In Dallas Monday night, Kari Lehtonen made 30 saves to help the Stars to a 1-0 win over the San Jose Sharks.
Kari Lehtonen got the shutout over the Sharks Monday night – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Curtis McKenzie scored the game’s lone goal.
“Chances are there, so we’ve just got to bear down and we’ve got to get one dirty or ugly around the net. We’ve got to get one on the power play some way, somehow to take a little pressure off the group because it’s hard to win when you’re only getting one or no goals like we have the last couple of games,” Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said. “Right now we’re cold, but we’re paying a price for that.”
The loss dropped the Sharks to 42-23-7 who remain four points clear of second place chasers, Anaheim Ducks and Edmonton Oilers, in the Pacific Division.
It was San Jose’s third straight loss.
“He (Lehtonen) was ready to go today, maybe because it was I hit him up high in warmups,” Dallas’ Patrick Sharp said. “I was a little worried too. Then he made those first couple saves and I was breathing a little bit easier. What a game for him.”
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Aaron Dell as spectacular in the San Jose net and made 19 saves in the loss.
“The other night we got a lot of quality looks I think, and chances are when you get those looks throughout a night, you’re going to score three and four,” Joe Pavelski said. “Tonight, I don’t think they were as good, probably not as many. I don’t think they had as many. It was a pretty tight game. You look up halfway through the game and shots are 12-9 or something like that, so there wasn’t a whole lot of room out there. In a moment like that, special teams got to take over and generate a little bit more, somebody has got to step up. Had a few looks; we just got to find a way to crack it.” San Jose’s
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