Sharks, after flawless trip, lose to Chicago in San Jose

We know they have good sticks. It didn’t seem like there was a lot of room out there for us to make plays, and we ended up turning a lot of pucks over.

Patrick Kane’s best run of his career has him sitting atop the league in points while helping provide the Chicago Blackhawks with a formidable second line that also features two newcomers. Ducks right wing Corey Perry has a team-leading 16 points, including seven goals. “We know they’re a fast-starting team at home”. It’s a good start to the game. San Jose fell to 3-6 at home this season after dropping 22 games here last season – their most since 1996-97. We’ve proven on the road where you have to find different ways to win games….

On the positive side, the Sharks’ power play was excellent for much of the night. Chicago scored the only goal of the middle period to take a 3-1 lead into the second intermission.

But they gave themselves nearly no chance with the way they mismanaged the puck against the defending Stanley Cup champions. Left winger Andrew Desjardins pounced on a rebound to score on the backhand at 12:27 for a 4-2 advantage. “I’m not too anxious about it right now”. It New York’s third short-handed tally this season.

“There were a couple bodies, I didn’t really pick it up off the wall”, Jones said.

San Jose didn’t get its first shot on goal until there was 6:52 left in the first, and that was after Chicago had a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal from Brent Seabrook. The Hawks are coming off an impressive win over the Sharks in San Jose on Wednesday night and will look to keep their offense rolling at Patrick Kane and company have been lighting up the scoreboard this season.

“We were sloppy and a little soft in the first period and we paid for it”, coach Peter DeBoer said. DeBoer said Braun played with the injury during the trip and “just wasn’t in a good enough place when we got back here for him to play tonight”. He made a decision to break up Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa from the top line Wednesday, sending Hossa to the third line with Marcus Kruger and Marko Dano. Sharks defenseman Mirco Mueller was alone as partner Matt Tennyson made an ill-advised pinch inside the Blackhawks’ blue line.

“We have to look at everything”, Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said when asked if his team’s scheme needed to be modified in order to generate more offense.

The San Jose Sharks need to start playing all their games on the road. Bought out in the final year of a three season, .3 million deal with the Devils, Zubrus will make a fraction of what he was initially projected to make in a single year with his new deal. The Sharks have won seven straight games on the road, while they lost three out of four on their most recent home stand.