{"id":951645,"date":"2026-10-30T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951645\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:54:15","slug":"smith-nets-2-as-sharks-rally-for-3-2-win-over-vancouver-canucks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951645\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith nets 2 as Sharks rally for 3-2 win over Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Smith nets 2 as Sharks rally for 3-2 win over Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:34 pm Thursday, October 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Philip Wolf\/Parksville Qualicum News\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>Will Smith scored a pair of goals, leading the San Jose Sharks to a come-from-behind 3-2 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Thursday at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Marchment also scored for the Sharks (7-6-1), who trailed 2-0 midway through the third period. Yaroslav Askarov made 23 saves to earn the win in goal. <\/p>\n<p>Drew O\u2019Connor and Liam \u00d6hgren scored for the Canucks (3-11-1), who ended a 10-game losing skid Tuesday in Anaheim. Leevi Merilainen stopped 21 of 24 shots and took the loss for Vancouver. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor scored the lone goal of the first period, driving to the net and knocking home a rebound off a shot from centre Elias Pettersson at 13:21. O\u2019Connor now has two goals on the season and Pettersson is on a six-game point-scoring streak.<\/p>\n<p>Shots after one period favoured the Canucks, 12-6.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6hgren upped the lead to 2-0 with just 1:04 left in the second period, ripping a shot past Askarov from about 20 feet out near the right faceoff circle for his fourth of the year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"da\">SNIPESH\u00d6W FROM 92! https:\/\/t.co\/MFMFWvy1qf<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canucks\/status\/2116010513482256456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Jose outshot Vancouver 7-6 in the middle frame.  <\/p>\n<p>Smith pulled San Jose within one eight minutes into the second on the power play, moving in from the point and beating Merilainen from the top of the right circle with his fifth of the season.<\/p>\n<p>With 9:21 left in the period, Smith struck again, taking a nifty pass from Macklin Celebrini and beating Merilainen for his second of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Just 11 seconds after that, the Sharks controlled the faceoff and Marchment moved down the left side and fired a shot through Merilainen to give San Jose a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>On a late power play in the third, the Canucks pulled Merilainen to create a 6-on-4 situation but were unable to convert and the Sharks hung on for the win.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks now head home for a Halloween clash (4 p.m.) with the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: It was only the second time this season the Canucks carried a lead into the third period\u2026 Guillaume Brisebois, Brendan Gallagher and Luke Schenn were scratches for the Canucks, with Thatcher Demko (hip) still injured\u2026 Vancouver is now 73-60-9-7 all-time against San Jose\u2026 The Sharks were 1-for-5 on the power play, while the Canucks were scoreless in three attempts with the man advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith nets 2 as Sharks rally for 3-2 win over Vancouver Canucks Published 9:34 pm Thursday, October 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[903,49,48,55],"class_list":["post-951645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}