Team Teal returns from the holiday break and snaps its three-game skid in a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
The Sharks struck first early in the opening period, when Ryan Reaves poked one in for his third goal of the season, assisted by Barclay Goodrow and Vincent Iorio. Soon after, John Klingberg scored his ninth goal of the season, assisted by Macklin Celebrini, to extend the Sharks’ lead to two. The Canucks then responded on a power play goal by Linus Karlsson to get themselves on the board. Later in the second period, the Sharks regained their two-goal advantage on William Eklund’s ninth goal of the season.
Within the first minute of the third period, the Canucks got back within one via Marco Rossi. This goal deflected off of Yaroslav Askarov and into the back of the net, and Yaroslav Askarov first appeared to have injured himself on that play but was able to get back up just fine and stay in this contest. Later in the third period, the Sharks made it a two-goal game once more on Igor Chernyshov’s first NHL goal, assisted by Adam Gaudette and Dmitry Orlov. The Canucks responded with a shorthanded goal by Drew O’Connor to further keep themselves in this game. The Sharks added two more goals late in the final frame to cap this one off, both of which were scored in a span of 35 seconds. The first of these last two goals was Macklin Celebrini’s 20th of the season, assisted by Igor Chernyshov and William Eklund, followed by an empty-netter from Collin Graf for his 11th goal of the season, assisted by Alexander Wennberg and Mario Ferraro.
Yaroslav Askarov bounced back from his previous start on Tuesday in Vegas, recording 24 saves on 27 shots against. In addition, Ethan Cardwell has been sent back to the Barracuda, while Vincent Iorio was back on the Sharks blue line in place of Nick Leddy in his hometown of Vancouver.
The Sharks started off their post-holiday break sprint on the right footing and getting contributions from nearly everyone, most notably Macklin Celebrini, Igor Chernyshov, and William Eklund. Chernyshov scored his first goal in the NHL and Celebrini now has 20 goals on the campaign. All three of Chernyshov, Celebrini, and Eklund each recorded a goal and an assist in this complete win for San Jose, and Eklund was certainly overdue for a performance like this. Overall, this was a great, much-needed win for the Sharks in a building and city that they have struggled in for the past several seasons until tonight. Next up, the Sharks travel back to California and visit the Anaheim Ducks on Monday at 7 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports California, NHL App
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