{"id":156089,"date":"2026-01-30T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:02:08","slug":"san-jose-sharks-william-eklund-start-fast-beat-edmonton-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156089\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks, William Eklund start fast, beat Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks<\/a> blew a three-goal lead in the third period, then allowed a goal to Zach Hyman at the 1:06 mark of overtime in a stinging 4-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> on Thursday at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n

With the Sharks leading 3-0, Leon Draisaitl scored at the 1:34 mark of the third period, then assisted on late goals by Connor McDavid<\/a> and Evan Bouchard, with Bouchard\u2019s goal on a blast from inside the blue line coming with 59 seconds left in regulation time.<\/p>\n

In overtime, Timothy Liljegren turned the puck over to the Oilers. Later, Hyman shoved Liljegren into the crease, took a pass from Connor McDavid in the Sharks\u2019 zone and one-timed a shot past goalie Yaroslav Askarov<\/a> for his 22nd goal of the season.<\/p>\n

The Oilers have now beaten the Sharks in 15 of their last 16 meetings, dating back to the start of the 2021-22 season. Thursday\u2019s loss also marked the first time in 21 games this season that the Sharks have lost a game when leading after two periods. They had been 19-0-1.<\/p>\n

All three Sharks goals came in the first period, setting a team record in the process.<\/p>\n

Collin Graf and Adam Gaudette scored first period goals just 1:09 apart, and Michael Misa added his second career NHL goal at the 11:40 mark for a 3-0 Sharks lead.<\/p>\n

It marked the first time in team history that the Sharks have scored three first period goals in three straight games, after doing the same against the New York Rangers last week and the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Goalie Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves, including 12 in the first period.<\/p>\n

The Oilers, since the start of the 2021-22 season, are now 15-1-0 against San Jose, outscoring the Sharks 74-29 along the way.<\/p>\n

The Sharks\u2019 road trip continues with games against the Calgary Flames on Saturday, the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday and the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Spectators were expecting a duel between two of the NHL\u2019s leading scorers in Macklin Celebrini and McDavid, who will be teammates for Canada at next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, I hope he doesn\u2019t do anything, and in a week, I hope he does a lot,\u201d Celebrini said before Thursday\u2019s game. \u201cit\u2019ll be fun to obviously play with him, but we still have four games left that we need to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrini assisted on Graf\u2019s goal 26 seconds into the first period \u2013 which began with Graf knocking the puck off of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins\u2019 stick at the Oilers\u2019 blue line \u2014 to extend his point streak to three games.<\/p>\n

For most of Thursday\u2019s game, the Sharks did an admiral job slowing down McDavid, the NHL\u2019s leading scorer whose goal with 3:05 left in regulation time cut the Sharks lead to 3-2.<\/p>\n

Celebrini now has 79 points this season, including seven in the last three games. McDavid has 94.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, they have a great team over there and some special players. I think we\u2019re all excited for the challenge today,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cJust the way (McDavid) plays the game, it\u2019s special. The way skates. Every time he\u2019s on the ice, he makes special things happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to hear from me; you just need to watch him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks blew a three-goal lead in the third period, then allowed a goal to Zach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":["post-156089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156089","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=156089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}