|
|
Sharks salvage a game from
Detroit
Marleau's shootout winner finally defeats
Red Wings
The marquee match-up of the week came to a head on
Thursday night in the Motor City , as the Sharks and Red Wings squared off for
the final time in the regular season. San Jose was 0-for-3 against the Red
Wings, but when the smoke cleared, they skated out of Detroit with a 3-2
shootout victory. Patrick Marleau scored the only goal in the shootout.
Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov stopped a career high 50 shots through regulation and
overtime, then denied all three shooters in the shootout to lead San Jose.
Having played less than 24 hours earlier in Columbus , the Sharks
could have mailed this one in, but they seemed intent on mixing it up with the
Red Wings. The first five minutes of the game was a feisty engagement, filled
with lots of solid hits.
The Red Wings would outshoot the Sharks 19-9 in the
opening period, fueled by three power plays. A Jed Ortmeyer interference
penalty at 11:55 setup the game’s first goal. Johan Franzen converted sent
a simple wrist shot from the right wing on net, but Nabokov failed to glove the
shot. The puck deflected off Nabokov’s glove and into the net.
Joe Thornton knotted things up just 25 seconds later, on an unusual scoring
chance. Defenseman Niclas Wallin threw the puck wide of the net, but it kicked
off the end boards, right back to Thornton on the left side of the crease. The
big centerman pivoted toward the net as Wallin’s shot sailed past him, so
he was in perfect position to sweep the rebound into the wide open net.
Detroit went back on the power play at 14:05 after Dan Boyle was sent
off for tripping. Rob Blake sent a message by lowering the boom on Tomas
Holmstrom with a big hit behind the Sharks net. Holmstrom evened things up with
a cross check to Wallin in front of San Jose ’s net.
Detroit
peppered Nabokov with a series of shots over the last two minutes of the
period, but it would be San Jose that would strike before the period expired.
Dwight Helminen pumped a Torrey Mitchell feed past Red Wings goaltender Jimmy
Howard from the slot, after Mitchell circled out to the left dot from around
the back of the net. With three defenders converging on Mitchell, Helminen sat
perched in the slot unabated. The youngster ripped the feed into a wide open
net for his first goal as a Shark.
San Jose opened the 2nd period with a little jump in
their step after taking the lead prior to the first intermission. Joe Pavelski
narrowly missed making it a 3-1 game when his shot two minutes into the period
clanked off the left post. Jody Shelley would follow that up later in the
period with his own shot that hit the crossbar.
Nabokov was forced to
make a circus save moments later, when Jason Williams put a shot on net from
point blank range. Holmstrom was a marked man taking another pop by Brad
Staubitz. The wide open period got interesting, when Howard had to make a big
save off the stick of Ortmeyer after Helminen set him up with a centering pass
in the slot.
The Red Wing tied the game with just over seven minutes
remaining in regulation when Jason Williams put a nifty toe-drag move on Ryane
Clowe, then roofed a shot that lifted over Nabokov’s shoulder for his 4th
goal of the season.
Things got spirited when Jonathan Ericsson and
Clowe dropped the gloves a minute later. Rob Blake would get called for
tripping Datsyuk with 5:49 to play, but San Jose would kill off the two minute
infraction.
Regulation would end with the score deadlocked at 2-2,
but San Jose decided to make things really interesting when Blake took another
tripping penalty in the extra session, giving the Red Wings a full two minute
power play.
The Sharks penalty killing unit came up big during the
4-on-3, getting the game to the shootout, where Marleau took care of business.
Game Notes:
Holmstrom returned to the Detroit lineup
after another stint on the shelf to nurse his bum knee.
 |
|
| What did you think of
this article? Post your comments on the Feeder Forums |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
 |
What did you
think of this game? Post your comments on the
Feeder Forums |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
OT |
SO |
T |
| SJ |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
| DET |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
| 1st period - 1, DET,
Franzen 2 (Zetterberg, Lidstrom), 12:13, (pp). 2, SJ, Thornton 16 (Wallin,
Boyle), 12:38. 3, SJ, Helminen 1 (Mmitchell, Nichol), 19:50. |
|
|
|
|
|
| 3rd period - 4, DET,
Williams 4 (Lebda, Holmstrom), 12:55. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Shootout - DET: Datsyuk
(miss), Williams (miss), Bertuzzi (miss). SJ: Pavelski (miss), Clowe (miss),
Marleau (goal). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1st period - Clowe, SJ
(elbowing), 3:41; Draper, DET (holding), 6:42; ORtmeyer, SJ (interference),
11:55; Boyle, SJ (tripping), 14:05; Holmstrom, DET (goaltender interference),
14:58. |
|
|
| 2nd period -
Thornton , SJ (hooking), 5:46; Nichol, SJ (roughing), 19:39; Miller, DET
(roughing), 19:39. |
|
|
| 3rd period -
Clowe, SJ (fighting major), 13:43; Ericsson, DET (fighting major), 13:43;
Blake, SJ (tripping), 14:11. |
|
|
| Overtime - Blake, SJ
(tripping), 2:39. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
52 |
50 |
| DET - Howard |
26 |
24 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
OT |
T |
| SJ |
9 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
26 |
| DET |
19 |
14 |
17 |
2 |
52 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Referees: Dwyer,
O'Halloran. Linesmen: Mach, Brisebois. |
|
|
|
|
|
