Blues’ Saad haunts San Jose as road trip ends with thud
The Sharks might be glad they don’t have to see Brandon Saad and the St. Louis Blues again for another few months.
The Sharks allowed two goals to Saad and another to Robert Thomas in a 4-1 loss to the Blues at Enterprise Center on Thursday in the fifth and final game of San Jose’s 10-day road trip. Jonathan Dahlen scored an even-strength goal at the 8:16 mark of the second period to cut the Blues’ lead to 2-1. But St. Louis got that goal back just 2:01 later, as Saad took a pass from Oskar Sundqvist on a Blues rush and tapped it past Sharks goalie James Reimer to restore his team’s two-goal lead.
Saad’s first goal came at the 10:25 mark of the opening period, and he now has four goals in two games against San Jose this season.
He also had two goals in the Nov. 4 meeting between the two teams at SAP Center.
The Sharks’ next game with St. Louis is April 21 in San Jose.
Reimer, in his third start in the last four games, made 32 saves in the first two periods to keep his team in the game. But the Sharks couldn’t mount much of a comeback in the third period as they finished the road trip with a 2-3-0 record.
Reimer finished with 44 saves.
Logan Couture thought he scored his seventh of the season at the 7:21 mark of the first period for a 1-0 Sharks lead.
But after a challenge by the Blues, it was determined that Dahlen was offside.
Timo Meier assisted on Dahlen’s goal and now has points in 10 of his 11 games this season.
The Sharks have Friday off and will open a four-game homestand on Saturday against Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals.
Reimer, in his third start in the last four games, made 32 saves in the first two periods to keep his team in the game.
But the Sharks couldn’t mount much of a comeback in the third period as they finished the road trip with a 2-3-0 record.
Reimer finished with 44 saves.
Logan Couture thought he scored his seventh of the season at the 7:21 mark of the first period for a 1-0 Sharks lead. But after a challenge by the Blues, it was determined that Dahlen was offside.
Timo Meier assisted on Dahlen’s goal and now has points in 10 of his 11 games this season.
The Sharks have Friday off and will open a four-game homestand on Saturday against Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals.
“His team has had a rough past couple of games,” Middleton told the Sharks’ Audio Network between the first and second periods. “I wasn’t expecting anything that early, but he was pretty hot and heavy to start that first period and I had to oblige. I knew what he was doing.
“It’s kind of ethic thing. You let him have that one. It was good, though.” NOTE » Forward Lane Pederson missed his third straight game Thursday after he was hurt in the Nov. 11 game with the Winnipeg Jets. Boughner initially said that Pederson could miss up to two weeks with the lower-body injury that happened when he was hit by Jets defenseman Logan Stanley.