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Kane canes
Canes
Sharks forward records 1st period hat
trick
As the Sharks slowly try to right their ship, they
took a big step forward on Wednesday night, when they knocked off the Carolina
Hurricanes, powered by Evender Kane's 1st period hat trick. The Sharks were
actually outplayed in that 1st period, but Kane helped them overcome some early
season holes with his three goals. Two of those goals came on the power play,
which is also starting to show signs of life. The two teams would play two more
periods, but this one was decided in the opening 20 minutes as San Jose won
their 3rd straight game by a 5-2 score.
The Hurricanes entered play
with the league's best record at 6-1-0, boasting one of the league's best
offenses. The Sharks got a break by the schedule makers, who had Carolina play
in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, while San Jose had two full days of rest, last
playing on Saturday night.
It was the Sharks however who looked like
they played the night before in the opening frame at SAP Center. Carolina
out-shot the Sharks 16-7 in the period and controlled the tempo for most of the
first 10 minutes of the game.
The Sharks withstood that initial push
by the Hurricanes, thanks in part to Martin Jones play between the pipes. The
Sharks goaltender made a slew of big saves on shots of varying ranges.
Kane turned the tables on Carolina at 8:36 of the period when Erik Karlsson
fired a shot from the right point. Hurricanes defender Brett Pesce blocked the
shot, but the puck dropped at his feet. The defenseman lost sight of the puck,
allowing Kane to swoop in and whip a shot from 25 feet out that sailed over
goaltender James Reimer's glove for his 2nd goal of the season.
The
Sharks thought they had a second goal after Dylan Gambrell deflected a shot
past Reimer and he cit across the slot, but a review determined that the
centerman's stick was above the cross bar.
Carolina answered just over
2 minutes later when Dougie Hamilton buried a 20-foot shot after the Hurricanes
moved the puck at will around the perimeter of the Sharks zone. Hamilton took a
Teuvo Teravainen feed at the top of the right circle before walking in
uncontested and ripping a shot to the top right corner of the Sharks net.
A Nino Neiderreiter tripping penalty setup the first of four Sharks
power plays on the night at 16:26. Kane thought he had his 3rd goal of the year
when his shot from the slot appeared to carry Reimer's glove across the goal
line, but it was waved off by referee Jake Brenk.
Kane left no doubt
on the ensuing faceoff after he punched home another deflection off a
Hurricanes defender. Brent Burns ripped a shot from the point, catching Joel
Edmundson in the shin pad, but the puck kicked over to the right where Kane was
in the perfect spot to sweep home the rebound to give the Sharks the lead once
again.
Andrei Svechnikov took a second tripping penalty with
23 seconds left in the period, but it was plenty of time for San Jose. Kane
completed his hat trick by deflecting a Burns shot while parked outside the
left post. The goal marked the first time a Sharks player recorded a hat trick
in the 1st period.
Carolina didn't match their 16 shot output in the
2nd period, but they still offered 12 shots at Jones, who denied every one of
them.
Barclay Goodrow pushed the Sharks lead to 4-1 at 14:37 when he
intercepted a Hurricanes turnover in the neutral zone before racing up the left
wing and snapping a shot past Reimer for his 3rd goal of the season. Goodrow's
squeezed the puck under Reimer's left arm after unloading his shot from the
left dot.
Carolina's best chance to claw back into the game came later
in the period when Goodrow followed Patrick Marleau to the penalty box, skating
with 45 seconds of 5-on-3 time. San Jose killed both penalties to enjoy a three
goal lead entering the 2nd intermission.
San Jose was content to
protect their lead and kill clock in the 3rd period. A fourth tripping penalty
by the Hurricanes made that an easier proposition, and the fatigue started to
show itself in the Hurricanes skating.
Former Vegas Golden Knight
forward Erik Haula scored his team leading 6th goal of the season with 4:19
left in regulation. Brock McGinn fired a shot from the left side that hit Haula
in the thigh, redirecting it past Jones. Haula was parked outside the left post
and simply ran into McGinn's shot.
Haula's goal allowed the Hurricanes
to pull Reimer late in an attempt to cut into the Sharks 2-goal lead, but Tomas
Hertl walked in a lead pass from Kane with 52.1 ticks left to ice the game.
Game Notes:
* The announced attendance was 15,143, but
the building likely had fewer than 11 thousand butts in seats.
* The
4-point night for Evander Kane was the 2nd of his career. He also became the
4th Shark to score two power play goals in the 1st period.
* Martin
Jones finished the game with 36 saves, which gives consecutive games with 30 or
more saves.
* The Sharks continue to win in faceoff percentage, which
has translated into game wins. Logan Couture led San Jose by winning 14 of 18
draws on Wednesday night (78%).
* Tomas Hertl finished the evening
with a goal and 2 assists. He added a pair of shots, and 1 hit. Hertl was also
9-of-18 in faceoffs.
* Marcus Sorenson made his return to the Sharks
lineup after missing the last threee games with an upper body injury.
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| 1st period - 1, SJ, Kane
2 (Kertl, E. Karlsson), 8:36. 2, CAR, Hamilton 5 (Teravainen, Aho), 10:46. 3,
SJ, Kane 3 (Burns, Labanc), 17:19, (pp). 4, SJ, Kane 4 (Burns, Hertl), 19:43,
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| 2nd period - 5, SJ,
Goodrow 3 (unassisted), 14:37. |
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| 3rd period - 6, CAR,
Haula 6 (McGinn, Dzingel), 15:41. 7, SJ, Hertl 2 (Kane, Couture), 19:07, (en).
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| 1st period -
Niederreiter, CAR (tripping), 16:26; Svechnikov, CAR (tripping), 19:37. |
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| 2nd period - Slavin, CAR
(tripping), 7:08; Thornton, SJ (holding the stick), 9:08; Marleau, SJ
(hooking), 15:17; Goodrow, SJ (hooking), 16:32. |
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| 3rd period -
Niderraiter, CAR (tripping), 6:28; Labanc, SJ (holding), 12:12. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| CAR - Reimer |
21 |
17 |
| CAR - empty net |
1 |
0 |
| SJ - Jones |
38 |
37 |
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16 |
12 |
10 |
38 |
| SJ |
7 |
11 |
4 |
22 |
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| Referees: Brenk,
Meier. Linesmen: Mills, Murchison. |
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