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Big L in Big D
SJ continues to struggle
2/18/07 - by
Mike Lee
It took the Sharks 190 minutes to finally score a
goal, but Sunday’s 3rd period tally by Mark Bell was
too little too late. San Jose fell for the third
straight game, losing to the Dallas Stars 5-2 on
Sunday afternoon. Bell’s goal came after the Stars
had already put 3 past Sharks goaltender Evgeni
Nabokov in another abysmal performance by the Sharks.
The Stars moved to within in a single point of San
Jose in the standings with the victory. Starting the
second half of their season long 8-game road trip, San
Jose looked lifeless on the ice, allowing the Stars to
dictate much of the play.
Nabokov kept the Sharks close for the first 35 minutes
of the game, allowing only a single Stu Barnes goal.
That would change after Dallas wore down the Sharks
with a constant stream of forechecking pressure.
Riberio would score the 1st of his two goals on the
day with just under 5 minutes remaining in the 2nd
period on a botched defensive play in the Sharks zone.
After Jaroslav put a shot on Nabokov, the puck
trickled over to the Stars forward on the right side
of the crease. Ribeiro and Jere Lehtinen had both
slipped over to the unprotected side of the net, while
three Sharks defenders watched from the opposite side
of the slot.
Sydor would finish the game with three assists.
Lehtinen would convert on a tick-tack-toe passing
sequence that ended with the puck in the back of
SanJose’s net with 16 seconds remaining in the period
to break the Sharks back.
Bell would end the Sharks goalless drought by
deflecting a shot off the stick of Marc-Edouard Vlasic
two minutes into the 3rd period. The goal ended the
longest span the Sharks have gone without a goal in
team history, surpassing the old mark set in 1999 by
almost 25 minutes.
Any celebration was promptly ended when Ribeiro scored
a power play goal 67 seconds later to push the Stars
lead back up to 3 goals.
Joe Thornton would setup Mike Grier with a meaningless
goal with just under 7 minutes to play. Grier cut to
the net as Thornton slipped a pass from behind the
Stars net, setting up a one-timer that beat Turco.
Sharks head coach Ron Wilson would pull Nabokov with
three minutes to play after Loui Eriksson was sent off
for tripping. Skating with a two-man advantage, the
Sharks couldn’t even figure out how to get the puck
into the Stars zone. Lehtinen added insult to injury
by poke checking the puck from his own blueline down
the length of the ice for a goal.
Notes:
Curtis Brown rejoined the team in Dallas, but he
didn’t arrive in time to play. Brown returned to the
Bay Area after his wife gave birth to a son earlier
this week. The Sharks called up Tomas Plihal as an
emergency fill in. Patrick Marleau returned to the
ice after missing Friday’s loss to the Blue Jackets
with an upper body injury, but he was a non-factor in
the game.
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| SJ |
0 |
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| DAL |
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2 |
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5 |
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| 1st period - 1, DAL, Barnes 11 (ZUbov,
Sydor), 6:41. |
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| 2nd period - 2, DAL, Ribeiro 9 (Modry),
15:05. 3, DAL, Lehtinen 18 (Modano, Sydor), 19:44. |
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| 3rd period - 4, SJ, Bell 8 (Vlasic,
Michalek), 1:52, (pp). 5, DAL, Ribeiro 10 (Zubov, Sydor), 2:59, (pp). 6,
SJ,
Grier 13 (Thornton, Rissmiller), 13:15. 7, DAL, Lehtinen 19 (unassisted),
18:25, (sh, en). |
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| 1st period - McLaren, SJ (fighting major),
14:35; Barch, DAL (fighting major), 14:35; Ehrhoff, SJ (slashing),
19:56. |
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| 2nd period - Modry, DAL (cross checking),
19:58. |
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| 3rd period - Cheechoo, SJ (tripping), 2:29;
Robidas, DAL (interference), 7:59; Michalek, SJ (hooking), 10:39; Eriksson,
DAL
(tripping), 16:43; Murray, SJ (roughing), 18:46; Hagman, DAL (roughing),
18:46. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Nabokov |
20 |
16 |
| SJ - empty net | 1 | 0 | | DAL
- Turco | 19 | 17 |
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| SJ |
5 |
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10 |
19 |
| DAL |
4 |
10 |
7 |
21 |
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| Referees: Marc Joannette, Rob Shick.
Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Jonny Murray. |
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