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6 Sharks score to pace B.C.
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10/13/06 - by Mike Lee
24 hours after their meltdown in Edmonton, the Sharks regrouped
to finish their three-game road trip on a winning note in Vancouver on Friday
night. The Sharks buckled down in the 3rd period against the Canucks after
establishing a two-goal lead to reclaim the Pacific Division lead with a 6-4
win at GM Place.
Ten different players scored goals, including six who recorded their first
tally¢s of the season. Vesa Toskala out dueled Robert o Luongo to earn
his third win of the season, although Toskala faced 11 fewer shots than Luongo.
Sharks captain Patrick Marleau got the Sharks on the board with his first goal
of the season just 1:48 into the game. Marleau slipped behind Canucks rookie
Luc Bourdon and tapped in a pass from Milan Michalek who sent a backdoor pass
past Luongo.
Markus Naslund matched Marleau with a goal of his own less than three minutes
later to tie the game at 1-1. The goal was Naslund's 300th tally as a Canuck,
which tied him with Trevor Linden for the Canucks franchise record.
Christian Ehrhoff scored a goal late in the period to reward the Sharks for a
solid effort to open the game. Ehrhoff chipped a rebound past Luongo after
Marleau bounced a shot off the Canucks goaltender with a shot from the bottom
of the left circle.
Vancouver tied the game midway through the 2nd period on Kevin Bieksa's first
NHL goal. Jan Bulis setup Bieksa with a centering pass from behind the Sharks
net, that the Canucks defenseman one timed past Toskala.
San Jose jumped back out in front at 12:14 of the period when Patrick
Rissmiller followed up a Ryan Clowe shot on a 3-on-2 rush. Rissmiller started
the break by chipping the puck up to Clowe on the right wing, then trailed the
play as Clowe tried jamming the puck past Luongo from in tight.
Ville Nieminen would follow up Rissmiller¢s goal with his first tally of
the season two minutes later. Curtis Joseph and Mike Grier clogged things up
in front of Luongo as Scott Hannan put a shot on net from the left point. The
puck hit Luongo in the chest then bounced behind him in the crease. Nieminen
was lurking outside the right post and easily swept the loose puck into the
wide open net.
Daniel Sedin cut the Sharks lead to 4-3 with a pretty goal at 18:15. Bieksa
sent a pass up the ice from his own zone to Henrik Sedin at the Sharks
blueline, who feathered a pass to his brother who was breaking in around the
right wing. Sedin cut across the slot from right to left as he lifted a shot
over Toskala's left shoulder.
The Canucks had a golden opportunity to knot the game up at the end of the
period after Curtis Brown was whistled for tripping and Rissmiller was called
for kneeing 19 seconds later. Both penalties carried into the 3rd period, but
the Sharks turned the tables on Vancouver.
Henrik Sedin tried to bounce the puck off Toskala from behind the net, but his
shot kicked off Toskala's paddle and out to center ice, just as Brown was
coming out of the box. The Sharks centerman grabbed the loose puck and raced
up the ice before lifting a backhand over Luongo's left shoulder.
"It snuck away from us in Edmonton and we certainly didn't want that to
happen," Brown said. "The biggest thing was we wanted to kill the penalty off.
You never dream of something like that happening, especially down two men."
"Did I get an assist?" Toskala asked after the game. "I was just trying to keep
my stick in the passing lane. I didn't obviously try to make a breakaway pass
but I got a good bounce."
Vancouver got back to within a lone goal on Mathias Ohlund's first of the year
at the 9:49 mark, but that's close as they would come. Ohlund fired what
appeared to be a simple shot from the right wing boards, but Toskala never
appeared to see the puck.
With the Edmonton loss still fresh in the memory bank, the Sharks were in no
mood for a repeat implosion. Mike Grier would put the Sharks up by two goals
again two minutes after Ohlund's score with a fast break score. With the
Canucks trying to build on the momentum that Ohlund provided, they were
pressing in the Sharks zone, when Matt Carle scooped up a loose puck and
flipped it up ice to Grier on the left wig boards. The new Sharks forward beat
Luongo with a backhand shot as he raced in on net uncontested.
"Not great at all," Luongo said after getting peppered with 37 shots.
"Obviously I'm disappointed in my performance and disappointed for the fans.
First home game and I didn't play very well. In the third I obviously didn't
make the big save."
Notes:
The six goal performance gave the Sharks 21 goals in the first five games this
season, which is a new franchise record. The previous record was 20 goals
through the first five games, set three times, most recently last season.
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| 1st period - 1, SJ, Marleau 1 (Michalek),
1:48. 2, VAN, Naslund 3 (H. Sedin, D. Sedin), 4:14. 3, SJ, Ehrhoff 3
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4, VAN, Bieksa 1 (Bulis, Morrison), 7:52, (pp). 5, SJ, Rissmiller 1
(Clowe, McLaren), 12:14. 6, SJ, Nieminen 1 (Brown, Hannan), 14:14. 7, VAN, D.
Sedin 4 (H. Sedin, Bieksa), 18:15. |
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| 3rd period - 8, Brown 2 (Toskala), 1:23,
(sh). 9, VAN, Ohlund 1 (Bieksa, H. Sedin), 9:49. 10, SJ, Grier 1 (Carle),
11:45. |
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| 1st period - Hannan, SJ (interference),
4:49; Kessler, VAN (interference), 12:55. |
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| 2nd period - Hannan, SJ (cross checking),
0:16; Bulis, VAN (hooking), 1:58; Clowe, SJ (interference), 6:16; Clowe, SJ
(roughing), 6:16; Cooke, VAN (roughing), 6:16; Green, VAN (interference), 8:13;
Michalek, SJ (unsportsmanlike conduct), 17:12; Fitzpatrick, VAN (roughing),
17:12; BRown, SJ (tripping), 19:13; Rissmillier, SJ (kneeing), 19:32. |
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| 3rd period - Morrison, VAN (holding), 4:22;
H. Sedin, VAN (holding), 12:08; Bieksa, VAN (closing hand on puck), 12:41;
Clowe, SJ (tripping), 15:57. |
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| SJ - Toskala |
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22 |
| VAN - Luongo |
37 |
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12 |
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| Referees: Rob Shick, Kelly Sutherland. Linesmen:
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