Going into the game against the New Jersey Devils Friday night, it was clear the San Jose Sharks would need to play almost perfectly to secure a second win in as many nights. The Devils have won 6 games in a row going in, and the Sharks had only just won their first game less than 24 hours earlier against the New York Rangers in what was a fireworks show of a hockey game. In what has been the Sharks’ strategy with rookies on back-to-back nights to ease them into the NHL, the team sat Michael M...
The road trip will not get easier for the San Jose Sharks, as the team heads to New Jersey for the second half of the back-to-backs. The Sharks will face the red hot New Jersey Devils tonight, a team that’s 6-1-0 for the season. New Jersey is at the top of the Metropolitan Division and hasn’t lost since the first game of the season, a 6-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. Since then, the Devils have rolled through the Lightning, Blue Jackets, Panthers, Oilers, Maple Leafs and Wild, outscoring t...
It was a struggle to get there and it wasn’t a pretty path, but the San Jose Sharks can finally say the team has a win this season. It took overtime and a Herculean effort by both Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith, but the most important thing is that even when the team lost its lead late in the third period, the Sharks battled back to win and beat the New York Rangers 6-5 in overtime. Better yet, the Sharks put six goals past Igor Shesterkin, who, going into the night, had not allowed more tha...