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Pavelski leads
retribution
SJ beats Edmonton 5-2
Doing what they should have done 48 hours earlier,
the Sharks knocked off the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 at SAP Center. After stumbling
to the Oilers in Alberta on Sunday night, the Sharks got their act in gear and
whipped up a bushel of goals to bum rush the cellar dwellers from the Great
White North. Joe Pavelski scored a pair of goals in the pummeling.
The
win was tempered with the fact that several Shark players were injured during
the contest, including defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic. The Sharks defensive
struggles don't need another reason to allow opposing teams to target them, but
losing Vlasic exposes a team in need of some defensive stability right now.
Mike Brown also left the game after sustaining an injury during the
contest. Rookie defenseman Melker Karlsson left the game in the 2nd period, but
would return in the final period after receiving treatment from the Sharks
training staff.
Pavelski helped the Sharks work past those injuries by
scoring the sharks 1st and 4th goals of the game. His first tally came 4:33
into the game, courtesy of a Joe Thornton feed from the right wings boards.
Pavleksi received Thornton's pass with his back to the net, before pivoting to
his left and lifting the puck over Oilers goaltender Ben Scrivens' right
shoulder. The shot was accented by the fact that Oilers defenseman Jeff Petry
was blanketed all over Pavelski.
A pair of Sharks rookies teamed up to
put the Sharks ahead 2-0 less than a minute later. Barclay Goodrow scored his
1st NHL goal by cashing in on a deflection after fellow rookie Melker Karlsson
bounced a shot off Scrivens. The most promising part of the sequence was the
fact that both youngsters were hovering around the front of the net, where it
usually requires a toll when loitering in that region.
The Oilers made
a game of it by countering with a pair of goals themselves. Jordan Eberle
lifted a shot past Alex Stalock at 12:08 after taking a Leon Draisaitl pass
from the left corner, then waiting out Stalock as he cut across the slot.
David Perron tied the game with 3:45 left in the period after Teddy
Purcell intercepted a Brenden Dillon clearing pass in the Sharks zone. Purcell
swatted Dillon's waist high pass out of the year, then sent a backhand pass to
Perron after Dillon and Brent Burns tried to collapse on him. Perron one-timed
the feed past Stalock from the left side.
Logan Couture scored what would turn out to be the
game winning goal 6:14 into the 2nd period when he deflected a Scott Hannan
blast from the left point. Couture used some incredible hand-eye coordination
to get his stick blade on the waist-high shot.
Pavelski pushed the
Sharks lead to a pair of goals when he finished a tic-tac-toe passing sequence
with Thornton and Patrick Marleau during the Sharks lone power play. Steven
Pinizzotto was sent off for holding John Scott's stick moments earlier.
Burns added his 8th goal of the year on a blast from the blueline
14:31 into the 3rd period to cap the evening's scoring.
The Sharks
finished the evening with 42 hits, an unusually high number for the Sharks. The
hit parade was led by Brown who unloaded on 7 Oilers. Andrew Desjardins
followed that up with 6 hits of his own.
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| 1st period - 1, SJ,
Pavelski 13 (Thornton, Braun), 4:33. 2, SJ, Goodrow 1 (Karlsson, Sheppard),
5:29. 3, EDM, Eberle 6 (Draisaitl), 12:08. 4, EDM, Perron 5 (Purcell),
16:15. |
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| 2nd period - 5, SJ,
Couture 12 (Hannan, Wingels), 6:14. 6, SJ, Pavelski 14 (Marleau, Thornton),
7:35, (pp). |
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| 3rd period - 7, SJ,
Burns 8 (Couture), 14:31. |
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| 1st period - Burns, SJ
(tripping), 7:33; Pinizzotto, EDM (fighting major), 16:01; Desjardins, SJ
(fighting major), 16:01. |
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| 2nd period - Pinizzotto,
EDM (holding the stick), 7:28; Karlsson, SJ (holding), 12:10. |
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Shots |
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| EDM - Scrivens |
24 |
19 |
| SJ - Stalock |
27 |
25 |
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8 |
11 |
8 |
27 |
| SJ |
8 |
8 |
8 |
24 |
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| Referees: Charron,
Pochmara. Linesmen: Galloway, Heyer. |
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