A two-goal performance from William Eklund and Macklin Celebrini’s first career game-winning goal propel the Sharks to a 5-4 OT victory over the Detroit Red Wings.
The Sharks gave up the first goal of the game early in the first period to Dylan Larkin to put the Red Wings on the board. San Jose responded soon after on its first power play of the game via William Eklund’s third goal of the season, who extends his point streak to four games. Assists on Eklund’s third goal of the game were credited to Alex Wennberg and Jake Walman. In the final two minutes of the first period, the Red Wings regained their lead with a power-play goal of their own in the form of Marco Kasper’s second NHL goal.
Early in the second period, William Eklund scored his fourth goal of the season and second goal of the game to even the game at two, which went off of the top of Cam Talbot’s glove and into the net. Assists on Eklund’s second goal of the game went to Mario Ferraro and Fabian Zetterlund. About a few minutes later, Alex Wennberg gave the puck away near a Red Wings skater, and the puck goes off of Henry Turin’s skate and into the Sharks net, in which the own goal was credited to Michael Rasmussen to retake the lead for Detroit. Within the last minute of the second period, Tyler Toffoli scored his ninth goal of the season to tie the game at three, with assists from Alex Wennberg and Ty Dellandrea.
Early in the third period, the Sharks grabbed their first lead of the night on Luke Kunin's third goal of the season, with Carl Grundstrom and Henry Thrun helping set up the Sharks' first go-ahead goal of this one. However, with just over two minutes remaining in regulation, Team Teal allowed Alex DeBrincat to even the game up at four, which first went off of a diving Mario Ferraro and then DeBrincat pots one in off his own rebound to force overtime. As for the OT period, it only took 46 seconds for Macklin Celebrini to score his fourth NHL goal and first game-winner of his NHL career to complete the victory for the Sharks over the Red Wings, with Mikael Granlund and Cody Ceci picking up the helpers on this huge and important OT GWG.
Mackenzie Blackwood earned the win in net for Team Teal, recording 16 saves on 20 shots against. His best save in this game against the Red Wings occurred early in the second period when he performed the splits and robbed a surefire goal by Andrew Copp with his right pad. Earlier today, the Sharks called up their goalie of the future, Yaroslav Askarov, from the Barracuda, as Vitek Vanecek is currently day-to-day with an upper-body injury. In his relatively small sample size in the AHL this season, Askarov has compiled a 6-3-0 record with a 1.92 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage. It has yet to be determined when Askarov will make his Sharks debut, but right now the Sharks net is Blackwood's to lose.
This was a mostly back-and-forth game between the Sharks and Red Wings, but the Sharks fought hard and came through in the clutch when it mattered most, resulting in one of their biggest offensive outputs in a while and in a game this season. Most importantly, William Eklund had his biggest performance of the season so far, and the first of many game-winning goals for Macklin Celebrini was accomplished, the latter of whom was the third-youngest in NHL history at the time of scoring his first game-winner per NHL Public Relations. The Sharks head back out on the road again, this time to the Midwest for a back-to-back set starting in Dallas against the Stars on Wednesday at 5 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App, Curtis Pashelka via X
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