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Tyler Bozak scored for the Blues on his 35th
birthday. Brayden Schenn and Vladimir Tarasenko scored in the
shootout to clinch the victory.
Ryan Donato scored and Martin Jones made 33 saves for the
Sharks, who are 0-2-1 in their past three games.
The Blues outshot the Sharks 12-9 in the scoreless first period
and tested Jones with a power-play redirection off David
Perron's skate and a later break-in by Jordan Kyrou.
Sharks winger Kevin Labanc nearly put the Sharks up early in the
second period, but he blasted a shot off the inside of the left
post off the rush.
After the Sharks killed off another Blues power play, they
scored off of their final penalty-kill clear to take a 1-0 lead.
Donato joined the rush, took a drop pass from Marcus Sorensen
and buried an unchecked wrist shot with 4:52 left in the second
period.
That was Donato's first goal in 21 games, dating back to late
January.
Bozak, who was back for his second game after missing 21 games
with a concussion, tied the game 1-1 with a short-handed goal
6:22 into the third period.
Kyle Clifford circled out from behind the net and took a
sharp-angled shot from the right side. Bozak broke to the left
post and the puck banked off his leg into the net.
The Blues lost forward Oskar Sundqvist to a lower-body injury
during the first period when he collided with Clifford.
The Sharks got an overtime power play when the Blues were called
for having too many men on the ice, but they failed to take
advantage and the game went into the shootout.
This was the fourth overtime game between the teams this season,
which each team winning twice. All seven games in the season
series have been decided by one goal.
--Field Level Media
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