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Manny being
Manny
Malhotra scores two goals in 4-1
win
Playing less than 24 hours after their wild
victory in Atlanta , the Sharks were forced to patch together a lineup in
Philadelphia on Sunday night after losing Devin Setoguchi and Ryan Vesce to
lower body injuries. Sharks head coach also decided to throw backup goaltender
Thomas Greiss out their for good measure, but after all was said and done, the
Sharks ended their 6-game road trip with a commanding 4-1 win over the host
Flyers at the Wachovia Center.
Manny Malhotra scored a pair of big 2nd
period goals, his first two as a Shark, and Greiss stopped 37 shots to earn his
first NHL victory. With Setoguchi and Vesce on the shelf, the Sharks were
forced to recall Logan Couture and Jamie McGinn.
Couture made his NHL
debut, logging 7:01 of ice time on 12 shifts. He won two of three faceoffs and
earned his first trip to an NHL penalty box on a 2nd period tripping call.
Sharks head coach Todd McLellan eased his top prospect into the game, playing
him in safe situations.
McLellan didn’t have the opportunity to
pick and choose his chances for Greiss, other than to start him against former
Sharks backup Brian Boucher. The Flyers announced on Friday that Boucher would
get the nod against his former team, which allowed McLellan to juggle his
goaltending assignments entering the back-to-back games that ended the Sharks
lengthy road trip.
Greiss was on top of his game, keeping his team
close after a 13 shot first period. A Danny Syvret delay of game penalty would
put the Sharks on the power play 5 minutes into the game, and San Jose would
draw first blood.
Dany Heatley would give the Sharks the 1-0 lead on a
jab from the outside of the right post at 6:20 after Joe Thornton threw a puck
on net that Boucher tried to pin the puck up against the pipe. Dan Boyle
started things by firing a puck from the slot that sailed over the net to the
end boards, where Thornton was hovering to gobble up the shot.
The
Flyers would knot things up three minutes later when Darroll Powe ripped a one
time chance from the high slot. Greiss appeared to have a good look at the shot
that slipped just to his left and into the goal.
The Malhotra show
would go into affect in the middle period, when the new Sharks forward teamed
up with Patrick Marleau for his first tallies of the season.
The first goal used a tight angle and a lot of luck to
put the Sharks back in front. Chasing a loose puck behind the Flyers net,
Malhotra beat two defenders to a spot just behind the right post, and tried
centering the puck out into the slot. The puck hit Boucher’s stick and
deflected into the goals 7:51 into the period.
Malhotra would use a
more conventional method to score his second goal, taking a Marleau pass up the
right wing and snapping a shot that sailed over Boucher’s right shoulder
for the 3-1 lead.
A hooking penalty off the faceoff gave the Flyers a
power play 5 minutes into the 3rd period, but a Claude Giroux boarding penalty
34 seconds later evened things up.
With the Flyers gearing for one
last push late, the Sharks turned the tables on Philadelphia , when Jed
Ortmeyer converted with his 3rd goal of the season. With the Sharks buzzing in
front of Boucher, Rob Blake threw a puck on net from between the circles. The
puck bounced off Boucher, right to Marc-Edouard Vlasic, who chipped the puck
over to Ortmeyer on the left side for the slap shot that slipped between
Boucher’s pads.
Game Notes:
The Sharks finished their
trip with a 4 wins and two losses, which is a positive, considering the rough
start they got off to in Washington D.C. , and their stinker in Tampa Bay on
Thursday.
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Heatley 8 (Thornton, Boyle), 6:20, (pp). 2, PHI, Powe 3 (Pyorala, Syvret),
9:44. |
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| 2nd period - 3, SJ,
Malhotra 1 (Marleau, Boyole), 7:51. 4, SJ, Malhotra 2 (Marleau, Ferriero),
10:05. |
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| 3rd period - 5, SJ,
Ortmeyer 3 (Vlasic), 16:51. |
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| 1st period - Syvret, PHI
(delay of game – puck over glass), 5:16; Shelley, SJ (interference),
11:27; Shelley, SJ (fighting major), 11:27; Laperriere, PHI (fighting major),
11:27; Murray, SJ (holding), 14:56. |
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| 2nd period - Richards,
PHI (charging), 1:25; Couture, SJ (tripping), 4:24; Heatley, SJ (interference),
17:04; Demers, SJ (roughing), 17:04; Hartnell, PHI (holding), 17:04; Tollefsen,
PHI (roughing), 17:04. |
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| 3rd period -
Tollefsen, PHI (cross checking), 2:00; Staubitz, SJ (hooking), 5:06; Giroux,
PHI (boarding), 5:40. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Greiss |
38 |
37 |
| PHI - Boucher |
28 |
24 |
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| SJ |
9 |
9 |
10 |
28 |
| PHI |
13 |
10 |
15 |
38 |
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| Referees: Dwyer,
LaRue. Linesmen: Amell, Cormier. |
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