The Sharks' three-game win streak has been snapped, as they lose 7-4 to the Detroit Red Wings.
Team Teal had a chance in this one, but the Red Wings were too much for the Sharks to handle. There were some positives from this game, but the home woes continue. The Sharks struck first fairly early in the first, with Erik Karlsson making an incredible behind-the-back, between-the-legs pass to Kevin Labanc, who deposits it into the net. Timo Meier picked up the other assist on the first goal by Kevin Labanc. About a few minutes later, Filip Hronek tied the game at one for the Red Wings. Soon after the 1-1 tie, Matt Nieto scores his third goal of the season to go ahead 2-1, with Erik Karlsson picking up his second assist of the game and Nick Cicek picking up his first NHL point on that play. In addition, this marks Erik Karlsson's ninth multi-point game of the season.
The Red Wings scored the next two goals during the second half of the middle frame via David Perron and Jake Walman to get their first lead of the night 3-2 through two periods of play.
Early in the third period, Joe Veleno scores to extend the Red Wings' lead to two. Around the midway point of the third period, the Sharks scored the next two goals: Logan Couture to get within one and Erik Karlsson to tie at four after the latter's shot made a lucky deflection off of the backside of Andrew Copp to find the back of the net. EK65 now has a total of four points on the night, and the only player in the NHL to currently have more points than him this season is Connor McDavid. Jaycob Megna, Kevin Labanc, and Tomas Hertl also recorded assists on the Sharks' last two goals of the game. Late in the third, it was all Red Wings from there as Moritz Seider scored the go-ahead goal and the game-winner to put Detroit up 5-4. this was followed by another goal a few-minutes later in which Pius Suter dodged a poke check by James Reimer when he was out of his crease, putting Reimer in a vulnerable position for the easy tap-in. Lastly, the Red Wings added an empty-net dagger with 1:15 remaining via Dominik Kubalik to put up a seven-spot and win by three.
James Reimer didn't have his best performance in net at home against the Red Wings, making 14 saves on 20 shots against.
In other news, a recent report suggested that the Sharks have spoken to the Ottawa Senators about a potential trade for Erik Karlsson to return to Ottawa, but it was nothing too serious. On the other hand, the NHL introduced a new rule stating that players that entered the league starting in the 2019-20 season and later will be required to wear helmets in warmups going forward. All other players can decide for themselves if they want to wear helmets in warmups or not. This new rule is designed to further prevent head injuries but at the same time is ridiculous and doesn't make much of, if not any difference in that regard.
The Sharks have fallen down to earth after returning home from a great road trip in which they took three of four games. Although they had some momentum and big performances from certain players, they didn't have much momentum, and this didn't feel very good. They will try to fix their struggles at home in their next game on Saturday, when they face the New York Rangers at 7:30 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App, NHL Discussion via Instagram
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