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Patrick Marleau scored the lone goal for the
Sharks, whose four-game winning streak ended. San Jose goalie
Martin Jones made 29 saves.
Henrique opened up scoring at 5:55 of the first period with a
short-sided shot that hopped Jones' shoulder. The Sharks made a
push late in the period, but Gibson stymied their best attempts
as Anaheim took the one-goal lead into the first intermission.
There were some fireworks with 6:09 left in the first frame when
Anaheim's Sam Carrick tripped over Jones on a goal attempt and
San Jose's Jeffrey Viel squared off with Carrick in an effort to
defend his team's netminder. Carrick left the fisticuffs with
bloody cuts on his face but returned to the game later after
getting patched up.
Anaheim also got a boost at the end of the first period when San
Jose forward Kevin Labanc went to the penalty box for holding
the stick. With just a little over a minute left on the power
play to start the second stanza, Comtois scored to increase the
Ducks' lead 2-0 just 24 seconds into the period.
San Jose got a power-play opportunity on the following shift,
and Marleau beat Gibson with a wrist shot to cut the deficit to
2-1 at the 1:29 mark.
Lundestrom responded with a wrist-shot goal at 2:44, giving
Anaheim a 3-1 lead. After both teams were quiet for most of the
rest of the period, Deslauriers' rebound of a Troy Terry shot
upended Jones and added to make it a three-goal margin at 15:19.
Sharks head coach Bob Boughner chose to pull Jones for an extra
skater with under eight minutes to play in the third period, and
the Ducks capitalized as Backes scored an empty-net goal at
12:47 to make it 5-1.
--Field Level Media
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