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Sharks throw a 7 spot at the
Oil
Kane and Donskoi each score a pair in big
win
The Sharks needed a game like Tuesday night's
white-washing of the Edmonton Oilers at SAP Center. San Jose pummeled the
Oilers 7-2 on a night where anyone in a teal jersey could do no wrong. The
Sharks scored in bushels, which included responses on the two occasions where
the Oilers got pucks past goaltender Aaron Dell. Dell made 20 saves to help San
Jose win for the fourth time in a row.
The win also keeps the Sharks
perfect in 2019, having won all four games in January to keep pace in the
Pacific Division. Trailing the Calgary Flames and Vegas Golden Knights in the
standings, San Jose kept both teams within their sites.
The Sharks beat
the Oilers 7-4 on December 29th in Edmonton.
This one seemed destined
to tilt in San Jose's favor from the get go. Edmonton is scrambling to right
their ship, but the hockey gods seemed dead set on siding with the Sharks. Case
in point. Evander Kane's helped dirty the score sheet 6:37 into the game with a
pin-ball goal from the left wing boards. His apparent pass deflected off Kyle
Brodziak's stick, then clipping Caleb Jones skate in the slot. The latter
deflection sent the puck perfectly through goaltender Cam Talbot's pads for the
1-0 lead.
Alexander Petrovic was forced to bear hug Marcus Sorensen on
a breakaway chance 6 minutes later, prompting referee Francis Charron to call a
penalty shot. Sorensen made good use of the call by snapping a shot past
Talbot's blocker for his 8th goal of the season.
A Tim Heed hooking
penalty setup the first of two Edmonton goals. Alex Chiasson converted at 14:35
of the period on the by redirecting a Connor McDavid feed from the left side.
Chiasson was parked at the top of the crease when McDavid skated off the left
wing boards and tapped home a feed for his 17th goal of the season.
San Jose responded less than a minute later with a highlight reel goal. The
Sharks forward took a Tim Heed feed at the blueline then floated up the right
wing. Donskoi then cut to his left toward the slot and lifting a backhand
chance that slipped through Talbot's pads for the first of his two goals on the
night.
Kane made it a three goal lead 6:32 into the 2nd period on a
goal that deflected off his right skate as he sat parked on the right side of
the Oilers crease. Brent Burns fired a pass from the left side that made a 90
turn after bouncing off Kane's skate blade.
That would spell the end
for Talbot, who was replaced by Mikko Koskinen. The Sharks wouldn't be any less
abusive to the Oilers backup, although the change looked like it might spark
the Oilers. Milan Lucic broke a 41-game goalless drought with a tally at 10:18.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins setup the goal with a feed from the right wing after
drawing two Sharks defenders to the strong side of the ice. Lucic swept in on
the left wing and easily lifted a shot past Dell for his 2nd goal of the
season. The maligned forward has struggled mightily in is second season with
the Oilers.
San Jose responded with a power play goal five minutes
later after Kris Russell was sent off for holding. Brent Burns scored his 8th
goal of the season by snapping a shot from just inside the right dot. Burns
received a feed from Erik Karlsson at the right point then proceeded to skate
in on net with no Oilers opposing his path. Koskinen tried to get his glove on
the shot, but it clipped off the top of the mitt, clanking off the crossbar
before finding twine.
Joe Thornton cashed in on more of the Sharks
puck luck 1:04 into the 3rd period when his shit from the top of the left
circle hit Adam Larsson's skate and changed directions on Koskinen, slipping
through the goaltender's pads similarly to the game's opening goal.
Donskoi tacked on his second goal of the night by jamming home a rebound off a
Kane shot from the right side. Kane and Donskoi forced the issue by moving the
puck to the goal mouth in an attempt to score. That resulted in good things, as
Kane tried to push a shot past Koskinen. The puck kicked over to Donskoi who
swept home his 13th goal of the season.
Game Notes:
*
The Sharks were playing under the watch of their fathers, who observed from a
luxury box and will join the team on their trip to Vegas on Thursday. Perhaps
San Jose will fare better against the Golden Knights with their dads there to
put the kabosh on any unnecessary partying.
* Erik Karlsson followed
up his three assist game against the Los Angeles Kings with another three
helpers on Tuesday night.
* Joonas Donskoi's two goals gives him 7
tallies in his last 7 games. The Finnish winger has come alive in the last two
weeks after a less than stellar 2017-18 season.
* Joakim Ryan and
Kevin Labanc were the only Sharks to record negative plus-minus ratings.
Brendan Dillon was a +3, padding his team high +21 rating.
* Labanc
and Melker Karlsson were the only Sharks skaters not to record a shot on goal
in the game. Evander Kane had 7 of the Sharks 36 shots.
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| 1st period - 1, SJ, Kane
15 (Hertl, E. Karlsson), 6:37. 2, SJ, Sorensen 9 (penalty shot), 12:57. 3, EDM,
Chiasson 17 (McDavid, Nurse), 14:35, (pp). 4, SJ, Donskoi 12 (Heed, Goodrow),
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| 2nd period - 5, SJ, Kane
16 (Burns, Meier), 6:32. 6, EDM, Lucic 2 (Nugent-Hopkins, Puljujarvi), 10:18.
7, SJ, Burns 8 (E. Karlsson, Meier), 15:37, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 8, SJ,
Thornton 8 (Dillon, Radil), 1:04. 9, SJ, Donskoi 13 (Kane, E. Karlsson),
10:44. |
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| 1st period - Petrovic,
EDM (PS - holding on breakaway), 12:57; Heed, SJ (hooking), 13:34; Kassian, EDM
(hooking), 16:19. |
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| 2nd period - Ryan, SJ
(delay of game - puck over glass), 2:41; Bench, EDM (too many men), 3:53;
Couture, SJ (hooking), 11:33; Russell, EDM (holding), 13:56. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| EDM - Talbot |
17 |
13 |
| EDM - Koskinen |
19 |
16 |
| SJ - Dell |
22 |
20 |
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10 |
5 |
22 |
| SJ |
12 |
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13 |
36 |
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| Referees: Charron,
Morton. Linesmen: Berg, Pancich. |
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