San Jose 5, Minnesota 2
When: 10:30 PM ET, Thursday, December 22, 2022
Where: SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose, California
Referees:
Ghislain Hebert, Jordan Samuels-Thomas
Linesmen:
Kiel Murchison, Travis Toomey
Attendance:
13128
By Field Level Media
Erik Karlsson had a goal and three assists and James Reimer made 24 saves to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.
It was the third four-point game of the season for Karlsson, who leads all NHL defensemen with 46 points.
Timo Meier had a goal and an assist and Noah Gregor, Oskar Lindblom and Kevin Labanc also scored goals for San Jose, which snapped a three-game losing streak with just its fourth regulation win in 19 home games this season.
Joel Eriksson Ek and Mats Zuccarello scored goals for Minnesota, which had its season-best, six-game winning streak snapped. Filip Gustavsson stopped 20 of 24 shots while having a personal six-game winning streak come to an end.
Karlsson needed just 44 seconds to give San Jose a 1-0 lead with his 13th goal of the season. He extended his personal point streak to nine games when he slapped in a Jaycob Megna pass into an open net.
Minnesota tied it at the 2:20 mark of the opening period on a breakaway goal by Eriksson Ek, his 12th tally of the season.
San Jose regained the lead later in the period when Gregor backhanded a rebound of a Karlsson shot into an open net for his second goal of the season.
The Sharks then took advantage of a five-minute major on Wild forward Mason Shaw for kneeing Evgeny Svechnikov along the boards midway through the second period. San Jose extended its lead to 3-1 as Meier scored his 18th goal of the season on a slap shot through traffic from the top of the left circle.
Lindblom then made it 4-1 just as the penalty expired when he tapped in a backdoor rebound of a Karlsson shot for his second goal of the season.
The Wild cut it to 4-2 with just six seconds left in the middle period. Zuccarello fired a wrist shot from the left circle off a Kirill Kaprizov feed over Reimer's shoulder for his 15th goal of the season.
Labanc sealed the win with a power-play empty-netter with 13.5 seconds remaining, his eighth goal of the season.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
| Minnesota |
|
San Jose |
|
Joel Eriksson Ek 1 |
Points |
Erik Karlsson 4 |
|
Joel Eriksson Ek 1 |
Goals |
Erik Karlsson 1 |
|
Matt Boldy 1 |
Assists |
Erik Karlsson 3 |
|
N/A |
Power Play Goals |
Timo Meier 1 |
|
N/A |
Short Handed Goals |
N/A |
|
Filip Gustavsson .833 |
Save Percentage |
James Reimer .923 |
|
Filip Gustavsson 20 |
Saves |
James Reimer 24 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Shots |
Goals |
Power Play |
Penalty Kill |
Penalty Mins |
Face Offs Won |
| Minnesota
|
26 |
2 |
0-4 |
4-6 |
28 |
28 |
| San Jose
|
25 |
5 |
2-6 |
4-4 |
13 |
29 |
Upcoming Games
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San Jose will play their next game on the road against Vancouver. The Sharks have a W/L % of .300 after a win and .320 after a loss.
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Minnesota will play their next game on the road against Winnipeg. The Wild have a W/L % of .600 after a win and .538 after a loss.
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