In San Jose, Logan Couture struck midway through the extra session to give the Sharks a 2-1 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday.
The OT loss extended the Isles point streak to 17 games.
Martin Jones made 27 saves to get the win.
“That’s NHL hockey sometimes,” New York coach Barry Trotz said. “I thought the first five minutes, they came at us pretty hard, and obviously they got some momentum off their power play and all that. I thought we settled in, and the rest of the game I thought we played pretty well. Their penalty kill was real good tonight, the goaltending was good, and it came down to one play.”
The Isles scored 27 seconds after the Sharks had taken a 1-0 lead in the second period. Casey Cizikas got the goal to make it 1-1.
“It was an emotional win in Vegas,” Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said. “Coming back, this is a tough game; some people would call it a ‘trap game.’ But we’re playing the hottest team in the League, so I thought that got us engaged right off the bat. [Jones] made some big saves when he needed to.”
Marcus Sorensen scored for the Sharks.
“I’m real proud of our effort,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “We could’ve been smarter and not taken as many penalties. But we found a way, and [that’s] been kind of the story lately. We’ve been dealing with some injuries, and some depth issues. We didn’t help ourselves by getting in the box, but we still found a way and I thought it was a pretty gutsy effort.”
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Semyon Varlamov made 24 saves in the loss.
“We didn’t really give them much,” Cizikas said. “A lot of their chances were getting point shots that got through, and they were just trying to get on the rebound. I thought our defense did a great job. We had opportunities, but we just couldn’t cash them in on this case.”
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