|
|
Sharks avenge OT
loss Arnott taken off on stretcher in 4-1 SJ
win 11/17/08 - By Mike Lee
A week
ago, the Sharks were kicking themselves for blowing a lead against the
Nashville Predators. On Monday night, they were kicking those same Predators in
the teeth en route to a 4-1 win at the Sommet Center . Four different Sharks
scored to help pace San Jose to a 3rd consecutive win, their 16th of the
season. San Jose didnt win their 16th game last season until the middle
of December.
For the second straight night, the Sharks took a 2-0 lead
in the 1st period, but rather than allow their opposition to claw back, the
Sharks kept their foot on the gas. Devin Setoguchi would score his 11th goal on
the power play on a bang-bang play in tight. Joe Thornton setup the goal with
one of his patented feeds from behind the net.
The Sharks received
offensive help from an unlikely source, when Jody Shelley chipped in his 1st
goal of the season from a scrum in front of Predators goaltender Dan Ellis.
With Brad Staubitz fighting for control of the puck, Shelley drove into the
pile and pooched the shot over Ellis.
The game was marred by a serious
injury to Predators centerman Jason Arnott, who was checked head first into the
Sharks goal with 2.9 seconds remaining in the period. Driving to the net,
Arnott was clipped by Joe Pavelski and appeared to jam his head into the back
of the goal after sailing over Sharks goaltender Brian Boucher.
Arnott
lay facedown on the ice for several minutes and was taken off the ice on a
backboard. A report from the hospital during the 2nd period indicated that
Arnott was moving his extremities.
Everyone in the building expected
the Predators to come out firing, but it was the Sharks that stepped up play.
Tomas Plihal would extend the Sharks lead to 3-0 at 7:43 on a fluke play. With
the Predators trying to gain the offensive zone, the puck cycled around the
right wing boards, before deflecting out to Plihal who grabbed the loose puck
and raced up the left side an ripped a shot past Ellis.
Patrick
Marleau pushed the lead to 4-0 less than 4 minutes later on a strong play in
front of Ellis. The Sharks captain out-muscled Ryan Suter for the puck as the
pair jostled for position at the top of the crease. The puck kicked out to
Marleaus left, allowing him to sweep it into the Nashville goal.
Things would start to get chippy once San Jose had established their big lead.
Shelley and Greg de Vries dropped the gloves for the first of their two scraps
on the night.
Boucher came up big in the 3rd period, with a series of
tough saves. The Sharks didnt make things any easier on their netminder
by sending Brad Lokowich and Marcel Goc to the box on overlapping penalties.
Boucher made a pair of sprawling saves to maintain the Sharks big lead.
Joe Thornton and Scott Nichol mixed it up early in a lop-sided affair
that looked more like a vaudeville act than a fight with Thornton out-reaching
the shorter Nichol by a foot. Staubitz and Jordan Tootoo squared off to settle
a score that began brewing earlier in the game. The Shelley de Vries
main event capped the evening with Shelley opening up de Vries nose with
a nasty uppercut.
David Legwand finally solved Boucher at 9:27 while the
Sharks were on their 7th power play of the game. Legwand took a lead pass from
Dan Hamhuis after cheating at the Sharks blueline. Boucher made the initial
save, but Legwand jammed home the rebound to snap the shutout bid.
Sharks head coach Todd McLellan called a timeout following the goal to let his
players know that he was not pleased with their play on the previous sequence.
Boucher would closeout the contest with 32 saves to earn his 6th win of the
season.
Game Notes:
The quick two game trip concluded
the Sharks father's trip, which started Saturday in Chicago. The team will stay
in Nashville Monday night and return home on Tuesday. The player's fathers were
allowed to attend team meetings and practices over the course of the past three
days. The group sat perched in a luxury suite at Sommet Center on Monday night
cheering their sons on. Staubitz recorded his 1st NHL point, assisting on
Shelley's goal.
|
|
What did you think of
this article? Post your comments on the Feeder Forums |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
What did you
think of this game? Post your comments on the Feeder Forums |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
T |
SJ |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
NSH |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
1st period - 1, SJ,
Setoguchi 11 (Thornton, Marleau), 14:38 , (pp). 2, SJ, Shelley 1 (Staubitz,
Blake), 16:05. |
|
|
2nd period - 3, SJ,
Plihal 2 (unassisted), 7:43 . 4, SJ, Marleau 9 (Ehrhoff, Setoguchi),
11:12. |
|
|
3rd period - 5, NSH,
Legwand 3 (Hamhuis, Bonk), 9:27 , (sh). |
|
|
|
|
|
1st period - Zanon, NSH
(holding), 5:44 ; Suter, NSH (interference), 9:31 ; Tootoo, NSH (charging),
14:02 ; Marleau, SJ (hooking), 19:39. |
|
|
2nd period - Weber, NSH
(holding), 1:25; de Vries, NSH (boarding), 4:38; Tootoo, NSH (cross checking),
8:17; Shelley, SJ (fighting major), 11:45; Staubitz, SJ (roughing), 11:45; de
Vries, NSH (fighting major), 11:45; Tootoo, NSH (roughing), 11:45; Lukowich, SJ
(interference), 12:07; Roenick, SJ (slashing), 18:38. |
|
|
3rd period - Lukowich,
SJ (roughing), 2:37; Goc, SJ (tripping), 4:24; Thornton, SJ (fighting major),
6:40; Nichol, NSH (fighting major), 6:40; Staubitz, SJ (fighting major), 6:42;
Tootoo, NSH (fighting major), 6:42; Shelley, SJ (fighting major), 6:46; de
Vries, NSH (fighting major), 6:46; Fiddler, NSH (hooking), 7:31; Lukowich, SJ
(interference), 16:06. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shots |
Saves |
SJ - Boucher |
33 |
32 |
NSH - Ellis |
32 |
28 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
T |
SJ |
14 |
10 |
8 |
32 |
NSH |
5 |
12 |
16 |
33 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Referees: L'Ecuyer,
O'Halloran. Linesmen: Driscoll, Pare. |
|
|
|
|
|