The Sharks complete the comeback in the third period for their third win over the Calgary Flames this season 4-3.
The last period of this game was filled with chaos, which ended with a miraculous win. However, it wasn't entirely chaos for much of the game. First off, the Flames scored the first two goals of the contest in in the first via Johnny Gaudreau and Dillon Dube, grabbing a fairly early two-goal lead until later in the first, when Marc-Eduoard Vlasic scored his second goal of the season to get the Sharks within one through the first period.
The Flames regained their two-goal lead in the second period via Mikael Backlund, while Timo Meier got the Sharks back within one with a spin-o-rama wrister from an unusual angle. Brent Burns and Alexander Barabanov assisted on the Timo Time goal in the second period.
The final frame was when the chaos ensued. Early on in the third, Matthew Tkachuk got away with an elbow on Jonah Gadjovich, which led to a large scuffle and further incidents. Apparently Jacob Markstrom had speared Nicolas Meloche in the groin with his stick and got away with it, and the only one getting penalized from this scuffle was Jeff Viel, who received two minutes for roughing and a ten-minute game misconduct. James Reimer saw his first penalty shot attempt all season, in which he made a nifty glove save on Johnny Gaudreau. Most importantly, Alexander Barabanov tied the game at around the 11-minute mark, while Logan Couture scored the game-winner seconds later. The officials had to double-check to see if what would end up being the game-winner was good, and it certainly was. Assisting on the last two goals of the game were Tomas Hertl, Noah Gregor, and Sasha Chmelevski. The last few minutes of this game saw the Flames scramble for another goal to tie this game and James Reimer playing out of his mind, shutting the door on Calgary's offense.
In all, despite giving up three goals, James Reimer was outstanding in net and one of the main factors in the Sharks' comeback win over the Flames, recording 28 saves.
Although the Sharks pulled off an amazing comeback win over the first place team in the Pacific, it may have come at the cost of Timo Meier, who had to exit the game in the third period after suffering a lower-body injury. This is quite concerning since Timo has been the Sharks' top scorer this season.
Overall, this was an impressive victory by the Sharks that not many people saw coming. It was also the Flames' first loss in regulation when leading after two periods this season. Next up the Sharks continue their current brief road trip in Edmonton to face the Oilers on Thursday at 6 pm PT, which will be Kaapo Kahkonen's first start for the Sharks since they acquired him on Monday in the Jake Middleton trade.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App
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