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