In San Jose, Evander Kane struck for two goals as the Sharks ended the Tampa Bay Lighting’s win streak at 16 with a 5-2 win.
“We’re a confident group,” Kane said. “We know what type of team we are when we play as a team and we’re rolling. I thought we did a good job for the most part defensively.”
Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski and Lukas Radil also scored for San Jose who improved to 23-13-7.
“I think we recognized the situation,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “We dialed into our game and our attention to detail. It’s nice when you talk about those things as a coach and you get rewarded for it. A lot of nights you talk about it and even when it’s executed, you don’t always get the win. For us to back that up and get a win over a team like that is great, and I think goes a long ways with our group.”
Martin Jones made 17 saves in the win.
“I think every game going forward here is going to be a test for us. It’s going to be up to us to have the consistency to be able to do the work that we did today day in and day out. That’s the hard part in this league; you play so many games and I think that tonight we were extremely excited to play a team like Tampa,” the Sharks’ Erik Karlsson said after the win.
Victor Hedman and Mikhail Sergachev picked up the goals for the Botls.
Tampa “dropped” to 32-8-2.
“Looking back, we still only scored two goals,” Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said. “I felt we deserved a little better fate. We hit the post three times. I know it’s only three games [on the road], but it’s the West Coast and guys can get tired.
“Tonight was just not our night. For 16 or 17 games, it was our night. Give them credit; they skated well. Hitting three posts when you’re on a streak, those probably go in. Tonight, they didn’t. This is still a great group of guys to coach.”
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Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves in the loss.
“Now it’s time to learn from this, turn the page, move on and start a new one,” Tyler Johnson said after the loss.
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