The Sharks played fairly well, and both teams scored in every period, but late-game heroics by the Ottawa Senators puts them over the top with a 5-4 victory over Team Teal.
The Senators jumped out to a two-goal lead in the first period on goals from Claude Giroux and Thomas Chabot before Anthony Duclair scored to narrow the Sharks' deficit to one, with Alexander Barabanov and Mario Ferraro getting the assists on Duclair's eighth goal of the season. The Sharks came out firing to start the second period, scoring two goals from Marc-Eduoard Vlasic to gain their first lead of the day. These were Vlasic's first goal of the year and first goal in 60 games, with assists from Anthony Duclair and Mikael Granlund, and Kevin Labanc's second goal of the season and first goal in 12 games, with assists from Mario Ferraro and Mike Hoffman. However, the Sharks' lead would last for only less than a minute, as Brady Tkachuk and Drake Batherson scored to put the Senators back on top. Late in the third period, Filip Zadina would tie it at four for the Sharks, with assists going to Tomas Hertl and Mario Ferraro, but Vladimir Tarasenko would bury the game-winner with 3.3 seconds remaining for Ottawa to take the battle between last-place teams in each conference.
Despite his stat line in this game, Mackenzie Blackwood was a major factor in keeping this game close for the Sharks, recording a total of 36 saves on 41 shots against.
I had a feeling ahead of this game that the Sharks had a decent shot at winning this game, especially since the Senators hadn't won a game in the 2024 calendar year up until this point, but although the Sharks played well enough to win, the last-second go-ahead goal by Tarasenko destroyed any chance of the Sharks winning this game. Next up, the Sharks face the Buffalo Sabres on Monday at 9 am PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App
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