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DeBoer's message hits
home
Hertl and Wingels emerge in 5-2 win over
Flames
The Sharks could have responded a number of ways
from their 5-2 drubbing last Wednesday night. It seems that several players
took the loss to heart by skating with a pants on fire attitude on Saturday
night, as San Jose spanked the Calgary Flames 5-2 at SAP Center. Five different
players scored for the Sharks, but the energy came from two players that were
benched in the 3rd period against the Chicago Blackhawks earlier in the week.
There was no subtlety to head coach Peter DeBoer's message to forwards
Tomas Hertl and Tommy Wingels. They never saw the ice against the Blackhawks
after 40 minutes of lackluster hockey, so both came out with a bit of fire on
Saturday night.
Both players had a goal and an assist, but it was the
fire in their game that mattered against the Flames. Calgary has struggled this
season and looked to get things on track against a Sharks team that has been
awful on home ice.
Wingels got things started by working hard and
getting himself to the right place at the right time. The Sharks forward cycled
a puck out of the right corner midway through the opening period then got his
stick blade on a waist high shot from Marc-Edouard Vlasic to redirect the puck
past Flames goaltender Jonas Hiller for the 1-0 Sharks lead.
Hertl let
his coach know that he was there to play by whipping a Brenden Dillon pass past
Hiller from the right corner at 12:36 to push the Sharks lead to a pair of
goals. Hertl squeezed his shot between Hiller and the right post from a severe
angle, threading a needle for his 3rd goal of the season.
San Jose got
into penalty trouble to open the 2nd period. Patrick Marleau took his first
penalty of the season by hooking TJ Brodie early in the period. Mirco Mueller
was sent off for charging 4 minutes later. In both cases, the Sharks penalty
kill did their job and denied both Flames power play chances. They would kill
all three penalties they faced in the game, but the first two set a tone that
allowed the Sharks to suppress any comeback and build on their lead.
Calgary took a pair of penalties of their own later in the period, and San Jose
used them as a chance to wake up their struggling power play unit. Deryk
Engelland and Dennie Wideman's infractions came 1:36 apart, which gave the
Sharks a brief 5-on-3 power play.
Joel Ward scored with both Flames in
the box on a simple shot from in close. Joe Pavelski abandoned the typical puck
movement to the point approach and waited for Ward to inch into position parked
just outside the crease off the right post. Pavelski made an 8 foot pass from
behind the end line to Ward for the short one-timer that beat Hiller for the
3-0 lead.
With Wideman still in the box, Marleau snapped a wrist shot
from between the circles that beat Hiller inside the right post. Marleau took a
Pavelski feed as he raced down the slot and used the disruption of traffic in
front of the net to slip his 9th goal of the season across the goal line.
The four goal cushion allowed the Sharks some
breathing room as they headed into the final frame. They got a little too
comfortable, allowing the Flames to get on the board midway through the period.
Markus Granlund took a lead pass at center ice and raced up the slot
before uncorking a wrist shot from the same location as Marleau's goal. The
shot sailed over Martin Jones' left shoulder for Granlund's 1st goal of the
season.
The Sharks pinned their ears back and answered immediately.
Wingels grabbed a loose puck in his own zone then raced up the right wing
boards. Tracking Vlasic racing up the left wing. Wingels sent a 30-foot pass
through the slot to Vlasic who was busy trying to fend off Jiri Hudler. Vlasic
received Wingels pass, took a single stride, then slipped the puck through
Hiller's 5-hold for his 3rd goal of the season.
The goal came 25
seconds after Granlund's goal and quickly deflated the Flames chances of any
sort of a comeback.
Micheal Ferland added his 1st goal of the season
with 1:17 left in the contest. It was the 2nd goal from the Flames 4th line.
Game Notes:
Justin Braun was moved to the injured
reserve before the game due to an infection in his left elbow. The defenseman
cut the elbow on the Sharks recent road trip, and it became infected after
treatment failed to respond.
Defenseman Dylan DeMelo was recalled from
the Barracuda to fill in the roster spot vacated by Braun.
Defenseman
Mirco Mueller dropped the gloves with Joe Colborne for a brief bout that ended
with Mueller tackling the Flames centerman. Neither skater landed a punch.
Joe Thornton added an assist to tie Al MacInnis for 34th place on the
NHL all-time points list with 1274 points.
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Wingels 2 (Vlasic, Hertl), 9:03. 2, SJ, Hertl 3 (Dillon), 12:36. |
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| 2nd period - 3, SJ, Ward
9 (Pavelski, Thornton), 10:04, (pp). 4, SJ, Marleau 9 (Pavelski, Burns), 10:54,
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| 3rd period - 5, CGY,
Grandlund 1 (Brodie, Giordano), 9:42. 6, SJ, Vlasic 3 (Wingels, Nieto), 10:07.
7, CGY, Ferland 1 (Jones), 18:43. |
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| 2nd period - Marleau, SJ
(hooking), 1:39; Mueller, SJ (charging), 4:23; Engelland, CGY (rouging), 9:16;
Wideman, CGY (high sticking), 9:51. |
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| 3rd period - Colborne,
CGY (fighting major), 9:01; Mueller, SJ (fighting major), 9:01; Dillon, SJ
(hooking), 11:40. |
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| CGY - Hiller |
29 |
24 |
| SJ - Jones |
27 |
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10 |
7 |
10 |
27 |
| SJ |
11 |
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| Referees: Lee,
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