Andrei Kuzmenko scored a power-play aim 2:58 into extra time and the Calgary Flames got here again to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Tuesday evening.
Kuzmenko put within the puck off a scramble in entrance for the Flames, who had misplaced three straight and eight of 9. Rasmus Andersson and Nazem Kadri additionally scored for Calgary, which transformed two of its three power-play alternatives.
“We’re scoring targets, they usually’re essential targets in these hockey video games,” Kadri mentioned. “As a gaggle, I feel we take delight in making an attempt to present our group a lift of vitality.
“When issues aren’t going too nicely, we’re accountable with each other. I feel that’s essential. If you’re taking part in with confidence, clearly it’s so much smoother.”
William Eklund and Jacob MacDonald had the targets for San Jose.
The last-place Sharks have dropped 4 of 5. San Jose would clinch the worst document within the NHL and have a 25.5 per cent probability of successful the highest choose within the draft lottery if Chicago wins at St. Louis on Wednesday.
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“We simply cheated the sport,” Sharks coach David Quinn mentioned. “I assumed within the second and third, we had been wanting it to be simple. We had been hoping that issues had been going to occur as a substitute of approaching the sport the sincere method and the suitable method.
“I assumed we had been lucky to get into extra time.”
Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf, beginning in opposition to his hometown workforce, made 20 saves. The 22-year-old Gilroy native had household in attendance, together with his grandmother, who acquired to see him play within the NHL for the primary time.
“Coming from a small city, and taking part in in opposition to your hometown workforce, is one thing you clearly dream of, and fairly cool,” Wolf mentioned.
Calgary coach Ryan Huska mentioned the Flames knew it was an essential evening for Wolf.
“I assumed when he needed to make some saves, he did job,” Huska mentioned. “And he regarded calm and composed.”
Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 38 pictures for the Sharks.
Eklund scored on a backhand after a lead go from Fabian Zetterlund to present the Sharks a 1-0 lead after one interval. Eklund, who had a hat trick on Saturday, has factors in 10 of his final 11 dwelling video games.
MacDonald scored early within the second to double the San Jose lead, however Calgary responded with targets by Andersson at even power and Kadri on the ability play to tie the sport going into the third.
Kadri mentioned the Flames had a “below-average first interval.”
“For the following 40 (minutes), we dominated,” he mentioned. “I feel we deserved that one.”
Sharks ahead Filip Zadina missed the sport with a lower-body harm.
Up subsequent
Flames: Go to the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.
Sharks: Go to the Seattle Kraken on Thursday.
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