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Isles snap Sharks win
streak
Alex Stalock allows 5 goals in subpar
performance
They weren't going to win them all, but the stars
simply seemed to be as misaligned as they could be for the Sharks on Saturday
night as they made their first visit to the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.
Playing less than 24 hours after their shootout win in New Jersey, the Sharks
tired legs ran out of gas to a younger New York Islanders team that put up a
season high 6 goals against the Sharks. San Jose failed to hold a pair of
leads, but much like last season, the 3rd period was a house of horrors.
San Jose also skated for the first time without Martin Jones parked
between the pipes. Stalock filled in for Jones, who got the night off after his
hot start in the Sharks first 4 games. Stalock didn't exactly turn in a Vezina
caliber performance, surrendering 5 goals in the 6-3 loss.
The Sharks
grabbed a 1-0 lead at 13:04 of the opening period when Justin Braun fired a
shot on net that clipped Joe Pavelski as he slid to the top of the crease. It
was unclear if Pavelski got his stick on the shot or if it hit his body, but
the net effect was still the same. Goal for San Jose.
Islanders head
coach Jack Capuano immediately challenged the play, citing possible goaltender
interference on Pavelski. An officials review deemed it a good goal, which
meant the Islanders forfeited their timeout. It was the 3rd challenge the
Sharks have won this season.
Mikhail Grabovski was awarded a penalty
shot with 2:13 left in the period after he zipped past Brendan Dillon, forcing
the Sharks defenseman to hook him. Alex Stalock helped the Sharks maintain
their lead by making a sweet save by sliding to this right and extending his
leg pad out to deny Grabovski.
The 2nd period opened with a flurry of
scoring that favored the Islanders. First Johnny Boychuk stepped into a shot
from the right wing boards that knuckled past Stalock for the 1-1 tie.
The Sharks answered 20 seconds later when Joe Thornton sent a thread-the-needle
pass through the slot to Nikolay Goldobin on the left wing. The rookie
one-timed the pass past Halak for his 1st NHL goal.
Brent Burns took a
questionable tripping penalty 40 seconds later, setting up the second power
play of the night for New York. That power play would end in a bizzar goal for
the Islanders. Ryan Strome sent a shot on goal that hit Stalock in the mask,
deflecting to the end boards. Stalock immediately started grabbing at his mask,
pulling it off as Anders Lee threw the puck on net, bouncing it off the back of
Stalock's pad for his 2nd goal of the season.
The goal was reviewed,
but replays clearly showed Stalock removing his own mask. The netminder may
have felt a loose strap and knew the only way to get a stoppage was to lose his
mask. Referee Trevor Hanson felt otherwise and the goal stood.
San Jose settled down and manufactured a 2-on-1 break
that ended with Matt Nieto racing past defenseman Nick Leddy before sliding a
pass to the front of the net where Joel Ward buried it for his 1st goal as a
Shark.
New York answered right back, capitalizing on a Sharks turnover
behind the net. Josh Bailey grabbed a loose puck near the left corner, then
dished it out to Kyle Okposo at the high slot. Okposo fired a shot toward the
left post, where Bailey tipped it passed Stalock. Thornton had a chance to
limit the damage after getting crossed up with Burns, but he failed to tie up
Bailey.
Okposo gave the Islanders their first lead of the night 4:18
into the 3rd period on a nice second effort from behind the Sharks net. Stalock
denied Okposo on a chance from the left side, but the puck kicked out to the
left corner. Dillon had Okposo covered, but he simply failed to stop the
Islanders forward from skating out of the corner to the goal mouth, where a
follow up shot lifted over Stalock for New York's 4th goal of the evening.
Brock Nelson made it a 2-goal lead 7 minutes later by snapping a shot
past Stalock from the slot after Grabovski slid a feed from the right side.
Justin Braun failed to tie up Nelson, who also used the Sharks defenseman to
screen his shot. Stalock could only watch the shot sail past his left shoulder.
Frans Nielsen added an empty net goal to ice the game and send the
Sharks to their first defeat of the season.
Game Notes:
Defenseman Paul Martin was a late scratch, which allowed rookie Dylan
DeMelo to make his NHL debut. The Sharks did not hold a morning skate, so there
was no indication that he would miss the game.
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3 |
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Pavelski 2 (Braun, Thornton), 13:04. NYI, Grabovski (unsuccessful penalty
shot), 17:47. |
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| 2nd period - 2, NYI,
Boychuk 1 (Strome, Tavares), 0:21. 3, SJ, Goldobin 1 (Thornton, Braun), 0:41.
4, NYI, Lee 2 (Strome, Tavares), 2:27, (pp). 5, SJ, Ward 1 (Nieto, Stalock),
9:20. 6, NYI, Bailey 2 (Okposo, Nielsen), 13:58. |
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| 3rd period - 7, NYI,
Okposo 2 (Bailey), 4:18. 8, NYI, Nelson 2 (Grabovski, Kulemin), 11:10. 9, NYI,
Nielsen 1 (Okposo), 17:02, (en). |
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| 1st period - Hertl, SJ
(hooking), 3:16; Bench, NYI (too many men), 4:10. |
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| 2nd period - Burns, SJ
(tripping), 1:20; Hamonic, NYI (tripping), 2:50. |
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| 3rd period - Braun, SJ
(delay of game - puck over glass), 12:49. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Stalock |
33 |
28 |
| SJ - empty net |
1 |
0 |
| NYI - Halak |
25 |
22 |
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10 |
8 |
7 |
25 |
| NYI |
10 |
12 |
12 |
34 |
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| Referees: St
Laurent, Hanson. Linesmen: Cherrey, Alphonso. |
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