Kiefer Sherwood scored the eventual game-winner and added an assist as the San Jose Sharks edged the visiting Montreal Canadiens 7-5 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini scored a goal and added three assists as San Jose extended its win streak to three games.<\/p>\n
Will Smith and Collin Graf each had a goal and an assist, and Michael Misa, Alexander Wennberg and Adam Gaudette also tallied for San Jose.<\/p>\n
Yaroslav Askarov made 32 saves.<\/p>\n
Alex Newhook scored twice. Oliver Kapanen, Phillip Danault, and Ivan Demidov also found the back of the net for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n
Mike Matheson had three assists while Jake Evans chipped in a pair of helpers for Montreal, which failed to pick up a point for the first time in eight games (5-1-2).<\/p>\n
Jakub Dobes stopped 21 shots.<\/p>\n
San Jose squandered a 5-2 lead in the third, but Sherwood netted the winner, tapping home a cross-ice feed from Philipp Kurashev at 16:34.<\/p>\n
Gaudette added the empty-netter at 19:56.<\/p>\n
After Smith gave the Sharks a 5-2 lead, the Canadiens scored twice in an 18-second span.<\/p>\n
Montreal pulled to 5-3 on a power play as Demidov one-timed a Lane Hutson cross-ice feed short-side.<\/p>\n
Newhook made it a one-goal game at 5:20, snapping a shot past Askarov.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens center added his second of the period on a power play at 10:56, banking a shot off Askarov and in to tie it 5-5.<\/p>\n
The Sharks scored twice in a 25-second span in the final 1:37 of the second to open a two-goal lead.<\/p>\n
San Jose took its first lead at 18:23 as Celebrini snapped a rolling puck five-hole past Dobes.<\/p>\n
Wennberg made it 4-2 at 18:48, taking a pass from Sherwood and snapping a shot from the slot past Dobes.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens took a 2-1 lead at 5:09 of the middle frame as Danault redirected a Matheson point shot past Askarov.<\/p>\n
Misa tied it 2-2, banging home a loose puck in the slot at 10:28 of the second.<\/p>\n
Kapanen opened the scoring at 6:18 of the first period, fooling Askarov with a shot through the legs of Sharks defenseman John Klingberg.<\/p>\n
San Jose tied it 1-1 at 15:32 of the first as Graf tapped in a cross-ice feed from Smith for his 16th of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sherwood scored the eventual game-winner and added an assist as the San Jose Sharks edged the visiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-203541","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203541","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=203541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}