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Sharks rip Blackhawks with a 7
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Pavelski leads SJ in rout of Chicago
The Sharks missed out on a chance to beat a
struggling Chicago Blackhawks team six days ago in the Windy City. They
wouldn't make the same mistake Thursday night. The Sharks erupted for 7 goals
to dispatch the Blackhawks 7-2 at SAP Center. Joe Pavelski scored a pair of
goals to lead San Jose, who won for the fourth time in a row on home ice.
Martin Jones made 32 saves to earn his 21st win of the season.
The
suddenly potent Sharks offense followed up their five goal output against the
Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday with a 7 spot that raised their per game goal
scoring average to 5.25 goals over their last four games on SAP Center ice.
While he didn't record a point in the game, the presence of Evander
Kane has fueled Pavelski's game. The Sharks captain suddenly finds himself
leading the team in scoring with 52 points, surpassing defenseman Brent Burns.
Artem Anisimov staked the Blackhawks to an early 1-0 lead with a shot
from the right dot that eluded goaltender Martin Jones high to the stick side.
The Blackhawks forward received a Duncan Keith feed as he circled through the
slot, using a Marc Edouard Vlasic screen to keep Jones from seeing the release.
Joe Pavelski tied the game ten minutes later, one-timing a Brent Burns
feed from the bottom of the left circle. Pavelski's shot hit Blackhawks
goaltender J.F. Berube before deflecting to the top of the net for his 17th
goal of the season.
Logan Couture made it a 2-1 Sharks lead less than
two minutes later when the Sharks pushed the puck down low, then converted when
Mikkel Boedker setup a shot from the to of the crease with a feed from the
right corner. Couture saw Boedker setup and drove right down the slot before
converting the pass for his 27th goal of the season.
Kevin Labanc
created a little breathing room for the Sharks when he slammed home his 8th
goal of the season after Berube got caught out of his net. The Sharks moved the
puck well deep in the zone and when Dylan Demelo pinched, Berube was forced to
cut off an angle by floating out of the crease. Chris Tierney moved the puck to
Labanc in the slot for the easy deposit.
Timo Meier recorded his 17th
goal of the season three minutes later after he tipped a Brendan Dillon shot
while skating between the circles. His stick changed the trajectory of the
Dillon blast, slipping under Berube for the three goal lead.
Pavelski
added his second goal of the evening at 12:14 of the period tapping home a
Joonas Donskoi feed from the right side after the duo raced up ice on a 2-on-1.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic got in on the act with 1.2 seconds
left in the period by banking a shot off Berube's right leg with a shot from
below the end line on the left side. The goal was Vlasic's 10th of the season,
which is a career high for the Sharks defenseman. Berube would play out the
final second of the period, but his night was done. Anton Forsberg replaced him
in net to start the 3rd period.
Forsberg didn't fare much better. His
own defense put a puck past him 2:32 into the 3rd period, when Barclay Goodrow
tried to center a puck to the front of the net and his linemate Melker
Karlsson, but Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith tried to sweep it away from
his goal mouth and ended up pushing it past Forsberg for a 7-1 Sharks lead.
The Blackhawks bookend the sharks touchdown with a nick Schmaltz goal
with 32 seconds left in the game. Schmaltz one timed an Alex Debrincat feed
from the slot for his 18th goal of the season.
Game
Notes:
* Anthony Duclair was awarded a penalty shot late in the 3rd
period after Brent Burns was forced to haul him down after he slipped past the
Sharks defenseman. It didn't hurt the Sharks in the end as Duclair fumbled the
puck as he skated in on the penalty shot and pushed a chance wide left.
* The 7 goals were the most the Sharks have scored in a game since
January of 2016, when they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-0 at SAP Center.
* Mattthew Highmore made his NHL debut for the Blackhawks.
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| 1st period - 1, CHI,
Anisimov 18 (Keith, Kane), 2:12. 2, SJ, Pavelski 17 (Burns, Donskoi), 10:22. 3,
SJ, Couture 27 (Boedker, Hertl), 14:14. |
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| 2nd period - 4, SJ.
Labanc 8 (Tierney, Demelo), 2:13. 5, SJ, Meier 17 (Dillon, Demelo), 5:21. 6,
SJ, Pavelski 18 (Donskoi, Kane), 12:14. 7, SJ, Vlasic 10 (unassisted), 19:58.
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| 3rd period - 8, SJ,
Goodrow 6 (Sorensen, Demelo), 2:32. Duclair, CHI (missed penalty shot), 14:51.
9, CHI, Schmaltz 18 (Debrincat, Dahlstrom), 19:27. |
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| 2nd period - Keith, CHI
(elbowing), 17:58. |
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| 3rd period - Demelo, SJ
(interference), 9:05. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| CHI - Berube |
28 |
22 |
| CHI - empty net |
6 |
5 |
| SJ - Jones |
34 |
43 |
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11 |
15 |
34 |
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9 |
19 |
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| Referees: Furlatt,
Pochmara. Linesmen: Daisy, Shewchyk. |
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