In San Jose Saturday, Martin Jones made 32 stops in picking up his 20th win of the season, 6-3, over the Detroit Red Wings.
The Sharks’ Joe Pavelski scored two goals and reached 600 NHL career points in so doing.
Joe Pavelski – File Photo by Jack Lima
“It’s a good number, I think,” Pavelski said. “Played with a lot of good players here so far along the way. A lot of hockey left though. It’s something that we just on a nightly basis try to show up and get the puck in and play the game.”
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San Jose also got goals from Joonas Donskoi, Mirco Mueller, Patrick Marleau and Mikkel Boedker as they improved to 24-14-2 on the campaign.
Pavelski scored his 15th goal of the season.
“He’s an incredible player,” San Jose head coach Peter DeBoer said of Pavelski. “Coaching in the [Eastern Conference] prior to this job, I didn’t have a real appreciation for how good he was, or he is. He’s phenomenal.”
The six goals were unique this season for the Sharks as they had not scored more than four goals in a game.
“It’s nice, seeing different guys score and get on the board and get some confidence,” Marleau said. “That’s not going to happen every night, but when it does, it feels good.”
The Red Wings fell to 17-18-5 and are in danger of not making the playoffs for the first time in 26 yerars.
Thomas Vanek, Anthony Mantha and Andreas Athanasiou were the Wings scorers.
“It’s never good enough when you give up six goals,” Detroit’s Frans Nielsen said. “That’s inexcusable. … We played a great game in Los Angeles and can’t follow up. We can’t seem to put two games together.”
The Sharks ended a three-game skid with the win and needed as it everyone else around has been winning of late.
“Everyone else around us is winning games. We wanted to get this back on track. We felt we should have won last game and dropped the ball,” DeBoer said of the urgency.
Jared Coreau got the start in the Detroit net but was given the hook after San Jose’s third goal; he was relieved by Petr Mrazek.
“We were running around trying to follow them rather than playing our own defensive-zone play. They buried a few rebounds,” Athanasiou said of the Detroit loss. “They played good and they scored those quick goals in the third. We weren’t playing smart. We were trying to send the puck into their zone, and it just comes back against us.”
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