The San Jose Sharks blew a three-goal lead within the third interval, then allowed a purpose to Zach Hyman on the 1:06 mark of additional time in a stinging 4-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday at Rogers Place.
With the Sharks main 3-0, Leon Draisaitl scored on the 1:34 mark of the third interval, then assisted on late objectives by Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard, with Bouchard’s purpose on a blast from contained in the blue line coming with 59 seconds left in regulation time.
In additional time, Timothy Liljegren turned the puck over to the Oilers. Later, Hyman shoved Liljegren into the crease, took a cross from Connor McDavid within the Sharks’ zone and one-timed a shot previous goalie Yaroslav Askarov for his twenty second purpose of the season.
The Oilers have now crushed the Sharks in 15 of their final 16 conferences, relationship again to the beginning of the 2021-22 season. Thursday’s loss additionally marked the primary time in 21 video games this season that the Sharks have misplaced a sport when main after two durations. That they had been 19-0-1.
All three Sharks objectives got here within the first interval, setting a staff report within the course of.
Collin Graf and Adam Gaudette scored first interval objectives simply 1:09 aside, and Michael Misa added his second profession NHL purpose on the 11:40 mark for a 3-0 Sharks lead.
It marked the primary time in staff historical past that the Sharks have scored three first interval objectives in three straight video games, after doing the identical towards the New York Rangers final week and the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
Goalie Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves, together with 12 within the first interval.
The Oilers, for the reason that begin of the 2021-22 season, at the moment are 15-1-0 towards San Jose, outscoring the Sharks 74-29 alongside the best way.
The Sharks’ highway journey continues with video games towards the Calgary Flames on Saturday, the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday and the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.
Spectators have been anticipating a duel between two of the NHL’s main scorers in Macklin Celebrini and McDavid, who will probably be teammates for Canada at subsequent month’s Winter Olympics in Italy.
“Tonight, I hope he doesn’t do something, and in every week, I hope he does rather a lot,” Celebrini stated earlier than Thursday’s sport. “it’ll be enjoyable to clearly play with him, however we nonetheless have 4 video games left that we have to concentrate on.”
Celebrini assisted on Graf’s purpose 26 seconds into the primary interval – which started with Graf knocking the puck off of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ stick on the Oilers’ blue line — to increase his level streak to a few video games.
For many of Thursday’s sport, the Sharks did an admiral job slowing down McDavid, the NHL’s main scorer whose purpose with 3:05 left in regulation time lower the Sharks result in 3-2.
Celebrini now has 79 factors this season, together with seven within the final three video games. McDavid has 94.
“Clearly, they’ve a fantastic staff over there and a few particular gamers. I feel we’re all excited for the problem at the moment,” Celebrini stated. “Simply the best way (McDavid) performs the sport, it’s particular. The way in which skates. Each time he’s on the ice, he makes particular issues occur.
“You don’t want to listen to from me; you simply want to observe him.”
