Team Teal began this game on a high note, but then the floodgates opened from there as the Dallas Stars dominated the rest of this game, taking this one 8-3.
The Sharks got off to a great start to this one, scoring the first two goals early in the opening period. These occurred in the first few minutes, beginning with a magnificent behind-the-back pass by Macklin Celebrini to set up William Eklund for his 11th goal of the season, with Tyler Toffoli collecting the secondary assist on the opening goal. Team Teal followed that up with Fabian Zetterlund’s 15th goal of the season to make it a two-goal game, assisted by Will Smith and Andrew Poturalski. However, this great start by the Sharks would evaporate, as the Dallas Stars responded with three unanswered goals from Matt Duchene, Jason Robertson, and Mason Marchment throughout the remainder of the first period to take the lead.
The Stars resumed scoring in the second period, adding two more goals via Matt Duchene’s second goal of the game and Mavrik Borque to extend their lead to three. Dallas kept going in the third period, scoring twice more via Wyatt Johnston and Thomas Harley. San Jose got one back soon after on Walker Duehr’s second goal of the season, assisted by Carl Grundstrom and Ty Dellandrea, only for the Stars to answer back via Jamie Benn to regain their five-goal lead.
Vitek Vanecek finished his night with 26 saves on 34 shots against. In addition, Collin White was recently placed on waivers for the purpose of being sent back down to the Barracuda, and Klim Kostin was activated from IR but did not play tonight. On the flip side, it’s great to hear that the Sharks rank at the top of The Athletic’s NHL prospect pool list.
Heading into the Four Nations Faceoff break, the Sharks sit firmly in dead last in the entire NHL with 37 points and a 15-35-7 record. After the next two weeks, the Sharks resume action on the road in Calgary against the Flames on Sunday, February 23 at 5 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports Bay Area/California, NHL App, San Jose Sharks PR
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