Igor Chernyshov scored his first NHL purpose, Macklin Celebrini had a purpose and an help and the visiting San Jose Sharks lastly beat Vancouver Canucks goaltender Thatcher Demko in a 6-3 victory on Saturday evening.
Chernyshov and William Eklund recorded a purpose and an help. Ryan Reaves, John Klingberg and Collin Graf had markers for San Jose, which snapped a three-game skid.
Celebrini’s outing stretched the 19-year-old North Vancouver native’s level streak to seven video games (5 targets, 9 assists). Goaltender Yaroslav Askarov stopped 24 photographs.
Linus Karlsson, Marco Rossi and Drew O’Connor scored for the Canucks, who misplaced at residence to the Sharks for the primary time since 2019. Conor Garland and Filip Hronek had two assists apiece.
Ahead Elias Pettersson returned to the lineup and skated in his five hundredth profession recreation. Demko made 31 saves however misplaced for the primary time to San Jose in 14 profession choices.
Within the first interval, Demko made a sprawling save whereas on his again. The puck got here to relaxation a couple of inches from the purpose line, and Reaves burst in head-first and poked it in at 6:11.
The guests’ nice begin continued when Celebrini gained a faceoff that went again to Klingberg. The defenseman then hammered residence a purpose low on Demko’s glove facet to double the benefit simply 1:44 after Reaves’ tally.
Vancouver used its particular groups to get again in it after the Sharks’ Vincent Iorio went off for crosschecking at 8:31. Karlsson chipped in a pointy cross from Conor Garland at 10:04.
Within the second, Eklund obtained a bit of a puck and despatched it barely up within the air within the low slot. Dealing with Demko, Rossi inadvertently clipped the puck and despatched it over his netminder. The own-goal was credited to Eklund, his ninth.
Rossi trimmed it to 3-2 simply 36 seconds into the third with a shot that Askarov batted together with his blocker, but the puck bounced in to tighten the match.
Throughout an influence play, Chernyshov restored the two-goal cushion by hitting the online for the primary time at 4:47, however O’Connor ripped a short-handed purpose at 10:43 to make it 4-3.
Celebrini put the victory to mattress by rocketing his twentieth purpose on a one-timer with 3:40 left. Graff then tallied into the empty web at 3:05.
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