{"id":135684,"date":"2026-01-16T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:50:09","slug":"san-jose-sharks-three-goal-second-period-keys-victory-over-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135684\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks\u2019 three-goal second period keys victory over Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Collin Graf<\/a> and Pavol Regenda<\/a> each had a goal and an assist and the San Jose Sharks<\/a> used a three-goal second period to top the Washington Capitals<\/a> 3-2 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> also scored, tying the game with the first of the Sharks\u2019 three goals in a span of 2:46. Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> made 21 saves for San Jose, which has won four of five.<\/p>\n

Dylan Strome<\/a> and Ryan Leonard<\/a> scored for the Capitals, Alex Ovechkin<\/a> had an assist and Logan Thompson<\/a> made 23 saves.<\/p>\n

Strome put the Capitals up 1-0 at 10:58 of the second period, but the Sharks took over from there.<\/p>\n

Ostapchuk tied it at 1 at 13:27 and Graf gave the Sharks the lead at 14:53 when he tipped in a pass from Regenda. San Jose went up 3-1 on Regenda\u2019s goal at 16:13.<\/p>\n

Leonard made it a one-goal game at 9:11 of the third when beat Nedeljkovic.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Sharks: Play at Detroit on Friday night. <\/p>\n

Capitals: Host Florida on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Collin Graf and Pavol Regenda each had a goal and an assist and the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-135684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}