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SJ starts road trip with 6-3 win in Detroit
1/14/2025 - By Mike Lee

The Sharks kicked of a 5-game road trip with a stop in the Motor City on Tuesday night. San Jose received goal scoring for 6 different skaters to snap the Detroit Red Wings 7-game winning streak. The Red Wings were vying to set a league high for consecutive wins this season, but the Sharks had other plans. San Jose scored a pair of 1st period goals and then fended off several comeback attempts by the Red Wings to start the trip in the win column.

Much maligned goaltender Alexander Georgiev earned the victory with a solid performance in net. The netminder allowed three goals, but was nails late as the Red Wings tried to mount a final push in the 3rd period.

The Sharks flipped the script on their last match-up with the Red Wings by scoring first. Jan Rutta uncorked a long shot from the right point that slipped past goaltender Ville Husso. The Sharks drew Husso over to cover the right side of the net, allowing Rutta to catch the inside of the left post past Husso's extended glove hand.

Mario Ferraro did the one thing the Sharks didn't want to do, which was to take a penalty at 15:42. The Red Wings have elevated themselves to the second best power play unit in the NHL, to staying out of the box should have been a priority for San Jose.

Luckily for them, William Eklund turned the tables on the Red Wings, when he grabbed a puck at center ice. He was cut off by a pair of Detroit defenders, but he saw Nico Sturm racing up the ice on the off wing. Veering to his right to grab the puck the puck, he flipped a backhand feed back toward the center of the rink where Sturm grabbed it and raced in on Husso.

A head fake to the right and a move to the left forced Husso to split his pads which allowed Sturm to fire a shot between them, finding the back of the net for his 5th goal of the season.

Detroit struck quickly to open the 2nd period when Vladimir Tarasenko punched home a deflection from the slot after Simon Edvinsson bounced a shot off the side of the net. The puck kicked right out to Tarasenko who directed it inside the right post in th eblicnk of an eye.

Ty Dellandrea was called for tripping 3:12 to put the Sharks in another precarious position. San Jose would get through the 2 minutes unscathed with strong work in front of Georgiev.

Macklin Celebrini had the best look at the Red Wings net in the period when he found himself with the puck out in front of Husso. The rookie put a pair of shot on net in succession from in tight.

The not-so-rookieish rookie picked things up to start the 3rd period by skating the puck out of the right corner and sending a bullet pass to Eklund on the far side for a slam dunk goal. Celebrini's pass cut through the crease so quickly that Husso either never saw it or was too late to try and get a stick on it. The goal was Eklund's 10th of the season, giving him 33 points on the season. .

Tarasenko scored his second of the night, which was almost identical to his earlier tally. Erik Gustafsson fired a shot that bounced off the end board, kicking out to the spot where Tarasenko scored his first goal. The Russian forward's lightning quick hands, put the puck past Georgiev before the Sharks goaltender could even react.

Albert Johansson was sent off for hooking at 6:50 to give the Sharks their first power play of the game. Celebrini would find Mikael Granlund as the veteran sliced toward the right post. Granlund faked out Husso with a move to his right before lifting the puck home for the power play goal.

Detroit responded once again when Lucas Raymond converted off a set play following a faceoff win in the Sharks zone.

The Sharks pushed their lead back to 2 goals 61 seconds later when Tyler Toffoli converted his 16th goal of the season. The Sharks forward collected an Eklund feed on the left side and put the puck past Husso from a tight angle.

The Red Wings pulled Husso with 3 minutes to play trailing by a pair. Mario Ferraro grabbed a loose puck deep in his own zone and sent it the length of the ice for the empty-net goal to cap the scoring.

The victory also allowed the Sharks to sweep the season series with Detroit.

Game Notes:

* Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Alexander Wennberg returned to the Sharks lineup. San Jose sent defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin to the San Jose Barracuda.

* Klim Kostin and Nikolai Kovalenko did not travel with the team.

* Red Wings forward Tyler Motte caught an edge toward the end of the 2nd period and went face first into the end boards behind the Sharks goal. He would require attention and was helped to the dressing room.

* William Eklund finished with a 3- point night (1 goal, 2 assists), and Tyler Toffoli (1 goal, 1 assist) and Macklin Celebrini (2 assists) finished with 2-point games.

* Alexandar Georgiev turned in his best performance as a Shark since being acquired in the Mackenzie Blackwood trade. The netminder finished with 25 saves to earn his 2nd win in teal.


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Scoring
1 2 3 T
SJ 2 0 4 6
DET 0 1 2 3
1st period - 1, SJ, Rutta 2 (Smith, Wennberg), 1:45. 2, SJ, Sturm 5 (Eklund, Vlasic), 17:41, (sh).
2nd period - 3, DET, Tarasenko 5 (Edvinsson, Berggren), 1:28.
3rd period - 4, SJ, Eklund 10 (Celebrini, Toffoli), 0:26. 5, DET, Tarasenko 6 (Gustafsson, Veleno), 6:05. 6, SJ, Granlund 12 (Celebrini, Toffoli), 7:43, (pp). 7, DET, Raymond 18 (Larkin), 9:56. 8, SJ, Toffoli 16 (Eklund), 10:57. 9, SJ, Ferraro 4 (unassisted), 18:22, (en).
Penalties
1st period - Ferraro, SJ (holding), 15:42.
2nd period - Dellandrea, SJ (tripping), 3:12.
3rd period - Johansson, DET (hooking), 6:50.
Goaltending
Shots Saves
SJ - Georgiev 28 25
DET - Husso 24 19
DET - empty net 1 0
Shots On Goal
1 2 3 T
SJ 6 9 10 25
DET 12 6 10 28
Power Play Conversion
SJ 1 of 1
DET 0 of 2
3 Stars of the Game
William Eklund
Vladimir Tarasenko
Tyler Toffoli
Attendance
Little Caesars Arena - 19,515
Officials
Referees: #43 Morgan MacPhee, #9 Dan O'Rourke. Linesmen: #64 Brandon Gawryletz, #94 Bryan Pancich.





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