chip shot past Boucher.
Anaheim's inability to stay out of the box made it
easier for the Sharks to focus on putting pucks past Hiller, rather than
playing back on their heels as they did on Saturday night.
Rob
Neidermayer was sent off for charging with just over 5 minutes to play in the
middle period and the Sharks converted a minute later. Joe Pavelski took a Dan
Boyle feed just outside the left post, before pivoting to the net and jamming a
shot through Hiller's pads to tie the game once again.
The Sharks
would finish 2-of-7 on the power play, culminating with Cheechoo's tally on the
man advantage late in the 3rd period.
Once fight night ended, both
teams earned 64 minutes in penalties for the final set of infractions after the
final buzzer had sounded.
Game Notes:
Sharks captain
Patrick missed his 4th consecutive game, as he nurses his lower body injury.
Ryane Clowe was also an injury related scratch. Alexei Semenov was a healthy
scratch.
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2 |
3 |
T |
| SJ |
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2 |
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3 |
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| 1st period - 1, ANA,
Nokelainen 4 (S. Neidermayer, MArchant), 5:38, (sh). |
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| 2nd period - 2, SJ,
Roenick 4 (Thornton, Cheechoo), 2:43. 3, ANA, Perry 31 (Selanne, Getzlaf),
11:31, (pp). 4, SJ, Pavelski 24 (Boyle, Ehrhoff), 15:15, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 5, SJ,
Cheechoo 12 (Ehrhoff, Boyle), 13:19, (pp). |
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| 1st period - Ebbett, ANA
(holding the stick), 4:10; Blake, SJ (holding), 9:02. |
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| 2nd period - Brown, ANA
(hooking), 3:46; Shelley, SJ (slashing), 11:13; R, Neidermayer, ANA (charging),
14:13; Wisniewski, ANA (roughing), 18:27. |
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| 3rd period -
Miller, ANA (holding), 10:41; Pronger, ANA (delay of game - puck over glass),
11:41; Perry, ANA (high sticking), 14:22; Cheechoo, SJ (10 min misconduct),
20:00; Thornton, SJ (roughing), 20:00; Vlasic, SJ (roughing), 20:00; Vlasic, SJ
(10 min misconduct), 20:00; Boucher, SJ (goaltender leaving crease), 20:00;
Perry, ANA (roughing), 20:00; Getzlaf, ANA (interference on goaltender), 20:00;
Getzlaf, ANA (roughing), 20:00; Getzlaf, ANA (10 min misconduct), 20:00;
Selanne, ANA (10 min misconduct), 20:00; Ebbet, ANA (roughing), 20:00; Ebbett,
ANA (10 min misconduct), 20:00; |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Boucher |
21 |
19 |
| ANA - Hiller |
26 |
23 |
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2 |
3 |
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| SJ |
6 |
11 |
9 |
26 |
| ANA |
5 |
6 |
10 |
21 |
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| Referees: O'Rourke,
Lee. Linesmen: Sharrers, Wheler. |
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