Meier Has Goal And Assist, Sharks Top Wild 4-1

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Timo Meier had a extremity and an assistance to support up his beardown start, and the San Jose Sharks bushed the Minnesota Wild 4-1 connected Tuesday night.

Mario Ferraro, Erik Karlsson and Tomas Hertl besides scored for San Jose. Logan Couture and Rudolfs Balcers had 2 assists, and James Reimer made 26 saves arsenic the Sharks won for the 2nd clip successful six games.

“It was a implicit squad win. I thought each enactment gave america thing tonight; I thought each the D that played were excellent, and had bully goaltending,” San Jose manager Bob Boughner said. “We came retired acceptable to play a coagulated roadworthy game.”

Joel Eriksson Ek scored for Minnesota, which mislaid for the 2nd clip successful 7 games. Cam Talbot stopped 17 shots.

Meier, who returned Saturday aft missing 5 games portion successful COVID-19 protocol, has six goals and 8 assists to necktie Couture with a team-high 14 points. Only 2 players successful Sharks’ past person much points done their archetypal 10 games: Owen Nolan 17 successful 1999-00 and Joe Thornton 16 successful 2005-06 and 15 successful 2009-10 and 2010-11.

“The commencement is not bad, but I cognize I tin instrumentality different measurement and marque immoderate better, much accordant plays and adjacent instrumentality the adjacent step. I privation to beryllium the champion subordinate I tin beryllium for the team,” said Meier, who was challenged by his coaches aft past play to beryllium much elaborate passim his game.

“I deliberation he’s yet bought successful that the amended helium plays defensively, the little he’s going to beryllium successful his ain end. He’s been doing immoderate large things successful the violative portion that helium wasn’t doing past year,” Boughner said. “He’s getting to the constituent successful his vocation wherever helium understands the mode helium has to play to person success. This is the champion hockey I’ve seen him play.”

He got the 2nd assistance connected Ferraro’s aboriginal extremity and scored connected a bully idiosyncratic effort with 42.2 seconds near successful the opening play for a 2-0 lead. Meier carried the puck into the close circle, turned extracurricular and sent a walk backmost to Marc-Edouard Vlasic astatine the point. Vlasic’s changeable deed postulation successful beforehand but deflected to Meier who was charging successful from the close broadside for an casual extremity from conscionable beneath the dot.

“We near immoderate guys unfastened and not truly pushing guys up the wall, conscionable looked a small spot sluggish. That squad made plays and played with confidence,” Minnesota’s Marcus Foligno said.

Playing the 4th crippled of a five-game roadworthy trip, San Jose was looking for a amended show aft a 6-2 drubbing Saturday successful Colorado.

“We did a batch of bully things good that we’ve done each year. It was bully to rebound aft a pugnacious game,” Couture said.

After a nifty stick-handle astir Hertl, Eriksson Ek’s changeable from the close ellipse bushed Reimer 5:25 into the 2nd period, but Karlsson’s top-corner changeable 4 minutes aboriginal during 4-on-4 enactment pushed the San Jose pb to 3-1.

Looking for its sixth triumph successful 9 games aft the hostile scores first, Minnesota moved starring extremity scorer Ryan Hartman betwixt Kirill Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello successful the 3rd play to nary avail. Kaprizov had 2 shots connected extremity and has a specified 8 successful his past 4 games. The 2021 Calder Memorial Trophy victor has 3 goals successful 15 games aft scoring 27 successful 55 outings past season.

“He’ll find his way,” Wild manager Dean Evason said. “Yeah, for definite he’s getting peculiar attention. But helium got peculiar attraction past year, too. It didn’t instrumentality precise agelong for the league oregon our part past twelvemonth to cognize however bully helium was, right? They were inactive putting apical defensemen against him and peculiar concentration. So, he’ll combat done it. His enactment ethic is bully capable it’ll travel around.”

NOTES: San Jose D Radim Simek was a steadfast scratch for the archetypal clip this play arsenic the Sharks proceed to look for a accordant 3rd brace of defensemen. D Santeri Hatakka drew backmost in. … Minnesota was 0 for 2 connected the powerfulness play, and is 2 for 16 successful its past six games.

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