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Oilers repay Sharks for
drubbing
Sharks 6-game win streak ends with little
fight
The Edmonton Oilers did not forget the drubbing
they took at the hands of the Sharks last week in San Jose. They got a chance
to atone for their 6-3 loss and promptly snapped the Sharks 6-game winning
streak with a 5-2 win at SAP Center on Tuesday night. Like the Sharks last
week, Edmonton scored three 1st period goals to smack San Jose in the chops.
The Sharks had no answer for the speedier Oilers, and never challenged Edmonton
after a pair of early goals sucked the wind out the building.
The
Tuesday night game meant a building that was significantly less than capacity,
even though the Sharks announced ticket sales north of 16,000. The partially
filled building didn't have much to cheer about after the gut punch the Oilers
threw at them early.
The Oilers looked nothing like the lifeless group
from a week earlier. They pushed the tempo early and grabbed an early 1-0 lead
just 2:48 into the game when Markus Granlund slipped to a spot on the right
side where Oscar Kelfbom set him up with a feed. Without any defense in sight,
Granlund gathered Kelfbom's feed and lifted the puck past Martin Jones for his
1st goal of the season.
Zack Kassian pushed the Oilers lead to 2-0
just over 5 minutes later when he swatted at a puck from just outside the right
post. Jones lost the puck which sat int he crease for Kassian to get a second
chance at it. Mario Ferraro appeared to sweep it clear, but the play was
reviewed at the next stoppage where replay clearly showed the puck crossing the
goal line.
San Jose answered at 9:23 when an Evander Kane shot hit
Kevin Labanc in the chest before bouncing past Oilers goaltender Mikko
Koskinen. Labanc was parked on the left post, when Kane whipped the puck high.
Labanc was credited with his 7th goal of the season on the play.
The
Sharks just didn't compete late in the period. San Jose allowed Jujhar Khaira
to punch home his 4th goal of the season with 15 ticks left in the frame after
Ferraro coughed up the puck in the Sharks zone. It was a back breaking goal
that San Jose could ill afford to surrender. They did, and the night got
extremely complicated.
Ferraro was whistled for hooking late in the
2nd period, setting up a 4th goal for the Oilers. James Neal capitalized with a
shot from the slot, beating Jones for the 4-1 lead.
The Sharks power
play had a pair of chances in the game, including one 4:00 into the 3rd period
after Connonr McDavid was sent off for holding the stick. Like the 5-on-5 play,
the Sharks special teams was mediocre. In a game where the opposition held the
advantage most of the night, mediocre was not good enough.
McDavid made it a 5-1 game at 6:34 when he swept home
a rebound off a Darnell Nurse shot. McDavid was simply loitering on the right
side, perfectly positioned to pounce on the deflection after Nurse pumped a
shot off Jones from the off wing.
Barclay Goodrow scored his 6th of
the season at 9:43. The Sharks forward pounced on a rebound on the left side
after Radim Simek bounced a shot off Kosinen.
The deflated San Jose
crowd got to sit through 9 minutes of drudging hockey that was about as exiting
as a root canal.
Game Notes:
* Tomas Hertl played most
of the game, but skated off and to the dressing room with 2 minutes remaining
in regulation after falling to the ice. It appeared as if he aggravated the
injury that he sustained last week.
* The lone bright spot for San
Jose was the 61% faceoff win rate. Unfortunately the Sharks couldn't do much
with the puck after they gained control of it with those faceoff wins.
* Lukas Radil skated on 8 shifts the entire game for 5:53 of ice time. Sharks
head coach Peter DeBoer leaned on his veterans who did little, in order to send
some sort of message to Radil.
* Mario Ferraro saw plenty of ice time,
and he showed his appreciation by turning over the puck on Edmonton's 3rd goal,
then taking a penalty, which led to a power play goal for Edmonton.
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The Sharks were credited with 18 shots in the 1st period, which is difficult to
comprehend given that Edmonton seemed to control the puck for the majority of
the period. Edmonton goaltender Mikko Koskinen was rarely challenged in the
game, nuch less the opening period.
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| 1st period - 1, EDM,
Granlund 1 (Klefbom, Haas), 2:48. 2, EDM, Kassian 8 (McDavid, Nurse), 7:59. 3,
SJ, Labanc 7 (Kane, Couture), 9:23. 4, EDM, Khara 4 (Russell), 19:45. |
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| 2nd period - 5, EDM,
Neal 13 (McDavid, Klefbom), 19:19, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 6, EDM,
McDavid 15 (Nurse, Draisaitl), 6:34. 7, SJ, Goodrow 6 (Simek, Burns), 9:43.
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| 1st period - Kassian,
EDM (hooking), 10:19. |
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| 2nd period - Ferraro, SJ
(hooking), 16:20; Dillon, SJ (interference), 18:59. |
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| 3rd period - McDavid,
EDM (holding the stick). 4:00. |
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Shots |
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| EDM - Koskinen |
35 |
33 |
| SJ - Jones |
29 |
24 |
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9 |
11 |
9 |
29 |
| SJ |
18 |
9 |
8 |
35 |
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| Referees: St
Laurent, Chmielewski. Linesmen: Galloway, Knorr. |
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