Team Teal had a great start and first period but fully imploded down the stretch as they close out their current five-game road trip with a 7-5 loss to the Nashville Predators.
The Sharks opened the scoring within the first two minutes of this one on Macklin Celebrini’s 14th NHL goal, going top shelf on Juuse Saros, assisted by Cody Ceci and William Eklund. San Jose’s offense further came alive in the first period, scoring the next two via Luke Kunin’s 11th goal of the season from Cody Ceci and Mikael Granlund’s 13th goal of the season from Will Smith and Fabian Zetterlund. Soon after, the Predators got on the board via Tommy Novak. Towards the end of the opening period, the Sharks regained their three-goal lead on Jake Walman’s sixth goal of the season, assisted by Alex Wennberg.
Early in the second period, Team Teal extended its lead to four on a tic-tac-toe power play goal by Mikael Granlund for his second of the game and 14th of the season, assisted by William Eklund and Macklin Celebrini. The Predators went on to score the next two goals in the second period via Fedor Svechkov and Justin Barron to cut the Sharks’ lead down to two.
Nashville remained resilient heading into the third period, as they added two more goals early in the final frame via Jonathan Marchessault and Roman Josi to tie the game at five. Soon after, the Predators gained their first lead of the night, as Nick Blankenburg gets one to trickle in during a scenario in which Alexandar Georgiev could have easily made a save. Nashville put one final touch on their complete comeback, adding an empty-netter via Filip Forsberg to make it 7-5.
Alexandar Georgiev made his fourth start in five games for Team Teal, registering 34 saves on 40 shots against. In addition, Nico Sturm, Tyler Toffoli, and Marc-Eduoard Vlasic are all out, the former two of which are dealing with injuries.
It all seemed to be going well for the Sharks through early in the second period, but it all came crashing down during the back half of this one, as they seemingly gave up in the third period and the Predators finished off their biggest comeback in a regular season game in franchise history. Although this loss was certainly one of their most disheartening this season, on a more positive note, Macklin Celebrini’s two points tonight increased his total to 34 in his rookie campaign. This sets the Sharks franchise record for most points scored by an 18-year old in a season.
The Sharks and Predators face each other again on Thursday, this time at SAP Center in San Jose at 7:30 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App, Curtis Pashelka via X
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