The San Jose Sharks finally got a win for their new head coach, Bob Boughner.
On Saturday night, the Sharks posted three third period goals to give the new bench boss a 4-2 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks. 
“I liked the way we played. We played with some poise,” Boughner said. “Second period we took on too much, but in the third period we responded. Even though they were in our zone a little bit we didn’t have too many breakdowns.”
The win pushed the Sharks to 16-17-2.
Aaron Dell made 33 saves to get the win.
“Deller was our best player,” Boughner said. “That’s what a goalie does in a win like that.”
Jake Virtanen and Bo Horvat scored for the Canucks.
“The whole group didn’t think we had a good first period, but it was obvious we dominated the last two periods,” Canucks coach Travis Green said. “When you play that way and don’t win, you’re not going to be happy by any means.”
Evander Kane and Logan Couture scored empty net goals in the third period for the Sharks. Kane’s goal made it 3-1.
Tomas Hertl and Timo Meier scored for the Sharks.
“It’s a start,” Meier said. “There’s a lot of things we still need to clean up, but it’s a step in the right direction.”
Horvat scored to cut the deficit to one and Couture iced.
“It’s good to get back on track,” said Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic, who played his 1,000th NHL game. “Now some guys are feeling better, we’re feeling better as a team. It’s just one game so we’ve got to string some together.”
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Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves in the loss.
“We were slow in the first period and played well in the second and third,” Virtanen said. “It [stinks] trying to come back. They were good. They came to win.”
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