SAN JOSE \u2013 William Eklund and Adam Gaudette scored goals 1:14 apart in the second period to help lift the Sharks to a penalty-filled and sometimes feisty 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday afternoon at SAP Center.<\/p>\n
Eklund\u2019s power play goal from a sharp angle off an assist from Macklin Celebrini at the 14:03 mark of the second period tied the game 2-2. Just over a minute later, Gaudette jammed at a loose puck that was beside the post and next to the left pad of Canucks goalie Nikita Tolopilo.<\/p>\n
It was not ruled a goal on the ice, but after the NHL initiated a video review, it was determined that Gaudette\u2019s shot completely crossed the Canucks\u2019 goal line at the 15:17 mark of the second period.<\/p>\n
That was enough offense for goalie Yaroslav Askarov, who made 32 saves for his ninth win this month, as he and the Sharks bounced back from a 6-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
There was a total of 38 penalty minutes handed out on Friday, including six with 1.9 seconds left in regulation after a scrum in the corner to the left of the Sharks\u2019 net.<\/p>\n
Special teams were huge for the Sharks as Celebrini also assisted on Will Smith\u2019s first-period power-play goal to help San Jose go 2-for-6 with the man advantage. The Sharks also killed every penalty they took, as the Canucks, officially, went 0-for-9 on the power play.<\/p>\n
The Sharks, who entered Friday two points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference, are now 9-4-1 this month.<\/p>\n
The Sharks, who now have a 3-12-5 record against the Canucks since the start of the 2019-2020 season, finish November with a game Saturday night in Las Vegas against the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n
The Sharks allowed an even-strength goal to Canucks winger Brock Boeser at the 4:28 mark of the first period, but got that goal back on the man advantage slightly less than five minutes later.<\/p>\n
With Quinn Hughes serving an interference penalty, Alexander Wennberg took a pass from Celebrini and sent a pass across the crease to Smith, who scored his eighth of the season on a wide-open net to snap a seven-game goal drought.<\/p>\n
The goal marked the 37th time that Smith and Celebrini have combined on a goal in less than one-and-a-half seasons.<\/p>\n
LINEUP CHANGES<\/p>\n
Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky made some changes to his defense pairs for Friday\u2019s game, inserting John Klingberg and Vincent Iorio into the lineup and scratching Shakir Mukhamadullin and Vincent Desharnais.<\/p>\n
Klingberg was paired with Mario Ferraro, and Iorio was with rookie Sam Dickinson.<\/p>\n
Warsofsky wants to keep his defenseman, eight of them, at least, as fresh as he can. Iorio, who just completed a two-week conditioning loan with the Barracuda, was a healthy scratch for Wednesday\u2019s 6-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, and was playing his first NHL game since Oct. 26 when the Sharks beat the Minnesota Wild 6-5 in overtime.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s game also marked Nick Leddy\u2019s fifth straight healthy scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 William Eklund and Adam Gaudette scored goals 1:14 apart in the second period to help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-74360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74360","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=74360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}