The San Jose Sharks Blog

        The Sharks played a very good game against the lightning. They started out fast as Setoguchi scored a goal at 2:17 in the first to give the Sharks a 1 goal lead. Then at 14:05 the Lightning took a tripping penalty which resulted in a Thornton goal 14 seconds later making the score 2 to 0 Sharks. That wrapped up the first period with the Sharks taking 17 shots to the Lightning’s 8 shots.

         The 2nd had a lot more scoring. At 7:47 the Lightning scored a goal to make the score 2 to 1. That didn’t last long because at 10:00 Thornton scored his 2nd goal of the night. Thats when the Lightning got into trouble. At 17:21 Michaleak scored a power play goal to give the Sharks a 3 goal lead. Then 2 minutes and 35 seconds later Clowe scored another power play goal to make the score 5 to 1 Sharks. That wrapped up the 2nd period with the Sharks taking 13 shot and the Lightning taking 10 shots.

          The 3rd period was just like the 1st. Pavelski scored a goal at 34 seconds to make the score 6 to 1 Sharks. At 2:12 Plihal scored the final goal of the game making the final score 7 to 1 Sharks. The Sharks took 12 shots in the 3rd period and 42 shots total. The Lightning took 7 shots in the 3rd and 25 total.

3rd Star  J .Pavelski             2nd Star D. Murray            1st Star P. Marleau

The Sharks played a great game against the Capitals. The game started out fast when at 3:24 Shelly got into a fight with Brashear. Unfortunately for Shelly Brashear won. But it really got the Sharks pumped up. The were controlling all of the play. Then at 9:13 of the first period Marleau got the Sharks on the board. That goal really got the Sharks moving because at 12:34 Clowe scored to make the score 2-0 Sharks . Then only 3 minutes and 11 seconds later Setoguchi scored to make the score 3-0 Sharks. That was about it for the first period with the Sharks taking only 5 shots and the Capitals taking 8 shots.

The Sharks looked a little less energized at the beginning of the 2nd period. It started out with Poti scoring a goal for the Capitals  to make the score 3-1 Sharks. That really woke up the Sharks who came back and Thornton scored a Power Play goal for the Sharks at 12:19. Then at 19:27 Vlasic scored a goal making the score 5-1 Sharks. That ended up the period with the Sharks taking 10 shots and the Capitals taking 8 shots.

Again in the 3rd period the Capitals scored first at 2:19 when Fleischmann scored a Power Play goal making the score 5-2. That made the Sharks motivated to score more goals. At 5:44 Clowe scored his second goal of the game to make the score 6-2 Sharks. That quieted things down until 19:07 when Mike Grier scored the final goal of the game making the score 7-2 Sharks. That ended the game with the Sharks taking 13 shots in the third and a total of 28 shots and with the Capitals taking 5 shots in the third and 21 shots total.

3rd Star: D Murray     2nd Star: D. Setoguchi    1st Star: R. Blake

The Sharks played a very intense game against the Predators. Again they came out really hard and it paid off because at 14:38 Setoguchi scored another power play goal to get the Sharks off on a great start. Then at 16:05 Shelley scored his first goal of the season giving the sharks a 2 goal lead. The Sharks played a great first period with a 2 goal lead coming into the second period. The Sharks took 14 shots that period and the Predators had only had 5.

The second period started out about the same. Plihal scored the Sharks 3rd goal of the game at 7:43. Shelley got in a fight at 11:45 with De Vries. Then only 33 seconds later Marleau scored a goal and made the score 4 to 0 Sharks. That was about it for the second period with the Sharks taking 10 shots and the Predators taking 12.

 The third period wasn’t as good for the Sharks. At 9:27 Legwand scored the Predators only goal. Only 6 minutes in the period the game got very interesting. At 6:40 Joe Thornton dropped the gloves with Nichol and they went at it. Then 2 seconds later at 6:42 Staubitz and Tootoo went at it. Then at 6:46 Shelly and De Vries went at it for a second time that game. After that the game cooled down and ended calmly with the Sharks taking 8 shots in the third,  taking 32 shots total, and scoring 4 goals. The Predators took 16 shots in the third, taking 33 shots total, and scoring 1 goal.

3rd: Star J. Shelly        2nd Star: P. Marleau      3rd Star: J. Thornton

The Sharks played very well last night. The Sharks and Blackhawks played a very back and forth type of game. The Sharks started out fast with Michalek scoring just 42 seconds in. Things cooled down after that until 8:51 when Versteeg a short-handed goal for the Balckhawks to make the score 1 to 1. Then after that less than a minute Thorton scored a power play goal on the same power play that the Blackhawks just scored on. Then things  got real exciting when Murray and Burish got in a fight. After that Campbell scored a goal at 17:33 to tie the game at 2. That was it for the first period with the Sharks taking 12 shots and the Blackhawks taking 10 shots.

 Then at the beginning of the second period the Sharks came out hard again because at 5:51 Boyle scored a power play goal to give the Sharks a 1 goal lead. Then at 9:10 Roenick scored another goal to make the score 4 to 2. After That it was all Blackhawks for the period. At 10:53 Versteeg scored his second goal for the night which made the score 4 to 3 Sharks lead. Then at 17:34 Barker scored a goal for the Blackhawks to tie the game at 4. Then only 18 seconds later Kane scored another goal to go give the Blackhawks their first lead of the Game 5 to 4. That was it for the second with the Sharks taking only 6 shots and The Blackhawks taking 15.

The third period was all sharks because at 1:00 into the third period Boyle scored his second goal of the night and tied the game at 5 on the power play. The Sharks were pressing really wanting that sixth goal and at 15:45 Setoguchi scored another power play goal to give the Sharks a one goal lead that would last the rest of the game. The Sharks took 13 shots in te third period and 31 total as the Blackhawks took 8 shots in the third and 33 total.

3rd Star: R. Blake               2nd Star: D. Boyle               1st Star: D. Setoguchi

The Sharks came out hard in the first period. They scored 4 goals 3 of them were on the power play. The first goal came from Pavelski at 8:04 and the first of the power play goals. Then only 27 seconds later Michalek scored the only even strength goal in the period.Marleau scored the 3rd goal again on the power play at 15:02 and tying Owen Nolan’s record for most power play goals. Then to make things worse for the Flames Thorton scored the last goal of the period at 17:42 making the score 4 to 0 Sharks. The Shot Totals for the period were the Sharks 20 and The Flames 5.

The second period wasn’t as action packed as the first. But at 1:18 of the second period Michalek got his second goal of the night making the score 5 to 0 Sharks. That was all the scoring of the second period with the Sharks at a five goal advantage and taking 15 shots and the Flames taking 8.

The third period the Flames knew that they had to score. They pressed very hard. But at 3:13 the Flames took a penalty which only 22 seconds later Pavelski got a power play goal and his second goal of the night. After Pavelski scored the Flames knew that they had to do something. So at 10:13 of the period they did. Cammalleri scored the flames one and only goal of the game. That was about it for the game with the Flames taking 11 shots that period and 24 overall . The Sharks took 11 shots in the third and 46 overall. The final score was 6 to 1 Sharks over the Flames.

3rd Star: B. Staubitz                    2nd Star:  J. Pavelski                1st Star: M. Michalek