Meier’s Goal, 2 Assists Lead Sharks Past Senators 6-3

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Timo Meier scored the go-ahead extremity with 8:42 remaining and added 2 assists arsenic the San Jose Sharks handed the Ottawa Senators their 3rd consecutive loss, 6-3 connected Wednesday night.

Matt Nieto, Tomas Hertl, Nick Bonino, Logan Couture and Jacob Middleton besides scored for San Jose, which won its 2nd consecutive game. James Reimer made 26 saves to gain his sixth win.

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“I thought it was 1 of those games wherever determination were a batch of momentum shifts,” Sharks manager Bob Boughner said. “I was blessed with the mode we stuck with it. I deliberation it could’ve gone the different mode connected america existent quickly.”

Brady Tkachuk had a extremity and an assistance for the Senators, who besides got goals from Josh Norris and Connor Brown. Matt Murray made 23 saves successful defeat.

“I thought we played a beauteous bully game,” Tkachuk said. “We controlled the play beauteous good I thought the archetypal 40 (minutes) and past we played beauteous good until they got that 1 with 8 minutes near oregon something. So decidedly frustrating, but we’re gonna person to larn from this one.”

Nieto opened the scoring for San Jose with his archetypal of the play conscionable implicit 7 minutes into the archetypal period.

Norris netted the equalizer aboriginal successful the play for his team-high eighth goal.

Hertl’s eighth enactment the Sharks up 2-1 successful the second, but Tkachuk and Brown answered with goals 1:33 isolated to springiness Ottawa its archetypal lead.

Bonino, playing successful his 700th vocation game, tied it connected the powerfulness play with 31 seconds near successful the 2nd period, his archetypal extremity with the Sharks.

“That was 1 of the happiest extremity piles I’ve been in,” Bonino said. “The guys were beauteous blessed for me. It felt similar I could exhale finally.”

With the crippled tied astatine 3, Meier buried his seventh of the play conscionable much than midway done the third.

“(Rudolfs Balcers) made a large walk to maine and I was coming into the slot and conscionable had the defenseman flat-footed determination and got a beauteous bully changeable off,” Meier said.

Couture added an empty-netter with 1:04 left, his seventh extremity of the season. Middleton besides scored an empty-netter successful the last infinitesimal for his archetypal NHL goal.

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“At the extremity of the day, it’s astir winning,” Norris said. “We’ve got to excavation ourselves retired of it and conscionable support playing.”

BACK IN TOWN

Dylan Gambrell returned to San Jose for the archetypal clip since being traded to Ottawa for a seventh-round draught prime connected Oct. 24.

“Mixed emotions, I guess,” Gambrell said earlier the game. “It’s large to beryllium back. I enjoyed my clip here, obviously, and everybody was large to me. It’s large to beryllium back, but astatine the aforesaid time, being connected a antithetic squad now, it’s similar immoderate different crippled erstwhile you get connected the ice.”

Gambrell was minus-1 successful 10:32 connected the ice.

KANE SUSPENSION

Boughner was asked astir LW Evander Kane, who is eligible to instrumentality connected Nov. 30 aft his 21-game suspension for submitting a fake COVID-19 vaccination card.

“There’s been nary update,” Boughner said. “Obviously, there’s gonna person to beryllium present successful the adjacent four, 5 days. But from my standpoint, I deliberation we’re conscionable doing a bully occupation of trying to destruct immoderate distractions and I deliberation Evander’s done a bully occupation of that and fto america absorption connected our squad and what we person present and what we tin control, and we’ll get to that point.”

NOTES: Sharks C Jonathan Dahlen missed his 2nd consecutive crippled with an upper-body injury. He remains day-to-day. … D Brent Burns didn’t person a point, ending a 14-game streak against the Senators dating to 2013. … Senators D Nikita Zaitsev was removed from the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol and was plus-1 successful 15:17 of crystal time. RW Drake Batherson remains connected the protocol list.

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