The Sharks got off to yet another slow start and and unsurprisingly trailed the entire game, losing to the Vegas Golden Knights 7-3 in their ninth consecutive defeat to start their 2024-25 campaign.
Considering the underlying circumstances of this one, I am not shocked at all by how this game went down. The Golden Knights kicked things off by scoring three goals in the first period via Tanner Pearson, Jack Eichel, and Brett Howden. As for the third goal of the first period by Vegas, the primary assist went to Tomas Hertl in his first game against his former team, and something about Tomas Hertl in a Knights uniform still doesn't sit well with me and many other Sharks fans.
Late in the second period, the Sharks got on the board to cut their deficit to two on Mikael Granlund's fourth goal of the year, with assists from William Eklund and Mario Ferraro. The Golden Knights followed the Sharks' first goal of the contest with two from William Karlsson and Pavel Dorofeyev to give Vegas a four-goal lead, while Nico Sturm got one back for the Sharks right before the end of the second period.
The Knights weren't done yet, with Mark Stone scoring in the third period to make it 6-2, while San Jose responded soon after on Luke Kunin's second goal of the year, with Fabian Zetterlund picking up the lone assist on this goal. Vegas finished this one off with about three minutes remaining in regulation on Brett Howden's second goal of the game, with Tomas Hertl picking up his second assist of the night on this last goal.
This Sharks team did not do Vitek Vanecek any favors in this one, completing his night with 35 saves on 42 shots against.
Team Teal also achieved a historically bad feat with this loss, as they became the first NHL team to ever become winless in their first nine games in back-to-back seasons. This skid and misery clouding this Sharks team seems like it will never end, but something has to give at some point. They will eventually snap out of this, but no one knows when yet and what exactly it will take for them to do so. San Jose will earn another attempt to get its first win of the season on Monday, when they travel to Salt Lake City to face the Utah Hockey Club in the first-ever regular season game between these two teams at 6:00 pm PT.
Sources: Sharks Audio Network, NHL App, Curtis Pashelka via Twitter/X
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