Joonas Donskoi’s turnaround shot from the left circle at 12 minutes, 18 seconds of overtime gave the San Jose Sharks a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.
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Game 4 on Monday night starts at 8 pm ET. CBC and French-language TVA will broadcast the game in Canada.
The Penguins took a 2-1 lead inside the final minute of the second period on their last of six shots in the period. They were 39-0-0 in those situations in the regular season, and they are 10-2 in the playoffs.
All three games in the Stanley Cup finals have been decided by one goal.
“I’ve passed on a few shots recently that maybe I haven’t earlier”, he said.
The Sharks had to play without injured left winger Tomas Hertl, who was their best player in the first two games.
Pittsburgh’s first goal of the evening – a Ben Lovejoy wrister that snuck past Jones behind Matt Cullen’s screen – came amid of a seven-shot barrage that preceded Sharks’ first official attempt at the net. “It was huge he scored”.
A 3-on-2 usually involves a bit more puck movement down the ice before a shot gets fired off. Don’t tell Ward that, however.
It gave the Sharks their first-ever win in the Stanley Cup Final and cut the Pittsburgh Penguins’ lead to 2-1.
Live streaming for Game 4 is available via NBC Sports Live Extra.
Los Angeles King goalie Jonathan Quick is credited for making the RVH a go-to move as he utilized it en route to two Stanley Cup titles over the last five seasons. They were outshot again by the Penguins, this time 42-26, and still haven’t imposed their will like they did in the three previous rounds.
“I felt pretty good”, Tierney said. We thought we had played well up until (overtime). Down 2-0 in the series and 2-1 in the game, the Pens’ Nick Bonino caught Joe Thornton with a high stick, causing him to bleed the small part of his face not covered by his ample beard, while handing San Jose a four-minute power play.
The Penguins didn’t need much from Murray the first two games when they controlled the play for long stretches. “It’s tight. Like I keep seeing year after year, there’s a small margin of error. If you have a chance to make it work, that’s great”.
It hasn’t been like those players haven’t performed well.
The Sharks’ Justin Braun and Marc-Edouard Vlasic have also had strong postseasons on defense even though neither player is viewed as a superstar. They’re 1-for-6 through three games. “They play so close and so tight”. San Jose is trying to replicate what the Washington Capitals attempted to do against the Penguins in the second round by being overly physical, but Pittsburgh is able to use its speed to get behind the defense and translate it into offense. “But I don’t know if that’s something that we can go to all the time”.
“He plays way beyond his years”, Sharks defenseman Brent Burns said. “It’s a lot easier when you’re playing with a lead”. I’m not sure where the puck was going.
“We’ve talked about it all year”. “That’s one. There’s no time to take a breath, there’s another game here coming up that is just as important”.
Blocked out: Pittsburgh is making the commitment to block shots with reckless abandon.
“We’re creating some chances”, Pavelski said. “It’s just that end result hasn’t been there”. But then as Bonino was just about jump back out, Kris Letang failed to get the puck deep in the man advantage’s waning seconds, and it went back the other way.
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Step two, though, is now finding a way to get more of those shots to actually make it through to goaltender Matt Murray.
