Coming off a dismal road trip, the San Jose sharks made a quick stop on home ice to entertain the Carolina Hurricanes Wednesday night.
The result was five different skaters striking for the Sharks in a 5-1 win over the Canes.
Barclay Goodrow, Tomas Hertl, Joe Pavelski and Marcus Sorensen scored for the Sharks.
Joe Pavelski scored in Sharks win over Carolina – file photo courtesy of Lewis Bleiman
“We’re coming off the road, I was a little worried about our energy the first game back,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “But we got off to a quick start, got that first goal, which was huge. I thought we had some bounces tonight which we haven’t gotten a lot of lately. And [Jones] was great.”
Timo Meier struck once and added two assists in the win.
“It felt great,” Meier said. “You don’t want to be sitting out watching games with an injury. For me it was important to get healthy. I had a lot of energy today and we played a great game overall.”
Martin Jones made 39 saves to get the win.
“I feel good in the net,” Jones said. “I think when we play like that it’s the real Grade-A chances we’ve limited the last couple games. I thought I made some good saves tonight, but there wasn’t too many where I really had to steal any.”
Lucas Wallmark scored the lone Canes goal.
“We’ve played good enough to win and we don’t get any results,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “That’s hard, it’s hard on the guys. It’s been a weird year for this. It was a 5-1 game and you think, ‘Wow, that’s a terrible game.’ I didn’t see it that way. Maybe I’m wrong, I have to look at it again but it certainly didn’t feel like that.”
Carolina dropped to 12-11-4 after losing their third straight game.
“We’ve got to show some resilience as a team to kind of stick with it and get it back to even,” Carolina defenseman Justin Faulk said.
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Curtis McElhinney made 18 saves in taking the loss.
“I feel like we’re pretty much doing everything we can. We’re getting enough opportunities,” Brind’Amour said. “The hard part is we’re going to have to stick together and stick with the game plan because it’s easy to go away when it’s not working at all as far as the results. That’s the tough part that we’re going to have to manage.”
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