Advertisement

Updated February 28th, 2020 at 14:17 IST

Couture scores in OT as Sharks top Devils 3-2

 Logan Couture scored 38 seconds into overtime, lifting the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 comeback win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night that snapped a five-game skid.

Couture scores in OT as Sharks top Devils 3-2
| Image:self

 Logan Couture scored 38 seconds into overtime, lifting the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 comeback win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night that snapped a five-game skid.

Rookie Mario Ferraro and Marcus Sorensen each scored in regulation for San Jose. Martin Jones made 22 saves.

Travis Zajac and Nikita Gusev each had a goal for the Devils, who were seeking their season-high fourth straight win but blew a 2-0 lead in the second period. Cory Schneider stopped 27 shots.

Couture scored the winner off a pass from Evander Kane, who found the Sharks captain wide open on the left side of the net for his 15th goal. Couture was playing his first home game and just second game overall since missing seven weeks with a broken bone in his left ankle.

Zajac was credited with the game’s first score and his seventh on an own goal midway through the first period. Zajac poked the puck past Jones and defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic inadvertently swept the puck into the goal on his backswing while trying to clear it.

Zajac poked the puck past Jones and defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic inadvertently swept the puck into the goal on his backswing while trying to clear it.

The Devils capitalized on a Sharks turnover to take a 2-0 lead with just under five minutes left in the first when Gusev took the puck away from defenseman Jacob Middleton deep in the Sharks zone and broke free for a breakaway goal.

The Sharks cut the lead in half early in the second when Ferraro scored his second goal on a wrist shot from the blue line.

They tied it on Sorensen’s short-handed goal – his seventh - at 15:58 of the second.

“We wanted to play a certain way and we had success for 20 (minutes), and then for some reason we take that lead 2-0 and you think maybe it’s going to be easy and obviously in this league there’s nothing easy. They came out (in the second period), they played their style of game and we just never responded. We never got back to our game,” Devils interim coach Alain Nasreddine said.

“That’s a team we knew that they play north-south, and for us the minute we started going east-west and trying to get a little cute and trying to make plays in traffic, they went the other way and they made us defend for 40 minutes.”

Advertisement

Published February 28th, 2020 at 14:17 IST

Your Voice. Now Direct.

Send us your views, we’ll publish them. This section is moderated.

Advertisement
Advertisement

Trending Quicks

Jailed Gangster Mukhtar Ansari Passes Away
16 minutes ago
Mukhtar Ansari Death
26 minutes ago
Chamkila
28 minutes ago
Lorry Crushes Car-Cleaner To Death In Telangana
33 minutes ago
Major League Cricket
34 minutes ago
Abhay Deol
35 minutes ago
delhi cm arvind kejriwal
37 minutes ago
MEA Responds To China’s Comment On Sikh Separatist Gurupatwant Singh Pannun
39 minutes ago
Riyan Parag
41 minutes ago
David Warner
42 minutes ago
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Whatsapp logo