Florida is a great place to vacation and the San Jose Sharks’ offense seems to have taken the opportunity to lay on the sand this weekend.
On Sunday, the Sharks lost, 5-1, to the Florida Panthers. That’s one night after losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning, 7-1.
Maybe the defense took the weekend off too.
“My disappointment tonight is a little like last night,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “I think they score on their first shot or their first couple shots. You’re chasing the game right off the bat. It’s tough on the road to do that. I thought we hung in there and kept fighting, but it wasn’t enough.”
Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves to get the win.
“I felt great there,” Bobrovsky said. “It was great to come back tonight and compete with my teammates. Physically, you feel a little bit fatigued there, but I thought we stood together at the right time. It’s a huge two points for us.”
Kevin Labanc collected the Sharks lone, it came on the power play in the first period.
“We did some good things there. I thought [Bobrovsky] was really good early,” Panthers coach Joel Quenneville  said. “… It looked like he’s very settled into that position there. I thought his composure, he was square to the puck, awareness to the rebounds. He was in control all game long.”
Aleksander Barkov, Keith Yandle and Frank Vatrano collected a goal and two points each in the win.
Mike Matheson and Brett Connolly also scored for the Panthers.
“I thought we played one of our most complete games of the season,” Matheson said. “I think we’re really starting to come together as a team. … Early in the year, we were letting up four, five, six goals sometimes. It’s pretty difficult if you’re giving up that much.”
San Jose dropped to 15-15-2.
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Martin Jones made 28 saves in the loss.
“Their goalie was better, their special teams were better tonight than ours. That was probably the story. I thought 5-on-5 we probably carried a lot of the play,” DeBoer said.
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