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Perfect road trip after 3rd
period comeback Sharks score 4 goals in the 3rd
period to stun Columbus
The Sharks had plenty of reasons to pack it in
after the Columbus Blue Jackets grabbed a 3-1 lead early in the 3rd period on
Sunday. They were wrapping up a season long 6-game road trip in which they
claimed 10 of 12 possible points. They were playing less than 24 hours after a
tough win in Pittsburgh. It would have been too easy to simply call it a
successful trip and head for home. Instead, they dug deep and pulled off one
heck of a comeback, scoring 4 goals in the 4th period to stun the Blue Jackets
5-3.
Forget the fact that the Sharks had never won six consecutive
games on the road in their 25 year history. They decided if they were going to
be forced to play another 18 minutes of hockey, they may as well make the most
of it.
And that they did.
San Jose lit up Sergei Bobrovsky
with a goal outburst, avenging a 5-2 loss to the Blue Jackets three weeks ago
in San Jose.
After Cam Atkinson scored the Blue Jackets 3rd goal of
the night, 1:23 into the 3rd period to make it a 3-1 game, San Jose went to
work.
Joe Pavelski scored his team high 11th goal at 6:13 by tipping a
Justin Braun shot past Bobrovsky. Pavelski was parked in the just inside the
right circle and had to wave his stick at the waist high shot that then took a
downward trajectory and skipped off the ice before slipping through Bobrovsky's
5-hole.
Dalton Prout took a hooking penalty by impeding Tommy Wingels
at 11:18 of the period. The Sharks would convert the power play chance when
Brent Burns scored on a goal that mirrored his tally in Pittsburgh on Saturday
night. Joel Ward setup the goal by skating through the right circle, drawing
all attention in that direction before sending a no-look pass to Burns on the
off wing. The Sharks defenseman one-timed the shot into a wide-open net to tie
the game.
Brendan Dillon gave the Sharks the lead less than 2 minutes
later when he fired a shot from the left point through traffic that evaded
Bobrovsky. Dillon was in a position to get the shot off after Chris Tierney won
the faceoff, which was the Sharks 7th faceoff grab in 10 chances on the power
play.
Pavelski put the game away with 1:16 to play after the Blue
Jackets pulled Bobrovsky. Columbus tried to setup an extra-skater situation by
pulling Bobrovsky, but Boone Jenner made the mistake of trying to skate the
puck past Pavelski in front of his own net. Pavelski picked Jenner's and swept
the puck home for the 2-goal lead.
San Jose grabbed the game's initial
lead late in the 1st period when Patrick Marleau poked home a deflection from
the doorstep. Joonas Donskoi tried lifting a shot past Bobrovsky from the left
side, but the Blue Jackets goaltender knocked the shot down. The puck sat on
the left edge of the crease until Marleau spotted it and put it through a gap
between the left post and Bobrovsky's right arm.
Ryan Johansen tied the game at 1-1 with a backhand
shot from the top of the crease at 5:30 of the 2nd period. The Blue Jackets put
a series of shots on goaltender Alex Stalock but the Sharks defense couldn't
clear the puck. A Kerby Rychel chance landed at the top of the crease where
Johansen sat perched with hi back to the net.
Stalock got the call in
net, spelling Martin Jones who was given a night off after after starting the
previous 7 games. Stalock finished the evening with 28 saves, and earning his
2nd win of the season.
Jenner made it 2-1 Columbus 78 seconds later on
a tic-tac-toe sequence off the rush. Johansen set a pass through the slot to
Jenner on the right wing for a slam dunk goal into a wide open net.
Atkinson gave the Blue Jackets their 3-1 lead on a put back after Nick Foligno
bounced a shot off Stalock from the left side. Donskoi was busy tying up Scott
Hartnell at the top of the crease, and couldn't get out to cover Atkinson, who
crept over to the right post for the easy deposit.
Game
Notes:
Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer returned to the helm after
missing Saturday night's game while he attended to a personal matter.
Matt Nieto was scratched for what's being called a non-injury related reason.
DeBoer did not disclose why the forward was scratched in his post game
comments.
The win was the Sharks 10th on the road this season, which
is tops in the NHL.
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3 |
T |
SJ |
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0 |
4 |
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CBJ |
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1st period - 1, SJ,
Marleau 7 (Donskoi, Ward), 16:27. |
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2nd period - 2, CBJ,
Johansen 4 (Rychel, Anderson), 5:30. 3. CBJ, Jenner 11 (Karlsson, Saad),
6:48. |
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3rd period - 4, CBJ,
Atkinson 5 (Foligno, Hartnell), 1:23. 5, SJ, Pavelski 11 (Braun, Vlasic), 6:13.
6, SJ, Burns 8 (Ward, Marleau), 11:25, (pp). 7, SJ, Dillon 1 (Tierney), 13:15.
8, SJ, Pavelski 12 (unassisted), 18:44, (en). |
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1st period - Rychel, CBJ
(tripping), 6:11; Haley, SJ (fighting major), 9:30; Brown, SJ (fighting major),
9:50; Prout, CBJ (fighting major), 9:50; Campbell, CBJ (fighting major), 9:50;
Wingels, SJ (interference), 10:03. |
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2nd period - Bourque,
CBJ (high sticking), 8:57; Burns, SJ (interference), 9:54; Bruan, SJ (holding),
10:29; Prout, CBJ (cross checking), 14:31. |
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3rd period - Prout, CBJ
(hooking), 11:18; Hartnell, CBJ (unsportsmanlike conduct), 18:44; Hartnell, CBJ
(10 min misconduct), 18:44. |
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Shots |
Saves |
SJ - Stalock |
31 |
28 |
CBJ - Bobrovsky |
28 |
24 |
CBJ - empty net |
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0 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
T |
SJ |
10 |
7 |
12 |
29 |
CBJ |
5 |
19 |
7 |
31 |
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Referees: L'Ecuyer,
Pochmara. Linesmen: Brisebois, Miller. |
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