The Sharks hit the road for the 1st of 6 away from SAP Center on Tuesday with a stop in the Music City. Alex Nedeljkovic made his 2nd start of the season, stopping 32 shots en route to a crazy 3-2 shootout win over the Nashville Predators. The Sharks played solid road hockey and were poised to win in overtime, but Steven Stamkos tied the game with 8 tenths of a second left in regulation. After a wild overtime period, Macklin Celebrini was the only player to score in the overtime to win it for San Jose.

Celebrini was held off the scoresheet in the regulation and overtime periods, but he would beat Juuse Saros to help San Jose earn their 4th win of the season.

In the overtime period Will Smith had a chance to end it on a breakaway chance. Then Ivar Stenberg had a 2-on-1 chance with Celebrini, but the Sharks captain missed side left. Keifer Sherwood then missed on another breakaway chance to frustrate the Sharks.

Nashville was not short of their own chances, but Nedeljkovic bailed out San Jose all night. He made 13 of his 32 saves in the 3rd period and another 4 in the extra session.

Zach Ostapchuk and Nicolas Hague got the crowd into the game early with an extended bout that resulted in both players landing big shots in the fracas.

After fighting off the Predators for the first 5 minutes of the period, San Jose surprised Nashville with a Mason Marchment goal. The Sharks cycled the puck in the Nashville zone before Tyler Toffoli flipped a pass out to the front of the net from the end boards where Marchment had position on Roman Josi for a quick shot that beat Juuse Saros for his 2nd of the season.

Hague liked the coziness of the penalty box that he returned to it at 12:06 after hooking Toffoli. San Jose had a good look midway through the man advantage but Saros swatted it away from danger.

Ostapchuk booked his own return engagement to the sin bin at 14:52, but his stay was longer than Hague's after he was called for a high sticking double minor. San Jose's penalty killers did a yeoman's job of negating all 4 minutes of the penalty. Sharks goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic made a big save in the 3rd minute, ranging to this left to deny Filip Forsberg a quality scoring chance.

Nashville out-shot the Sharks 10-9 in the period, fueled largely from the 4-minute power play, but San Jose carried the 1-0 lead to the 1st intermission.

The Shark had a golden opportunity to double their lead 6 minutes into the 2nd period, but Igor Chernyshov elected to get cute with the puck rather than shoot it from 15 feet in front of the net on a 3-on-3 break. He would then take an interference penalty on the same shift to put the Sharks in another hole.

Brady Skjei just missed tying the game up 15 minutes into the frame when he got lost cutting down the slot and fired a shot off the left post.

Will Smith missed on a golden chance with 3:30 left in the period after dragging the puck across the lot from right to left before attempting a backhand shot. Saros was down, but managed to stretch out his glove hand to deny the chance.

Alex Wennberg then found himself with the puck and nothing between he and Saros with 2:10 to play in the period. The Sharks forward skated in on net but lifted his chance well over the crossbar.

Reid Schafer was sent off for the 2nd time in the period at 18:40 to allow the Sharks to finish the period on the power play. They failed to take advantage of the advantage, continuing on in the 3rd period with their slim 1-goal lead.

Will Smith wouldn't let Saris get the better of him again. The Sharks forward carried a Michael Kesselring drop pass just inside the right circle before snapping home his 3rd goal of the season. Kesselring earned the primary assist for his 1st point as a Shark. Igor Chernyshov earned the secondary assist for his 4th point of the season.

The Sharks would not get away with their 4th minor penalty of the night after Sam Dickinson was whistled for tripping. The Predators power play converted when Ryan O'Reilly was allowed to take multiple hacks at the puck on the doorstep. The last resulted in the puck flipping over Nedeljkovic to make it a 2-1 Sharks lead.

Collin Graf was moved to the top line late in the game and that move almost paid dividends when Macklin Celebrini found his new line mate cutting toward the net with a pass from the left circle.

Nashville pulled Saros with 1:46 to play. That's 1:45 more than the Nashville needed.

In the shootout, O'Reilly, Foreberg and Colton were all denied by Nedeljkovic. Stenberg led off for San Jose and was stopped by Saros.

Game Notes:

* The Sharks were without Darnell Nurse, who suffered an upper body injury in the 6-3 loss to Boston on Tuesday. Nolan Allan replaced Nurse in the lineup after being a scratch in the previous 4 games.

* Will Smith and Keifer Sherwood had 5 shots each. San Jose had 32 in the contest. Defenseman Roman Josi led all skaters with 8 shots.

* Luca Cagnoni continued to struggle as he was pushed off the puck all night.

* The Sharks were 31 of 66 in the faceoff circle (47%)

* The Sharks head to Detroit were they will take on the Red Wings on Saturday. That game is a 4pm start on the West Coast.