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The loss could be especially painful for the
Sharks since captain Logan Couture exited the game in the second
period with a left leg injury. He needed helped getting off the
ice after getting checked into the end boards by Blues
defenseman Vince Dunn.
Tyler Bozak, Ivan Barbashev and David Perron scored for the
Blues, who snapped a three-game winless streak.
Timo Meier and Erik Karlsson scored for the Sharks and Aaron
Dell made 24 saves.
The Blues outshot the Sharks 10-5 in the scoreless first period
and applied late pressure without breaking through.
San Jose reversed the game's momentum early in the second
period, forcing Binnington to stop Couture and Kevin Labanc on
point-blank shots.
Then Bozak scored the game's first goal off the rush 5:39 into
the second period. He took a drop pass from Alexander Steen, cut
to his right toward the slot and beat Dell with a snap shot.
Barbashev made it 2-0 just 80 seconds later. After Dell thwarted
his breakaway bid, Barbashev looped back toward the net to
convert Oskar Sundqvist's pass from the left corner.
The Sharks cut the lead to 2-1 on Meier's power-play goal 2:14
into the third period. He scored from the right circle from
Karlsson's feed from the blue line.
Meier has four goals and three assists in his past six games.
Perron pushed the Blues lead back to 3-1 by scoring off a
face-off win by Ryan O'Reilly. Perron has six goals and eight
assists in his last 10 games.
A potential fourth Blues goal, scored by Jordan Kyrou off the
rush, was negated when San Jose's challenge proved he was
offside.
The Sharks cut the lead to 3-2 with a shorthanded goal when
O'Reilly accidentally poked the puck into his own net after
Karlsson tried to bank it into the net off the back of
Binnington's skates.
--Field Level Media
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