SAN JOSE SHARKS

Sharks overtake Utah, prevail in OT for first win of season

Oct 29, 2024, 7:11 AM | Updated: 7:32 am

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 22: Mikael Granlund #64 of the San Jose Sharks controls the puck duri...

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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.

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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

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