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Ducks make a statement 4 goal 2nd period kills Sharks 2/6/07 -
by Mike Lee
Round one of the Sharks home-and-home series with
the Anaheim Ducks went to the team from down south on Tuesday night in what
amounted to a laugher. Anaheim jumped out to a five goal lead with a 4-goal
2nd period to pummel the Sharks at HP Pavilion 7-4. The shell-shocked Sharks
tried mounting a comeback in the 3rd period, but it was too little, too late
against eh Pacific Division leading Ducks.
Anaheim opened the scoring with a Travis Moen goal 13:16 into the game. Moen
took a Sammy Pahlsson pass right as he cross the Sharks blueline then whipped
around Marc-Edouar Vlasic on the left wing. The Ducks winger then lifted a shot
over Vesa Toskala's left should, roofing the puck for the 1-0 lead.
Pahlsson bagged a goal of his own 32 seconds later when the Sharks failed to
pick up the centerman trailing on the play. Pahlsson fired a shot from 20 feet
that sailed past Toskala's stick.
The Sharks scored a goal late in the period when Ducks goaltender
Jean-Sebastien Giguere kicked in a loose puck after Mike Grier chipped it
between Giguere'e skates. Mark Bell started the sequence by putting the puck on
net from deep in the left corner. Giguere lost sight of it as it lay perched
on the goal line. As the Ducks netminder tried to cover it up by dropping to
the ice, his left skate poked it into the goal.
The Sharks tried to step the physical play to start the 2nd period. Scott
Parker laid out Correy Perry with a big hit in the Ducks zone, which beckoned a
response from George Parros. Parros subtley baited Parker into a fight by
throwing his glove at the Sharks heavy Weight. Parker obliged, but not before
tossing Parros' glove into the stands.
Parker's glove toss was the only thing amusing about the period as the wheels
would fall off after Anahemi scored 4 unanswered goals.
The Sharks found themselves down by two goals again when Andy MacDonald
converted on cross-ice pass from Chris Kunitz at 8:29 of the period after Chris
Pronger started the play with a long lead pass up ice.
Anaheim built there lead to three goal on a huge mistake by rookie defenseman
Matt Carle, who sent a blind pass deep in his own zone to Rob Niedermayer in
the slot. Niedermayer took the pass and snapped it passed Toskala.
Jonathan Cheechoo missed on a sure empty-net goal late it the period on a wrap
around play from behind the Ducks goal. Anaheim took the loose puck and skated
up the ice and converted on a Dustin Penner shot after Penner beat Patrick
Marleau in a foot race up the slot.
Moen would score his second goal of the evening two minutes later on a counter
attack after Thornton missed on a shot on Giguere. Rob Niedermayer simply
carried the puck up ice, then fed Moen in the slot with a pass as Rob Davison
failed to get position on Moen.
Marleau would score a meaningless goal to open the 3rd period on a wrap-around
chance after Giguere left the goal exposed. The goal came on the power play,
which broke a 1-for-31 drought on the man advantage.
Cheechoo would add a pair of goals in a 1:51 span cut the Ducks lead to 6-4.
The Sharks winger started things by converting the Sharks second straight power
play chance after Perry was sent off for interference. Cheechoo would then
score his 18th of the season on a long shot from the high slot after circling
around the Ducks zone.
The Sharks tried to mount a wild comeback after Pahlsson was sent off for
holding with 3:34 to play, but Cheechoo bounced a shot off the crossbar.
Ryan Getzlaf ended things with an empty-net goal after stripping Joe Thornton
of the puck at center ice. The two teams resume their brief series with a game
in Anaheim on Wednesday.
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ANA |
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SJ |
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1st period - 1, ANA, Moen 8 (Pahlsson),
13:16. 2, ANA, Pahlsson 8 (R. Niedermayer, S. Niedermayer), 13:48. 3, SJ, Grier
11 (Bell, Brown), 19:09. |
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2nd period - 4, ANA, McDonald 16 (Kunitz,
Pronger), 8:29. 5, ANA, R. Niedermayer 5 (unassisted), 11:51. 6, ANA, Penner 18
(Marchant, Pronger), 16:13. 7, ANA, Moen 9 (R. Niedermayer, Beauchemin),
18:27. |
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3rd period - 8, SJ, Marleau 28 (Clowe,
Vlasic), 1:19, (pp). 9, SJ, Cheechoo 17 (Marleau, Thornton), 12:26, (pp). 10,
SJ, Cheechoo 18 (Marleau, Thornton), 14:17. 11, ANA, Getzlaf 20 (unassisted),
18:23, (sh, en). |
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1st period - Penner, ANA (hooking), 9:18; S.
Niedermayer, ANA (hooking), 15:47. |
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2nd period - Parros, ANA (fighting major),
6:43; PArker, SJ (fighting major), 6:43; O'Brien, ANA (roughing), 9:30;
Rissmiller, SJ (tripping), 9:30; McLaren, SJ (roughing), 9:30; McDonald, ANA
(interference), 11:41; Grier, SJ (roughing), 11:41; O'Brien, ANA (hooking),
19:27. |
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3rd period - Perry, ANA (interference),
12:04; Pahlsson, ANA (holding), 16:26. |
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Shots |
Saves |
ANA - Giguere |
38 |
34 |
SJ - Toskala |
30 |
24 |
SJ - empt net | 1 | 0 |
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2 |
3 |
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ANA |
16 |
12 |
3 |
31 |
SJ |
9 |
11 |
18 |
38 |
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Referees: Chris Lee, Tim Peel. Linesmen: Thor
Nelson, Mark Pare. |
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