Tuesday, 24 January 2017

NHL - Sharks Round Up - January 10-14, 2017


Sharks @ Edmonton Oilers 5-3 - Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Forward Mikkel Boedker had a hat trick for the San Jose Sharks in a 5-3 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place. Boedker had three goals in 39 games and was a healthy scratch for the first time this season Thursday against the Minnesota Wild. He scored in his return against the Detroit Red Wings and followed that with his fourth NHL hat trick. Brent Burns and Logan Couture scored for San Jose (25-14-2), and Martin Jones made 33 saves. Boedker had not scored in 28 games before sitting out a 5-4 loss against Minnesota. It is the second time he scored three goals against the Oilers. Boedker had his first NHL hat trick against Edmonton with the Coyotes in a 7-4 win on Oct. 15, 2014. Drake Caggiula, Matthew Benning and Oscar Klefbom scored for Edmonton (21-15-7), and Cam Talbot made 23 saves. Edmonton has lost its past two games and four of its past six (2-3-1). Boedker gave San Jose a 1-0 lead at 1:39 of the first period, collecting a rebound in front and lifting a shot over Talbot. Caggiula tied it at 15:53, but Burns scored on the power play with 17.9 seconds remaining to give the Sharks a 2-1 lead. Boedker scored at 2:24 of the second period for a 3-1 lead, capitalizing on a turnover by forward Benoit Pouliot in the Oilers zone. He completed the hat trick at 8:55. Benning scored 22 seconds into the third period to make it 4-2, taking a pass at the top of the right face-off circle and shooting past Jones. Klefbom made it 4-3 at 3:45 on a shot from the point through traffic. Couture gave San Jose a 5-3 lead at 5:06 on a breakaway.

* Boedker tipped a point shot from Marc-Edouard Vlasic past Talbot in the second period for his third goal of the game.
* Maroon had a game-high six shots on goal … Oilers forward Connor McDavid had a three-game point streak (five assists) end … Vlasic had two assists in his first game back after being struck in the face with a puck Dec. 30.
"A game like that, when you score on your first shift you're going to feel good the whole game. They came my way today, three good goals."
"After struggling and not producing you always feel pressure. But the pressure stays with you. Now you have to expect to go out and do the things I'm relied on to do." Boedker said.
"That's what we need from him. He was playing well before Christmas and we knew these types of games were coming. He's in for a big second half, and we need him."
"It [calling a timeout after the Oilers scored to make it 4-3] wasn't the difference in the game but we regrouped and settled in and the next goal was, obviously, a big one." Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said.
"It was 4-1, any team would respond the way they did. We were able to keep it 4-3 and got a big fifth goal, which kind of shifted the momentum to our side." Marc-Edouard Vlasic

Sharks @ Calgary Flames 2-3 - Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Dougie Hamilton scored with 2:19 remaining, and Chad Johnson saved a breakaway with eight seconds left to lift the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 win against the San Jose Sharks at Scotiabank Saddledome. Hamilton scored short side on Sharks goaltender Aaron Dell to break a 2-2 tie. Johnson denied Sharks forward Mikkel Boedker on a shorthanded breakaway in the final seconds. Johnson, who made 25 saves, also stopped Boedker on a penalty shot at 14:33 of the third period. Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, and Michael Frolik scored for the Flames (23-19-2), who have won six of the past nine games and are 13-6-0 in their past 19. Logan Couture and Brent Burns scored, and Dell made 25 saves for the Sharks (25-15-2), who split a two-game road trip after winning 5-3 at the Edmonton Oilers. Couture gave the Sharks a 1-0 lead at 9:40 of the first period when he redirected Burns' point shot on the power play past Johnson.
Frolik tied it 1-1 at 11:22, but Burns shot through a screen by Johnson's blocker at 16:06 to restore San Jose's lead. Burns has two goals and seven assists during a four-game point streak and is the first Sharks defenseman to have four consecutive multipoint games. Tkachuk tipped Mikael Backlund's wrist shot by Dell with 31.7 seconds remaining in the second period to tie it 2-2.
* Burns sent a slap-pass into the slot that Couture redirected by Johnson's legs to put San Jose up 1-0.
"You try to get the points every night. Tonight we didn't. You have to come back. That's all that matters to us. We don't care about the other stuff."
"You don't like to give away points. That's all that matters." Burns said.
"You would've liked a different outcome. The penalty shot is always difficult. You come down and you feel you have the right move and you just ride it out. He's a goalie that stays back and is patient. Then the last one there with [eight] seconds left, it hit him and went wide. It's something I would like to change, but it's good to have those opportunities and get those chances. It's what you want as a player. But a different outcome would've been nice." Mikkel Boedker

Blues @ Sharks 4-0 - Saturday, January 14, 2017
Backup goaltender Carter Hutton made 23 saves for his fifth NHL shutout, and the St. Louis Blues ended a two-game losing streak with a 4-0 win against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center. Colton Parayko and David Perron scored in the second period, and Jori Lehtera and Alexander Steen scored in the third for St. Louis (22-16-5), which lost to the Los Angeles Kings 5-1. Hutton started in place of Jake Allen, who was pulled from three of his past five starts. Hutton is 3-0-1 with two shutouts against the Sharks. Martin Jones made 21 saves for San Jose (25-16-2). The Blues took a 1-0 lead at 5:27 of the second period when Parayko scored on a power play with Sharks captain Joe Pavelski in the penalty box for interference. Parayko's goal came shortly after the Blues killed a 5-on-3 power play. St. Louis scored first for the second time in its past 10 games.

* Parayko beat Jones with a slap shot from above the right circle that deflected off the stick of Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic and past Jones.
Parayko did not score in his first 40 games but has two goals in his past three.
* Parayko's shot went off defenseman Brenden Dillon's skate, and Perron got to the puck and jammed it between the right post and Jones' left pad.
"I just whacked it," Perron said. "Those plays will sometimes happen in practice and you just do it to see how the puck reacts. ... You're hoping it goes up above their pad and somehow it goes in, and that's exactly what happened there."
* Sharks defenseman David Schlemko (upper body) returned to the lineup after missing five games, and defenseman Paul Martin (lower body) returned after missing one. ... Sharks forward Joonas Donskoi was scratched with an upper-body injury. ... Blues forward Dmitrij Jaskin returned to the lineup after being scratched the previous three games; he replaced Scottie Upshall. … The Sharks and Blues played here for the first time since San Jose won the Western Conference Final in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on May 25 with a 5-2 victory in Game 6. St. Louis is 2-0-0 against San Jose this season.
"It was key. It was a game where both teams were kind of playing great defensively. When you get a chance to get up like that in a game like this, it's huge." Parayko said.

"I've battled against him a few times, and sometimes guys get angry if you get in their way or give them a crosscheck. But it's an obvious call. It's a dangerous play." Blues center Paul Stastny on being speared by Sharks center Joe Thornton








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