The Anaheim Ducks defeated the San Jose Sharks 5-2 in the preseason at the SAP Center on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Ducks got goals from Beckett Sennecke, Cutter Gauthier, Sam Colangelo, Olen Zellweger, and Frank Vatrano. Calle Clang stopped 26 shots.<\/p>\n
The Sharks got two third period goals from William Eklund<\/a> and Jeff Skinner<\/a>. Yaroslav Askarov made 20 saves.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we give up too much in the back,\u201d Eklund said. \u201cWe are forwards, we have to track back better. Get to a better place with the pucks. We gave up way too many 2-on-1s and breakaways. We got to clean that stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/p>\n Philipp Kurashev played another fantastic game, this time at center. He had the primary assist on Skinner\u2019s goal, and hit the crossbar on a mini-breakaway moments before.<\/p>\n Michael Misa got better<\/a> as the game went on. He played on the San Jose Sharks defaco top line with Eklund and Tyler Toffoli. Misa was on the second power-play unit.<\/p>\n \u201cI gotta look at the film. I thought watching it live, [Misa and Sam Dickinson] did some good things,\u201d Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said. \u201cThen when the pace gets going, they\u2019re on their heels a little bit. They gotta be a little bit harder on their stick at times. Move pucks a little bit quicker, but it\u2019s all to be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n Sennecke gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 1:09 of the second period. After a face-off win, Sennecke made a move to the slot and beat Askarov by the blocker.<\/p>\n Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/p>\n Colangelo made it 2-0 at 6:38 with a wrist shot over the blocker of Askarov on a breakaway. Drew Helleson sent the head man pass that got by Dmitry Orlov.<\/p>\n Gauthier extended the Ducks\u2019 lead to 3-0 with a breakaway goal at 7:55. After a puck got by Orlov, Gauthier raced down the ice and beat Askarov over the blocker.<\/p>\n Eklund made it 3-1 50 seconds into the third period with a power-play goal. After Will Smith\u2019s one-timer shot from the right point deflected off Tyler Toffoli in front, Eklund went around the net and tapped the puck into an open goal.<\/p>\n Skinner cut it to 3-2 at 5:22 after Philipp Kurashev fed a pass from the left wing to the top of the right circle. Skinner\u2019s one-timer beat Clang by the glove.<\/p>\n Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/p>\n Zellweger added an empty net goal to make it 4-2 at 18:29.<\/p>\n Vatrano scored another empty net goal with 16 seconds left to make it 5-2.<\/p>\n Read more news and stories about the San Jose Sharks on\u00a0Sharks Hockey Digest<\/a>! Bookmark the page and follow Sharks Hockey Digest on Twitter @SharksHKYDigest<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks defeated the San Jose Sharks 5-2 in the preseason at the SAP Center on Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[824,2100,3259,12863,88,90,89,98,755,3578,2105],"class_list":{"0":"post-71864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-jeff-skinner","10":"tag-michael-misa","11":"tag-philipp-kurashev","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-sj-sharks","17":"tag-will-smith","18":"tag-william-eklund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71864","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=71864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}