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Donskoi's offfense not
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Sharks goes 0-for-3 on homestand in SO loss
to Ducks
The absence of any offensive punch continues to
cost the Sharks. They wrapped up a winless 3-game home stand on Monday night by
dropping a 3-2 shootout decision to the Anaheim Ducks at SAP Center. Home is
supposed to be were teams are supposed to be comfortable, enough so to actually
win games. That's not the case for San Jose, who dropped to 6-6-1. There losing
record on home ice, is the reason they've fallen out of the top 8 in the
Western Conference.
With the parity in the NHL, every win and loss
means leap-frogging someone else in the standings either upwards or in the
wrong direction. San Jose has moved from 4th to 9th place in the matter of two
games. Missing chances at home are magnified, because teams tend to perform
better on familiar ice.
The Sharks seem to be the exception. Their
road record is actually better then the product they're offering up to the home
crowd. Monday night's failure was their 7th in 13 tries this season at SAP
Center.
Things looked promising early, but a 2nd period lapse erased
all the work to start on the right foot.
Joonas Donskoi kicked off the
scoring with a goal 3:31 into the game after Logan Couture picked Dennis
Rasmussen's pocket inside the Ducks blueline and slid a lead pass to his
Finnish linemate. Donskoi had the momentum on any defender, skating in on Reto
Berra with nothing between him and the Ducks goaltender. The winger deeked left
before sliding the puck between Berra's pads for his 6th goal of the season.
Martin Jones stoned Corey Perry on a chance from the doorstep after
the Sharks nemesis found himself at the top of the crease with the puck. The
Ducks forward tried lifting a shot from 3 feet out, but Jones got his glove in
front of it for the key save.
Logan Couture tried to glove a puck
midway through the period which earned him a trip to the dressing room for some
treatment. He would return to start the 2nd period, but would make a repeat
trip after catching a stick to the face in the 3rd period.
Perry would
tie the game 45 seconds into the 2nd period when he slipped to the left side
and jammed home a Brandon Montour pass from the right point. Justin Braun had
the defensive assignment on Perry, but was crossed up by the pass and stumbled
over himself as Perry was busy shooting the puck past Martin Jones.
A
Kevin Labanc hooking penalty midway through the period setup the next Anaheim
goal. Rickard Rakell punched a rebound past Jones at 11:39 after a Perry shot
bounced off Jones. The Sharks netminder tried to glove the rebound, but it sat
about 8 inches past his reach. Rakell swooped in as Labanc was exiting the
penalty box and jammed it home for his 8th tally of the season.
Donskoi tied the game at 8:19 of the 3rd period after Jakob Silfverberg was
sent off for slashing Joe Thornton. The Sharks pushed the puck to the front of
the net, where Tomas Hertl bounced a shot off of something that kicked over to
Donskoi for the secondary shot that beat Berra.
San Jose put 20 shots on Berra in the 3rd period, but
they couldn't get the go-ahead goal when they needed it. Tomas Hertl pushed a
shot off the right post with 6 minutes left in the game, but that was as close
as they would come.
The overtime period was a coin flip, but neither
team could get a quality shot on net. Joe Thornton had the last possession of
the night, but he fumbled the puck in the Ducks zone to kill any idea of a late
winner.
The shootout went 9 rounds.
Donskoi, Brent Burns and
Tim Heed converted in the shootout for San Jose, but the Ducks scored four
times to take the game. Perry, Cam Fowler and Brandon Montour put pucks past
Jones in the shootout. Tomas Hertl's miss in the 9th round setup Antoine
Vermette for the game winner.
Game Notes:
* Brent Burns
continues to be snake bit. The Defenseman had 7 shots in the game, and had 4
blocked and 4 miss the net.
* Joonas Donskoi was the Sharks offense,
but his 2 goals still resulted in an even plus/minus for the game.
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Anaheim blocked 19 shots in the game. It was more of the perimeter attack
approach that never seems to do much, but Peter DeBoer continues to lean on the
approach.
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2 |
3 |
OT |
SO |
T |
| ANA |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
| SJ |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Donskoi 6 (Couture), 3:31. |
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| 2nd period - 2, ANA,
Perry 4 (Montour, Rakell), 0:45. 3, ANA, Rakell 8 (Perry), 11:39. |
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| 3rd period - 4, SJ,
Donskoi 7 (Hertl, O'Regan), 8:19, (pp). |
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| Shootout - SJ: Couture
(miss), Pavelski (miss), Donskoi (goal), Burns (goal), Labanc (miss), Heed
(goal), O'Regan (miss), Tierney (miss), Hertl (miss). ANA: Perry (goal), Rakell
(miss), Silfverberg (miss), Fowler (goal), Roy (miss), Montour (goal), Shaw
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| 1st period - Braun, SJ
(holding), 12:32. |
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| 2nd period - Labanc, SJ
(hooking), 9:37; Manson, ANA (hooking), 11:59; Wagner, ANA (tripping),
16:00. |
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| 3rd period -
Silfverberg, ANA (slashing), 7:47. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| ANA - Berra |
42 |
40 |
| SJ - Jones |
30 |
28 |
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2 |
3 |
OT |
T |
| ANA |
10 |
13 |
7 |
0 |
30 |
| SJ |
6 |
13 |
20 |
3 |
42 |
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| Referees: Luxmore,
Hanson. Linesmen: Miller, Amell. |
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