The Sharks were unable to recover from a quick start and huge second period by the Tampa Bay Lightning, as they fall 7-3 to snap their three-game win streak.
The Lightning scored three times via Brayden Point, Darren Raddysh, and Brandon Hagel early in the first period to get this contest going. After the third Bolts goal was scored by Hagel, the Sharks were fast to pull Yaroslav Askarov from their net, who only made five saves on eight shots against and lasted less than seven minutes, and replace him with Alex Nedeljkovic. Not long after, the Sharks got on the board on a power play goal from Pavol Regenda for his third goal of the season to cut their deficit to two, assisted by Timothy Liljegren and Macklin Celebrini. It was also great to see Regenda redeem himself after getting robbed by Andrei Vasilevskiy on his first shot of the game right before scoring, and Celebrini's point streak is now at ten games.
Tampa Bay picked back up where it left off early in the second period, scoring two more on a slapshot goal from Darren Raddysh for his second geno of the game and a backhander from Dominic James to make it 5-1. The Sharks got one back later in the second period on Pavol Regenda's second goal of the game and fourth goal of the season, assisted by Timothy Liljegren and Jeff Skinner. About four minutes later, the Lightning would regain their four-goal lead on a power-play marker by Nikita Kucherov for his fourth point of the day. Following this goal was a full-blown scrum between these two teams initiated by the Sharks' rough-and-tumble fourth-line forwards as a result of JJ Moser targeting Macklin Celebrini a few times during this period. William Eklund went after Moser and nearly dropped the gloves with him as well prior to the full-blown scrum. With about three minutes left in the middle frame, Darren Raddysh scored his third goal of the game for his first NHL hat trick to extend the Bolts' lead to five.
Late in the third period, Pavol Regenda scored his third goal of the game and fifth goal of the season for his first NHL hat trick, assisted by Jeff Skinner. Not only was there a bit of a delay after the hat trick goal was scored by Regenda for hats thrown onto the ice, but free soccer balls that were given away by the Sharks to fans in attendance were thrown onto the ice as well.
Alex Nedeljkovic recorded 12 saves on 16 shots against in relief for Askarov. In addition, Timothy Liljegren returned to the Sharks blue line from injury, while John Klingberg was out due to injury. Shakir Mukhamadullin did not return after the first few minutes of this game due to injury, and Alexander Wennberg was named to Team Sweden's Olympic roster for this year as well.
Besides Pavol Regenda providing all of the Sharks offense, Macklin Celebrini extending his point streak to ten games, and certain Sharks forwards doing a good job standing up for their best player after he was targeted, this was simply a rough outing for Team Teal. The Sharks host the Columbus Blue Jackets in their next game on Tuesday at 7 pm PT.
Sources: NBC Sports California, NHL App, Sheng Peng via X
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