Niemi Makes 25 Saves, Sharks Beat Coyotes
Antti Niemi made 25 saves, and Logan Couture scored twice in the San Jose Sharks' 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.
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Antti Niemi made 25 saves, and Logan Couture scored twice in the San Jose Sharks' 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.
Dustin Brown scored two power-play goals and connected again in the fifth round of the shootout, giving the Los Angeles Kings a 4-3 win over San Jose on Thursday night.
Patrick Marleau and Torrey Mitchell each scored twice and the San Jose Sharks defeated the Calgary Flames 6-3 on Wednesday night.
San Jose Sharks rookie Logan Couture said the lower-body injury that knocked him out of a recent game is not as serious as he originally feared.
Joe Pavelski had two goals and an assist Saturday and the Sharks beat the St. Louis Blues 5-3 on a night they might have lost one of their top scorers.
Patrick Marleau got a fortunate bounce on his tiebreaking, power-play goal early in the third period and the San Jose Sharks went on to beat the Minnesota Wild.
Ryane Clowe scored the tiebreaker in the opening two minutes of the final period, Torrey Mitchell added an insurance goal 1:40 later, and the San Jose Sharks rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 6-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday night.
Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton and Logan Couture scored for the Sharks, who lost in regulation for just the fourth time in their last 25 games.
Brandon Dubinsky scored the winning goal in the sixth round of a shootout, lifting the Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night after others teams jostling for playoff positioning lost.
Cory Schneider made 44 saves and stopped all three San Jose attempts in the shootout and Alexandre Burrows scored in the second round of the tiebreaker in the Vancouver Canucks' wild 5-4 victory over the Sharks on Thursday night.
Patrick Marleau scored on a breakaway goal with 1:36 left in overtime, lifting the San Jose Sharks past the struggling Nashville Predators 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Dany Heatley scored twice and Antti Niemi made 26 saves to lead the San Jose Sharks to their eighth straight victory, 3-1 over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.
Antti Niemi was perfect in the shootout just hours after getting a contract extension, and Ryane Clowe scored the only goal of the tiebreaker to give the surging San Jose Sharks a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.
The San Jose Sharks rewarded goaltender Antti Niemi for helping lead the team's recent rise in the standings by giving him a $15.2 million, four-year contract extension on Tuesday.
