The Sharks produced their now biggest offensive output in a game this season, and this game offered a bit of everything, as they earn a huge win over the Seattle Kraken 8-5.
The Sharks struck first early in the opening period on Timothy Liljegren’s third goal of the season, with assists from Tyler Toffoli and Alex Wennberg. Roughly a minute later, the Kraken evened the game at one via Oliver Bjorkstrand. Late in the first period, on the Sharks power play, Klim Kostin picks up the rebound on a shot from Fabian Zetterlund and scored his first goal of the season, with William Eklund recording the secondary assist on this goal. However, after the following faceoff, Chandler Stephenson would score to tie the game at two for Seattle. Within the final minute of opening period, the Kraken gained their first lead of the day on their power play via Shane Wright scoring on a bounce that went their way.
Early in the second period, Will Smith scored a beauty for his fourth in the NHL, with the lone assist on this goal going to Mikael Granlund. Later in the second period, Shane Wright scored his second goal and second power play goal of the game for the Kraken to go back ahead by one. Following this go-ahead goal was a string of three unanswered by the Sharks, starting with Jake Walman teeing one up for his third goal of the season, with assists from William Eklund and Macklin Celebrini. This was proceeded about five minutes later by Mikael Granlund’s tenth goal of the season, assisted by Klim Kostin and Will Smith, and Macklin Celebrini’s eighth goal of the season, assisted by Fabian Zetterlund, to give the Sharks a two-goal lead for their biggest lead of the day. However, with 17 seconds remaining in the middle frame, Yanni Goirde scored to cut the Sharks’ lead back down to one.
The scoring resumed early in the third period, as Ethan Cardwell scored his first NHL goal to make it 7-5 Sharks, with assists from Nico Sturm and Henry Thrun. Soon after, Klim Kostin fought Will Borgen after Borden had pinned Mikael Granlund to the boards, completing the Gordie Howe hat trick for Kostin and the 21st Gordie Howe hat trick in Sharks history. Lastly, the Sharks finished things off with just under five minutes remaining in the game on an empty-netter by Jake Walman for his second goal of the contest and fourth of the season.
Vitek Vanecek was back in net for the Sharks, recording 26 saves on 31 shots against. In addition, yesterday, prior to this game, Barclay Goodrow was placed on IR while Ethan Cardwell was recalled from the Barracuda. On the other hand, Mikael Granlund is back in the Sharks lineup, while Jack Thompson, Givani Smith, and Carl Grundstrom were healthy scratches this afternoon.
This performance by the Sharks this afternoon was simply incredible. Besides Macklin Celebrini becoming the second 18-year old in Sharks franchise history besides Jeff Friesen to score goals in three consecutive games, I deeply admire Celebrini’s skilled skating and puck-handling, along with his ability to always keep his head up when skating with the puck. The Sharks and Kraken face each other again tomorrow, this time in Seattle at 7 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App, Curtis Pashelka via X
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