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Believe it, Sharks score
9 Sharks celebrate MLK Day with goal
outburst
The knock on San Jose the past few games has been
the absence of scoring from their second and third lines. That was more than
remedied on Monday night as the Sharks scorched the Calgary Flames 9-1 at HP
Pavilion on Monday night. San Jose set a franchise record with eight different
players scoring goals. It was such a feeding frenzy that 14 of 18 skaters
recorded points for San Jose.
The Sharks opened things up and put
three pucks past former Sharks netminder Mikka Kiprusoff in the first 15
minutes of the contest. They would repeat that by scoring three goals in each
remaining period, man-handling Calgary . Kiprusoff wouldnt see the end of
the game, getting pulled after surrendering the first six Shark goals.
Its nice to win a game, one like that where you have a little bit
of a cushion to use guys differently and then secondly to see a number of
different names on the score sheet," said SHarks head coach Todd McLellan. "Not
15, 12, and 19 all the time. It was a good night but we need to see more of it
on a consistent basis.
Joe Pavelski started the barrage with his
10th goal of the season at 4:07 on an 18-foot shot from the right side that
beat Kiprusoff between the five-hole.
Manny Malhotra made it 2-0
Sharks just over two minutes later on a rush up the right side. Malhotra took a
feed from Dan Boyle at center ice, then turned on the jets, whipping around
Flames defenseman Dion Phaneuf. The rangy Sharks forward snapped the 12-foot
shot that slipped just inside the right post, giving Malhotra his 8th tally of
the season.
Seto really created that space for me by jumping through
the defenseman," said Malhotra. It was just execution of what we wanted to do
tonight."
Nichol deposited a backhand chance from the left side at
14:34, after Kiprusoff went down trying to stop a Devin Setoguchi shot. Nichol
gathered the rebound near the left dot and yanked hi 2nd goal of the season
into a wide-open net. It wqas his first tally in 26 games.
It's nice to
get rewarded," said Nichol. "We put a lot of hard work in our line. It's nice
to get a few bounces here and there. That's why you play the game. It's fun to
score and we have our roles, but it's nice to chip in and help the guys out
that way."
San Jose made it a 4-goal lead at 12:36 of the 2nd period on
a nice counter attack. Ryane Clowe carried the puck up the left wing, hitting
Nichol with a pass right at the Flames blueline. Nichol uncorked a shot from
between the circles that Kiprusoff stopped, but th netminders momentum
carried him from right to left, opening up the right side of the net. Jed
Ortmeyer crashed the net and poked home the rebound for his first goal in 27
games.
Setoguchi helped setup a 5th goal by drawing a charging penalty
on Rene Bourque after he leveled the Flames winger. San Jose converted on the
ensuing power play after Joe Thornton created a turnover in the Flames zone,
allowing Dan Boyle to send a pass to Dany Heatley who was uncontested in front
of the Calgary net. Heatley gathered the puck and rifled a shot off Kiprusoff
into the net, giving him a league leading 12th power play goal.
The feeding frenzy continued less than two minutes
later when a shot by Nichol was stopped by Kiprusoff, but wasnt
controlled. Clowe jumped in on the scoring action and took two whacks at the
puck before banging it home from the doorstep for this 11th of the season.
Flames head coach Brent Sutter would start the 3rd period with Curtis
McElhinney in net, but that provided little relief for Calgary .
Following up his two-goal performance on Saturday night, Setoguchi scored the
prettiest goal of the game 4:48 into the 3rd period, after beating Robyn Regehr
around the left side. Setoguchi got position on the Flames defender, then
dragged the puck past McElhinney after cutting to the right post. McElhinney
got his paddle back, but the shot deflected off the goaltenders stick and
into the goal.
Theyre just going in right now," added
McLellan. "The last two games they just didnt go in for them. It seems
like anything they threw at the net was going in tonight. Thats sometimes
the way it goes. The hockey gods treat you a little differently. You get
stopped on a number of chances then they start going in.
Regehr
would break Evgeni Nabokovs shutout bid at 7:41, on a long slap shot that
slipped inside the left post.
Rob Blake would score his first goal in
16 games on a power play after Bourque took an elbowing penalty late in the
period. Blake uncorked a shot from the point that found its way through
traffic.
Heatley tacked on his second goal of he game 33 seconds later
after sweeping home a deflection off McElhinney after Patrick Marleau bounced a
shot off the Flames goaltender.
To insult to injury, Eric Nystrom took
a 4-minute high sticking penalty on Pavelski with just over three minutes to
play, even though it was Douglas Murray who caught his teammate with his stick
blade.
"I think it [the game] was pretty complete," said Pavelski. "We
knew the start was going to be big for us. We came out of our zone clean to
start the game and it led to a lot of speed coming into the zone. We got lots
of shots and the puck was coming off of him [Kiprusoff] and we found the
rebounds tonight."
Game Notes:
The eight different goal
scorers broke the team record of seven set on January 4, 2007 against the
Detroit Red Wings. The Sharks overcame a 3-0 deficit to win that game 9-4. The
eight goal margin of victory also tied a franchise record.
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2 |
3 |
T |
CGY |
0 |
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1 |
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SJ |
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1st period - 1, SJ,
Pavelski 10 (Murray, Ortmeyer), 4:07. 2, SJ, Malhotra 8 (Boyle, Pavelski),
6:20. 3, SJ, Nichol 2 (Setoguchi, Blake), 14:34. |
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2nd period - 4, SJ,
Ortmeyer 5 (Nichol, Clowe), 12:36. 5, SJ, Heatley 28 (Boyle, Thornton), 16:49,
(pp). 6, SJ, Clowe 11 (Nichol), 18:36. |
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3rd period - 7, SJ,
Setoguchi 13 (Pavelski, Malhotra), 4:48. 8, CGY, Regehr 1 (Dawes, Jokinene),
7:41. 9, SJ, Blake 3 ( Pavelski, Staubitz), 14:06, (pp). 10, SJ, Heatley 29
(Leach, Marleau), 14:39. |
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1st period - Pardy, CGY
(tripping), 1:35; Prust, CGY (fighting major), 9:04; Staubitz, SJ (fighting
major), 9:04. |
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2nd period - Clowe, SJ
(roughing), 1:31; Huskins, SJ (cross checking), 4:05; Bourque, CGY (charging),
15:37. |
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3rd period -
Setoguchi, SJ (high sticking), 9:09; Bourque, CGY (elbowing), 12:27; Bourque,
CGY (fighting major), 12:27; Mitchell, SJ (fighting major), 12:27; Nystrom, CGY
(high sticking double minor), 16:43. |
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Shots |
Saves |
CGY - Kiprusoff |
34 |
28 |
CGY - McElhinney |
12 |
9 |
SJ - Nabokov |
22 |
21 |
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2 |
3 |
T |
CGY |
4 |
8 |
10 |
22 |
SJ |
17 |
17 |
12 |
46 |
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Referees: Rehman,
VanMassenhoven. Linesmen: Heyer, Lazarowich. |
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