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Puck bounces Sharks way on the
Island
Burns scores game winner on controversial
power play
Sometimes you get the bounces, and sometimes
you don't. The Sharks seemed to get all the bounces on Saturday night on Long
Island, where they knocked off the host Islanders 3-2 in overtime. Joe Pavelski
and Brent Burns had a goal and an assist each, to extend the Sharks win streak
to five games.
The biggest break of the evening, resulted in Burns
game-winning goal in the overtime period. Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic
was assessed a delay of game penalty 29 seconds into the extra period, when the
puck he flipped out of play failed to catch any glass. At least that's what the
on-ice officials believed, assessing Hamonic a 2-minute delay of game penalty
in the extra session.
Playing a man down in overtime is typically a
death sentence, because of the 4-on-4 configuration that the rules call for in
extra time. The Sharks played executioner without a hitch, scoring 38 seconds
into the penalty. Burns took a lateral feed from Dan Boyle between the top of
the circles, took two strides before whipping a shot past Rick DiPietro, who
was making the start in place of former Shark Evgeni Netminder.
The
drama that would have existed with Nabokov in net was replaced with the events
that unfolded in overtime, because Hamonic's infraction shouldn't have been
called. Replays showed that the puck did in fact catch glass, which should have
negated any penalty.
Burns converted and the Sharks moved to a perfect
5-for-5 on their current 6-game road trip.
The victory is one they'll
take, especially since they didn't exactly come across as gang busters though
the first 60 minutes of play. After claiming a 1st period lead, San Jose
surrendered a pair of tallies in the 2nd period to surrender the lead. Logan
Couture bailed them out with his 3rd goal of the year with 6:41 to play in
regulation to setup Burns heroics.
It looked as if DiPietro was going
to have a long night based on how things started. Steve Staois was called for
cross checking 10 seconds into the game, setting up the first of four Shark
power plays. San Jose took 7 seconds to convert on the power play, when Joe
Pavelski put back a deflection to stake the Sharks to the 1-0 lead. Boyle sent
a puck in from the right point, that Patrick Marleau defected on net. The puck
clanked off the left post, but Pavelski was there to punch home his 7th goal of
the season.
John Tavares tied things up with a put-back of his own on
an Islanders power play 3:15 into the 2nd period after Jason Demers was sent
off for hooking. Sharks netminder Thomas Greiss made a diving save on a P.A.
Parenteau blast from the right point, but when he tried to sweep the puck to
his side, he sent it back into the slot, where Tavares was lurking for his 7th
of the season.
The power play continued to play a factor, helping the
Islanders grab the lead 11:28 into the period. Pavelski was called for delay of
game after hoisting a puck over the glass. Michael Grabner redirected a Kyle
Okposo feed for his 3rd goal of the season. Frans Nielsen carried the puck into
the zone before hitting Okposo on the right wing. The winger had the option of
shooting, but elected to throw the puck to Grabner in the slot for the redirect
past Greiss.
San Jose did little to threaten the Islanders, but a
lucky bounce helped them tie the game in the 3rd period. Marc-Edouard Vlasic
started the scoring sequence by firing a shot on net that DiPietro defelcted
with his blocker. The puck kicked out to the right wing, where Burns gathered
it and sent it back on goal. Burns shot hit Islanders captain Mark Streit and
bounced right to Logan Couture in the slot. Couture buried it for his 3rd goal
of the season.
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1 |
2 |
3 |
OT |
T |
| SJ |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| NYI |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Pavelski 7 (Marleau, Boyle), 0:17, (pp). |
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| 2nd period - 2, NYI,
Tavares 7 (Parenteau, Moulson), 3:15, (pp). 3, NYI, Grabner 3 (Okposo,
Nielsen), 11:28, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 4, SJ,
Couture 3 (Burns, Vlasic), 13:19.. |
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| Overtime - 5, SJ, Burns
3 (Pavelski, Boyle), 1:07, (pp). |
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| 1st period - Staios, NYI
(cross checking), 0:10; Boyle, SJ (hooking), 2:10; Bench, SJ (too many men),
6:48. |
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| 2nd period - Demers, SJ
(hooking), 2:24; Pavelski, SJ (delay of game - puck over glass), 11:06. |
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| 3rd period - Staios, NYI
(interference), 2:57; Okposo, NYI (elbowing), 16:33. |
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| Overtime - Hamonic, NYI
(delay of game - puck over glass), 0:29. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Greiss |
37 |
35 |
| NYI - DiPietro |
30 |
27 |
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2 |
3 |
OT |
T |
| SJ |
8 |
10 |
11 |
1 |
30 |
| NYI |
10 |
17 |
10 |
0 |
37 |
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| Referees: Furlatt,
Hasenfratz. Linesmen: Murray, MacPherson. |
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