San Jose 5, Utah 4
When: 9:00 PM ET, Monday, October 28, 2024
Where: Delta Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Referees:
Tom Chmielewski, Mitch Dunning
Linesmen:
Kyle Flemington, Joe Mahon
Attendance:
11131
By Field Level Media
Alexander Wennberg scored the overtime winner as the San Jose Sharks erased a three-goal third-period deficit to edge the Utah Hockey Club 5-4 on Monday in Salt Lake City.
Fabian Zetterlund scored twice, Mikael Granlund had a goal and two assists and Wennberg and Tyler Toffoli each had a goal and an assist for San Jose, which won for the first time this season (1-7-2). Jake Walman had three assists, and Sharks goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood made 19 saves.
Matias Maccelli scored a pair, and Dylan Guenther and Mikhail Sergachev scored for Utah, which has lost four straight (0-3-1). Vladislav Kolyachonok and Ian Cole each notched two assists, and Connor Ingram stopped 40 shots in the loss.
Wennberg picked up a rebound off the end boards and beat Ingram for his first of the season on a power play at 1:26 of overtime.
San Jose scored three times in the span of 1:50 in the third period to tie it 3-3.
Zetterlund tipped a Granlund shot past Ingram for his second of the night and fifth of the season at 15:28.
Then, at 15:53, Granlund got his point shot through a screened Ingram for his fifth of the season.
Toffoli tied it 3-3 at 17:18, picking up the rebound off Walman's shot and beating Ingram for his fifth.
The Sharks trailed 2-0 before Zetterlund scored at 9:12 of the second period. He powered past two Utah players and tucked the puck in short-side on Ingram.
The hosts responded 1:26 later, as Maccelli picked up the rebound off Cole's point shot and put a backhander past Blackwood for his second of the season.
Sergachev made it 4-1 with 24 seconds remaining in the second, beating a screened Blackwood with a wrist shot from the point for his first of the season.
Utah outshot San Jose 11-9 in the opening period and led 2-0 at the first intermission.
Guenther opened the scoring at 11:00, snapping a shot off the post and in past Blackwood's blocker side for his team-leading sixth of the season.
Maccelli doubled Utah's lead, backhanding the rebound off Nick Schmaltz's shot past Blackwood for his first of the season at 16:24 of the first.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
| San Jose |
|
Utah |
|
Mikael Granlund 3 |
Points |
Matias Maccelli 2 |
|
Fabian Zetterlund 2 |
Goals |
Matias Maccelli 2 |
|
Jake Walman 3 |
Assists |
Ian Cole 2 |
|
Alexander Wennberg 1 |
Power Play Goals |
N/A |
|
N/A |
Short Handed Goals |
N/A |
|
Mackenzie Blackwood .826 |
Save Percentage |
Connor Ingram .891 |
|
Mackenzie Blackwood 19 |
Saves |
Connor Ingram 41 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Shots |
Goals |
Power Play |
Penalty Kill |
Penalty Mins |
Face Offs Won |
| San Jose
|
46 |
5 |
1-4 |
2-2 |
9 |
33 |
| Utah
|
23 |
4 |
0-2 |
3-4 |
13 |
39 |
Upcoming Games
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Utah will play their next game at home against Calgary. The Hockey Club have a W/L % of .600 after a win and .200 after a loss.
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San Jose will play their next game at home against Los Angeles. The Sharks have a W/L % of .000 after a win and .111 after a loss.
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