The Sharks went toe-to-toe with the Canucks and earned their fourth and most impressive win of the season, a 4-3 victory over Vancouver.
The Canucks nearly had the first goal of the game via Sam Lafferty, but was overturned after a successful challenge for goalie interference by David Quinn. However, the Sharks were able to seize that honor later in the first period, with Ty Emberson scoring his first NHL goal and the first goal by a Sharks defenseman this season. Assists on the Emberson goal went to Tomas Hertl and Mike Hoffman. Not long after, the Canucks scored their official first goal of the game via Filip Hronek to tie it up at one.
Team Teal went back ahead by one on Fabian Zetterlund’s fifth goal of the year, with Tomas Hertl recording his second assist of the night. Vancouver responded before the end of the second period, with Brock Boeser scoring to even things up at two.
The Sharks were firing on all cylinders to start the third, going up by two on goals by Mikael Granlund and Mike Hoffman. Calen Addison assisted on both third-period goals, while Mario Ferraro assisted on the first of these two and Granlund on the second of these two. In addition, these were Granlund’s first goal of the season and Hoffman’s team-leading sixth goal of the season respectively. Moments later, Elias Pettersson hip-checked Calen Addison near the boards, causing Addison to fall awkwardly onto the ice and every skater on the ice at the time to get involved in a large scuffle. After the scuffle simmered down, Matt Benning received two minutes each for roughing and cross-checking, Sam Lafferty received two minutes for roughing, and Calen Addison and Mark Friedman each received ten-minute game misconducts. With just over three minutes remaining, Brock Boeser scored his second goal of the game to put the Canucks within one, but it ended up being too little too late. In the final moments of this game, Nico Sturm had blocked a shot and headed straight for the bench in a ton of pain.
Kaapo Kahkonen was great in net against the Canucks tonight, making a total of 30 saves on 33 shots against.
What a win by the Sharks, especially against one of the better teams in league and a team they gave up ten goals against in their first matchup earlier this season. This is definitely one that they will look back at in awe of and build off of, especially from a confidence standpoint. Team Teal concludes its current homestand on Monday, hosting the Washington Capitals at 7:30 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App
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