Meier, Reimer Power Sharks Past Blackhawks 2-0

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CHICAGO (AP) — Timo Meier scored connected a deflection and added an empty-net goal, James Reimer earned his 42nd vocation shutout, and the San Jose Sharks bushed the Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 connected Sunday night.

The Sharks won for the 3rd clip successful 4 starts, each with Reimer successful goal. He was lone occasionally challenged en way to his archetypal shutout successful 22 months, stopping 29 shots.

“Sometimes pucks don’t deed you, similar against Toronto,” Reimer said, referring to Friday’s 4-1 nonaccomplishment to the Maple Leafs. “Sometimes they do.”

Sharks manager Bob Boughner utilized video clips of first-period errors, a uncommon determination for him, to effort to spark his team. It worked.

“It hurts much erstwhile you spot it,” said defenseman Mario Ferraro, whose 7 blocked shots were welcomed by Reimer.

The nonaccomplishment was the 3rd successful 5 games for Chicago, and dropped the Blackhawks to 6-3-0 since Derek King took implicit arsenic caput coach.

“The 2nd period, we benignant of changed the mode we wanted to play and it outgo america a small bit,” King said. “We spent excessively overmuch clip successful our zone. We started forcing plays and they kept the crystal tilted until we decided to spell backmost to the mode we played successful the first.”

Meier was betwixt Chicago goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and a defenseman erstwhile helium tipped the changeable of Rudolfs Balcers past a screened Fleury 13:39 into the 2nd period, giving San Jose the lead. The extremity capped a little flurry of back-and-forth play successful which Chicago defenseman Seth Jones narrowly missed converting connected a 2-on-1 break.

“I was conscionable lasting successful beforehand and it deed me,” Meier said. “I was trying to instrumentality the goalie’s eyes away.”

Aside from Jones’ misfire, the closest the Blackhawks came to scoring was connected a changeable by defenseman Jake McCabe. On the shot, Reimer stretched and gloved it with 27 seconds near successful the mediate period.

Meier added an empty-net extremity with 1:31 to play.

San Jose’s fourth-ranked penalty-killing portion held the Blackhawks to nary shots connected extremity connected their 2 powerfulness plays. Shots went precocious and wide, but not connected net, extending Chicago’s power-play drought to 1 extremity connected 30 chances successful the past 11 games.

“Hopefully we tin get it going again and get that assurance similar we did successful the opening of the season,” Blackhawks prima guardant Patrick Kane said of the powerfulness play. “It was amusive to play similar that.”

Fleury was astir perfect, and got assistance from some McCabe and defenseman Connor Murphy aboriginal successful the second. Fleury kicked distant Alexander Barbanov’s one-timer, aft which Murphy swept distant Barbanov’s worldly effort and McCabe cleared it away. Fleury stopped 20 shots.

NOTES

Suspended San Jose guardant Evander Kane was placed connected waivers connected Sunday. Kane, whose 21-game NHL suspension for submitting a fake vaccination paper ended with Sunday’s game, has since been vaccinated. Dan Milstein, Kane’s caller agent, said Kane would study to the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda if helium clears waivers, portion the Sharks effort to commercialized him. … Chicago guardant Dylan Strome was a steadfast scratch for the 2nd consecutive game. He’d been successful erstwhile manager Jeremy Colliton’s doghouse astatine the commencement of the season, missing the archetypal 4 games and six of the archetypal eight. … It was San Jose’s 2nd shutout of the season. Adin Hill picked up the other, astatine Montreal connected Oct. 19.

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