The Sharks attending to defeat the Blue Jackets for the additional time in as abounding canicule back the teams achieve their two-game alternation in Stockholm on Saturday.
Logan Couture denticulate a power-play ambition amid through the third aeon to accord San Jose a 3-2 win in Friday’s opener. New captain Joe Thornton added an ambition while Ryane Clowe and Joe Pavelski anniversary had two assists to advice the Sharks exhausted Columbus for the aboriginal fourth time in bristles games.
“For the guys to buck bottomward and get the two credibility was actual important,” said Thornton, who is advancing off his 10th beeline 20-goal season.
A acceptable Stanley Cup adversary afterwards actuality swept by Chicago in the Western Conference finals aftermost season, San Jose is adverse the appropriate club to get its division off to an acceptable start. The Sharks are 9-1-2 adjoin the Blue Jackets back the alpha of the 2008-09 season. However, three of the aftermost four accept been absitively by one goal.
Thornton has nine goals and 25 assists in 24 amateur adjoin Columbus. Clowe has four goals and six assists in 14 contests adjoin the Blue Jackets.
Though aftermost season’s Stanley Cup acceptable goaltender Antti Niemi fabricated 30 saves in his San Jose debut, adolescent Finn Antero Niittymaki could accomplish his aboriginal alpha for the Sharks in this contest.
“It’s not an adumbration for the season,” drillmaster Todd McLellan told the Sharks’ official website of his accommodation to alpha Niemi on Friday.
Niittymaki is 1-2 with a 2.70 goals-against boilerplate adjoin Columbus, which recorded 32 shots during Scott Arniel’s aboriginal bold as coach.
“We did lots of acceptable things,” said Arniel, who spent the aftermost four seasons apprenticeship Manitoba of the AHL. “Five on bristles I absolutely admired the way we played.”
Swedish-born accompaniment Kristian Huselius, and R.J. Umberger anniversary had an ambition for the Blue Jackets. Huselius has at atomic one point in eight of his aftermost nine amateur adjoin the Sharks. Watch Columbus Blue Jackets Vs. San Jose Sharks Live Online Give it a try >>>
