On Saturday the San Jose Sharks ended a two-game dropping skid with a 3-2 OT win towards the St. Louis Blues. The Sharks keep an ideal 3-0 document towards the Blues this season, securing victories with scores of 5-1 and 4-0.
It was an evening of firsts for the Sharks. William Eklund earned his first hat-trick, Devin Cooley acquired his first NHL win, and Collin Graf made his NHL debut. Sharks franchise historical past additionally had a primary for 2 goalies recording their first NHL win in the identical season.
Sport recap – First interval
Within the first twenty, the Sharks remained scoreless however garnered penalties, dominated faceoffs, and witnessed Calen Addison’s sport ejection.
Addison’s 4 penalties for an preliminary cross checking name racked him as much as 24 penalty infraction minutes.
St. Louis led in photographs on objective 14-5 and hits 8-2, however had been zero for 3 on the ability play.
Second interval lead
Within the second body, Sharks and Blues had been 50-50 on the faceoff wins.
At 13:47 within the interval, St. Louis’ Justin Faulk and Sharks’ alternate captain Luke Kunin obtained combating penalties. Faulk didn’t return after the second interval and collected a complete of 17 penalty minutes.
Seconds after occurring the ability play, Eklund’s slap shot broke the ice for the Sharks. Henry Thrun and alternate captain Mikael Granlund picked up assists. Granlund is on a seven-game level streak with six assists and two objectives.
25 seconds later, Sharks went on the ability play once more with an interference name on St. Louis’ Nathan Walker towards Jack Studnicka.
Following photographs on Blues’ goalie Joel Hofer, Sharks’ Fabian Zetterlund and Thomas Bordeleau assisted Eklund’s second objective of the sport. Although not a rookie by NHL requirements, this was the 21-year-old’s first multi-goal sport.
Group Teal led in photographs 14-8 however trailed the Blues general, 22-19 on the finish of the second interval.
Third interval
Simply 9 seconds into the interval, Sharks’ Klim Kostin and Blues’ Colton Parayko dropped the gloves. Kostin ranked fifth in shifts for the Sharks, logging 18:41 minutes on the ice together with 5 penalty minutes.
“We’d like extra folks doing that,” head coach David Quinn mentioned, “I’m not saying combating. I imply enjoying with an edge and being all in. To me, it may possibly’t at all times be him. It’s gotta be different folks.”
Minutes later, Studnicka was known as for hooking, placing Sharks on the penalty kill.
St. Louis’ Jordan Kyrou scored on the ability play with a wrister assisted by Pavel Buchnevich and Robert Thomas.
At 17:31, Blues’ captain Brayden Schenn tied the sport with a slap shot, assisted by Thomas and Scott Perunovich.
Sharks went into bonus hockey trailing photographs on objective 33-25.
Additional time
46 seconds into bonus hockey, Sharks went on the penalty kill when Granlund was known as for hooking towards Buchnevich.
Group Teal efficiently killed the penalty, and moments later, Kunin assisted Eklund for his first profession hat-trick objective.
“We stick collectively, even once we face adversity and I really feel like as we speak we stepped up huge time,” Eklund mentioned.
“PK was nice all evening,” Cooley mentioned after the win, “And Ekky with the hat-trick. Wow, that man’s particular. It was superior that we had been capable of get the job accomplished.”
Stats and notes
Eklund earned first star of the sport for his hat trick, adopted by goaltender Devin Cooley and Kunin.
Cooley is the primary California-born goalie to play for any of the California-based NHL groups. The 26-year-old made 34 saves with a .944 save proportion in entrance of his crowd. He’s the primary Santa Clara County-born participant to seem in an NHL sport with San Jose.
After 60 minutes and extra time, Sharks led the stats in penalty minutes 42-30, draw proportion 56-44, and blocks 8-7.
Mario Ferraro led (26:14), adopted by Granlund (25:33) and Thrun (25:01), in ice time among the many Sharks.
Defenseman Jan Rutta performed probably the most shifts, with 28. He logged 22:half-hour of ice time and contributed one hit and one takeaway with a minus-one score.
Graf in his NHL debut performed a portion of the sport on the second line alongside Kunin and Eklund.
Zetterlund not solely assisted but additionally led the Sharks in photographs on objective, registering a complete of 5 makes an attempt.
Defenseman Jacob MacDonald, who final performed within the 6-3 loss to Dallas on Mar. 26, returned to the Sharks lineup. Ryan Carpenter, Givani Smith, Kevin Labanc, and Mike Hoffman had been scratches.
The Sharks accrued six penalties within the first interval, one within the second, two within the third, and one in extra time.
St. Louis has a .1 p.c likelihood of constructing the playoffs, additional dimming their hopes after the current loss.
San Jose has 5 video games left within the season to wrap up a difficult marketing campaign, their document at 18-50-8. The Sharks face the Calgary Flames on Tuesday earlier than touring for a sport towards the Seattle Kraken on Thursday.
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