In Detroit, Jonathan Bernier made 34 saves and the Red Wings ended their latest losing skid at six games in a 2-0 shutout of the visiting San Jose Sharks.
“It is way more fun to come off that bench after a win than a loss,” Red Wings head coach Jeff Blashill said. “We don’t need to look at the standings to know our situation, but we still have to work to be the best we can and try to win some hockey games.”
Tyler Bertuzzi scored to give the Wings a 1-0 lead in the second period.
“I thought this was a big game overall for us,” Bertuzzi said. “[Bernier] stood on his head and [Glendening] blocked some huge shots. We know we can win games and I think we showed that tonight.”
Filip Hronek potted an empty-net goal with under a minute left on the clock.
“We didn’t get traffic in front of the net and make things hard on their goaltender,” Sharks forward Logan Couture said. “[Jones] was great and we did some nice things on the penalty kill, but we’ve got to be better offensively if we are going to win games.”
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Martin Jones made 21 saves in the loss.
“We still felt good going into the third period because it was only 1-0 and we were doing some good things,” Sharks head coach Bob Boughner said. “We told the guys if we could win the period, we could win the game, and we had some chances. I think we only gave up one shot for a long stretch before the empty-net goal, and that was a dump-in. Bernier deserves a lot of credit for that game.”
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