SAN JOSE \u2014 The San Jose Sharks beat goalie Carter Hart just once in regulation and once in the shootout in a 2-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday at SAP Center.<\/p>\n
Ivar Stenberg scored in the shootout, but goalie Yaroslav Askarov allowed goals to Matyas Sapovaliv and Braedan Bowman as the Sharks fell to 0-1-1 in the preseason.<\/p>\n
The Sharks took a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal at the 4:18 mark of the third period as Michael Misa tapped a loose puck beside the net past Hart, who finished with 28 saves. Alexander Wennberg and Dmitry Orlov had the assists.<\/p>\n
Askarov finished with 22 saves in his first preseason game. Two of Askarov\u2019s more notable saves came midway through the second period: he made a glove save on Jonas Rondbjerg\u2019s close-range chance and a pad save shortly after on a Jackson Hallum breakaway a few seconds later, as he got behind the Sharks\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n
Vegas tied the game with an even-strength goal at the 8:22 mark of the third. Alexander Holtz found some space in the slot, took a pass from Tanner Laczynski and beat a screened Askarov to the blocker side with a quick shot.<\/p>\n
The game marked Stenberg\u2019s NHL preseason debut. He and linemates Wennberg and Collin Graf combined to register five of the Sharks\u2019 15 shots on goal, and three of the team\u2019s five high danger chances, through two periods.<\/p>\n
Stenberg was part of the Sharks\u2019 top power-play unit and was on the ice at the start of overtime when San Jose had a brief man advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t need him to go out and be someone he\u2019s not tonight,\u201d Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said of Stenberg before Tuesday\u2019s game. \u201cJust play his game, and we\u2019ll make some corrections as we go, but we want him to get comfortable on the North American sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sharks finish the preseason with games against the Anaheim Ducks at home on Thursday and the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday before finalizing their 23-man roster. San Jose\u2019s regular season opener is Oct. 1 at home against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 The San Jose Sharks beat goalie Carter Hart just once in regulation and once in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,402,181,404,88,90,89,98,94685,127],"class_list":["post-472834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-social-alert","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472834","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=472834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}