Pavelski, Tierney lead Sharks to 4-1 win over Jets

No infraction epitomized the game and perhaps the entire Jets’ season more than defenseman Tyler Myers’ cross-check on Sharks center Tommy Wingels at 12:55 of the third period and his team trailing 2-1.

The Jets were unwound by the San Jose Sharks Tuesday night at the MTS Centre falling by a score of 4-1, in the extremely tight Western Conference.

I just don’t think that there’s enough of an investment from everyone to get to where we need to go.

“It’s a penalty. I’m not going to deny that”, Myers said of the incident. “I might argue about the five (minutes), but either way it’s a penalty I shouldn’t have taken”. Another penalty to Mark Stuart for delay of game at 1:50 gave the Sharks a brief two-man advantage, but Connor Hellebuyck stoned Patrick Marleau on a one-timer to keep it a 2-1 score.

Wingels was perplexed why Myers would lose his cool when he was just forechecking and finishing his check, something that happens countless times every game.

“We know we didn’t have our best game the other night”, Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said Tuesday afternoon.

– With files from Judy Owen in Winnipeg for The Canadian Press. Stalock came out to play the puck behind the net and it appeared that Blake Wheeler had stolen the puck off the Sharks netminder and deposited the game-tying goal into the empty net. It was the third straight loss for the Jets who seem to be playing with no sense of urgency and on Wednesday Jets forward Blake Wheeler called out his teammates.

Scheifele missed four games between December 23 and January 2 with a concussion and played in three games after his reactivation.

Ward put in his empty-netter with 54 seconds left in the game.

Are you ready to get up close and personal with a stingray? “It’s a tough call for a ref to make”, Stalock said. “It was a call and we didn’t kill the 5-on-3”.

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The Sharks are 21-18-2 at the halfway point, tied for third place in the Pacific Division with Vancouver. “He’s going to be at least five or six days, maybe a week, before we’re looking at having him back on the ice”.

Head coach Paul Maurice previous year was quick to say the players found a way to get amped up for games, even if he didn’t know how they did it. “We’ve got to get sharper”.

NOTES: NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman watched the game from Jets co-owner Mark Chipman’s box.

“I’ve got enough concerns and refereeing can’t be one of mine, so no comment on all the calls or any of the calls”, Maurice said.