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More 3rd period
fail
Boston scores 3 unanswered 3rd period
goals
After a quick start to open the season, bad habits
are starting to cost the Sharks games. Yet another 3rd period collapse turned a
lead into a loss as San Jose fell in regulation for the second consecutive
game. San Jose gagged up a 3-2 lead by surrendering three goals to the Boston
Bruins at TD Garden in the final 20 minutes, falling 5-3.
For a team
that's supposed to be reworking its attitude, this one seemed to be much of the
same lack of urgency that plagued them in the second half of last season. For
the second game in a row, San Jose showed up for the first 40 minutes of the
game, then crawled into a hole when the game was on the line.
Even
when gifted with a 4-minute power play to end the game, the Sharks found a way
to let the other team score goals in the money period. Patrice Bergeron gift
wrapped an opportunity to tie the game with 4:29 left in regulation when he cut
Justin Braun with a high stick, but the Sharks tripped over themselves when it
mattered most.
Rather than force the issue in front of Bruins
goaltender Tuukka Rask, the Sharks played patty-cake with the puck on the power
play and burned away 4 minutes of gift wrapped game-tying power play time. Head
coach even pulled Antti Niemi to setup a 6-on-4, but the Sharks promptly
coughed up the puck and let the short-handed Bruins guarantee their win with an
empty net goal.
The Bruins power play on the other hand had little
issue putting the puck past Niemi. Brad Marchand took a pass at the right point
then headed for the net before firing a shot from the right dot that caught the
crossbar for the 1-0 Bruins lead.
Logan Couture answered with a power
play goal of his own almost 3 minutes later, deflecting a Patrick Marleau shot
past Rask for his 2nd tally of the season. Couture simply parked himself in
front of the Bruins net and created a vision issue for Rask.
The
Bruins power play struck again 6:54 into the 2nd period when Torey Krug
replicated Marchand's goal by taking a pass at the same right point, then
skating toward the net and firing a shot past Niemi. Unlike the Sharks, who
tend to fire the puck from the point, Boston figure out to drive toward the
net, cutting Niemi's reaction time on hard shots from the outside.
Couture tied the game once again 10 minutes later, taking a Marleau pass in the
slot and lifting a 10 foot shot over Rask for the equalizer. Marleau created
the opportunity by gathering a loose puck near the right dot as he floated
backwards toward the net. With two Bruin defenders collapsing on him, he
slipped the puck back out to the slot where Couture was slashing in for the
easy deposit.
Joe Thornton gave the Sharks their only lead of the
night 37 seconds later. Joe Pavelski fought off a check along the right wing
boards, then floated the puck on net. Thornton knocked down the waist high feed
with his stick blade, knocking it into the Bruins net for the 3-2 lead.
That would be it for San Jose's game.
The Sharks continued a long standing tradition of
allowing opposing rookies to score their first career NHL goals. 4:50 into the
3rd period, San Jose went into keystone cop mode, tripping over themselves
while a loose puck found rookie Seth Griffith, who snapped a shot past Niemi
for his first tally as an NHLer.
Gregory Campbell emerged from NHL
anonymity by putting the Bruins on top 4-3 after Marc-Edouard Vlasic made a
half-hearted attempt to contain a puck that was winding around his own end
boards. Daniel Paille scooped it up along the right wing boards and fired it on
net, where Campbell was there to redirect it past Niemi.
David Krejci
ended things with his short-handed tally late after San Jose's special teams
failed to deliver on their extended power play at the end of the contest.
Game Notes:
* The Sharks had three minor penalties on
the night, all of the tripping variety.
* Tye McGinn, Mirco Mueller
and Chris Tierney were all scratched freeing up ice time for game changers like
John Scott and Adam Burish.
* James Sheppard made his season debut,
centering the Sharks third line. Sheppard logged 13:29 of ice time on 19
shifts. He was credited with a shot and two hits, while winning 6 of 9
faceoffs.
* Marelau, Couture and Tomas Hertl where all a -2. Mareau
and Couture were on the ice for all three 3rd period goals scored by Boston.
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| 1st period - 1, BOS,
Marchand 1 (Lucic, Krug), 13:57, (pp). 2, SJ, Couture 2 (Marleau, Burns),
16:28, (pp). |
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| 2nd period - 3, BOS,
Krug 2 (Lucic, Krejci), 6:54, (pp). 4, SJ, Couture 3 (Marleau, Wingels), 16:15.
5, SJ, Thornton 2 (Pavelski, Braun), 16:52. |
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| 3rd period - 6, BOS,
Griffith 1 (Lucic, Krug), 4:50. 7, BOS, Campbell 1 (Paille), 10:42. 8, BOS,
Krejci 2 (Chara, Kelly), 19:35, (sh) (en). |
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| 1st period - Burns, SJ
(tripping), 13:02; Marchand, BOS (cross checking), 15:56. |
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| 2nd period - Desjardins,
SJ (tripping), 6:46; Hertl, SJ (tripping), 8:29. |
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| 3rd period - Bergeron,
BOS (high sticking - double minor), 15:51. |
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Shots |
Saves |
| SJ - Niemi |
32 |
28 |
| BOS - Rask |
34 |
31 |
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2 |
3 |
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| SJ |
9 |
15 |
10 |
34 |
| BOS |
8 |
16 |
9 |
33 |
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| Referees: Devorski,
Rooney. Linesmen: Kovachik, Nowak. |
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