The Sharks couldn’t fully capitalize on their great start in the second of back-to-back games as they fall 3-1 to the New Jersey Devils.
Like last night against the Rangers, the Sharks got off to a quick and fantastic start against the Devils, this time on William Eklund’s second goal of the season early in the first period, assisted by Macklin Celebrini. Soon after, the Sharks almost made it 2-0 via Philipp Kurashev, but the refs immediately waved it off due to a rather obvious high touch. Later on towards the middle of the opening period, Yaroslav Askarov made his best save of the season and one of the best saves of his career so far, diving and stopping a shot by Nico Hischier with his left blocker.
Less than a minute into the second period, Dougie Hamilton scored to put the Devils on the board and tie it at one. Soon after, the Sharks went back ahead on a goal by Jeff Skinner, only for New Jersey to challenge it and the goal to be overturned due to Alex Wennberg entering the zone before the puck did en route to Skinner scoring that goal. A similar trend with the Sharks in the second period carried over from last night, as the Devils went ahead later in the middle frame on Dougie Hamilton’s second goal of the game. All three goals scored in this game up to this point were on the power play. Lastly, with just under a minute remaining in regulation, Connor Brown scored an empty-netter to put this one away for the Devils.
Yaroslav Askarov put up his best performance of the season so far, recording 27 saves on 29 shots against and making more amazing stops throughout the rest of this game besides his most notable one on Nico Hischier in the first period. In addition, Philipp Kurashev and Sam Dickinson were back in the Sharks lineup, while Michael Misa sat due to this being the second game of a back-to-back set.
Unfortunately for the Sharks, they fell back to earth a bit on the second leg of this back-to-back set between the Rangers and Devils. It was a combination of being unable to get out of their own way of their mistakes, having two goals disallowed, and being unable to solve Jake Allen for most of this contest. Team Teal was able to keep this game close for the most part, but with the Devils off to a hot start to the new season and the Sharks playing the night before, the end result to this one should not be shocking whatsoever. San Jose concludes its first major road trip of the season on Sunday in Minnesota against the Wild at 3 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports California, NHL App
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