After a dud against the Ducks that put a skid to their four-game winning streak, the Sharks were eager to put that in the rearview and get to work against the LA Kings, who they found great success against thus far this season who were in town for another two-game set. The Kings get to quick work when Alex Iafallo puts a feed to the front of the next into the back of the net for the early 1-0 Kings lead. The sharks can quickly rectify that, putting in the next three goals before the end of the first period. With strikes by LeBanc, Marleau, and Balcers, the Sharks found themselves the beneficiaries of a 3-1 advantage heading into the second period. In the second period, there's not much happening for either side, except for maybe Jeffery Viel answering a bell in a mismatched fight against Curtis MacDermid, when it should have been Brendan Lemieux in there for his play along the boards. The Kings finally solve the Martin Jones puzzle again to start the third, in a bad angle shot, that's tipped in from in front of the net, 3-2 Sharks. The Sharks tie a ribbon on it with a short-handed goal by Dylan Gambrell and then an empty-netter by Hertl to seal the 5-2 victory. Marcus Sorensen features a new skill set to his game with two separate fights with Andreas Athanasiou
The trade deadline isn't until Monday afternoon, but it didn't stop the Sharks from trading goaltender Devan Dubnyk to the Colorado Avalanche for defenseman Greg Pateryn and 2021 fifth-round pick. A good move for San Jose, in my opinion, since Dubnyk hadn't been playing much with the Sharks riding Martin Jones' hot hand. Come game time, and the Sharks looked to sweep the Kings for the third time this season in the second game of the series Saturday night, April 10th. The two teams go back and forth defensively for the first half of the period before Jeff Carter puts one in from behind Martin Jones for the 1-0 Kings score. Five minutes later, the Sharks strike back when Dylan Gambrel cleans up a John Leonard deflected shot to tie the game 1-1. Kings dominate the second period scoring the next three unanswered goals, including a Dustin Brown powerplay goal as time expires in the period. To start the third, Sharks trying to ignite a spark, replace goaltender Martin Jones with Josef Korenar, who is making his NHL debut. Sharks munster up a powerplay goal of their halfway through the third by Timo Meier, but the Kings' lead proves to be too costly to overcome, and the Sharks fall 4-2.
Hot to get back to their winning ways they've become accustomed to as of late, the Sharks welcome the pacific basement-dwelling Anaheim Ducks into the Shark Tank for two games. Right off the bat, San Jose looks sluggish, with no legs under them, failing to clear pucks, defensive inadequacies. The Sharks put forth a real lackluster effort, giving up three goals in the first period, and are ultimately shutout 4-0 by a Ducks rookie netminder, Anthony Stolarz, who has 46 saves.
While I am sure the Sharks came into the second game against Anaheim in the series to put forth a much better effort than what we saw in the previous game, the Sharks again have no answer to solve the puzzle knows as rookie goaltender Anthony Stolarz. While Stolarz did not have the 46 save effort in this game as he did previously, he still shut out the Sharks until 2:20 left in regulation when the Sharks finally managed to get a puck past Stolarz on an Erik Karlsson slapshot, but too little too late, sharks cough up another one to the lowly Anaheim Ducks, 4-1. My positive takeaways from the game are Dylan Gambrel hanging in there in a tilt with heavyweight Josh Manson. Something I would like to see more out of players up and down the line up beside the usual suspects.
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