In San Jose, the Sharks have quietly managed a very successful season thus far.
On Thursday, the Sharks’ Aaron Dell made 17 saves for the Sharks as they improved to
Aaron Dell picked up the win for the Sharks – file photo by L:ewis Bleiman
38-18-7 with a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
Marcus Sorensen, Logan Couture and Mikkel Boedker scored for the Sharks.
“We’re deep. That’s all you ask for going into the end of the year and a playoff run. You need a lot of guys to step up, and you never know what’s going to happen going forward. Injuries happen in this game, unfortunately. There are times in different games where we need different ingredients, and I think with the group of guys that we have here, the 23-25 guys that we have, we’re looking pretty good,” Couture said of the Sharks’ lineup now.
It was San Jose’s third straight win.
“We’re stringing games together,” San Jose’s Brenden Dillon said. “I think in the past couple seasons, these games that we should be taking advantage of and should be winning, maybe we’re taking our foot off the gas or not necessarily getting the job done. But we’re finding ways. For us, we’re understanding the importance of every point, and I think we saw with home ice how important that was last year in the playoffs. Just going down the stretch here, we want to take advantage if we can.”
Bo Horvat was the lone Canucks goal scorer.
“Our start was pretty good, but our second and third weren’t good enough. The second period we just came out flat,” Horvat said.
After a 1-1 tie in the first period, the Sharks struck twice in the third to take the air out of the Canucks’ efforts.
“Second period, we were terrible and that cost us the game,” Canucks defenseman Christopher Tanev said. “We didn’t battle hard enough. We were in our end the whole second period.”
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Ryan Miller made 29 saves in the loss as the Canucks dropped to 26-30-7.
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