San Jose Sharks Lose First Road Game of the Season in a Shootout to the Dallas Stars

There are reasons for optimism coming off of this game, but it is another defeat in the extra frame in the first game of the season for the San Jose Sharks. Going toe-to-toe with this Dallas roster that is expected to make

We'd get our first goal in the second period. Tyler Toffoli would be the one to break the ice in this one. Forcing a turnover at his blueline, Toffoli took the puck and led the team up the ice on a 2-on-1. He elects to use his deadly shot to pick the far corner on Jake Oettinger. Ringing it past the netminder, Toffoli nets his second of the season and forces the Dallas Stars to trail for the first time this season.

Dallas would get it back at the midway mark of the game. Mason Marchment can grab the puck to the left of Mackenzie Blackwood and find a passing seam to the back post for Matt Duchene, who was all alone. The great feeling after the Toffoli goal was now gone, and the Sharks needed to find another one to see if they were going to get their first win of the season in this one.

San Jose would retake the lead via the kid coming home to Dallas. Ty Dellandrea enters the neutral zone and throws the puck forward to Nico Sturm, who has a breakaway. His shot misses the net, but it bounces off the boards behind the net and out in front to Dellandrea, who pots the rebound. Haunting the Stars, the former Dallas draft pick nets his first of the season, his first as a Shark, and restores the Sharks lead.

As it turns out, Dallas doesn't like losing and will tie it up again soon after. Working the puck into the middle of the ice, Dallas is able to move it from Miro Heiskanen to Wyatt Johnston and eventually to Roope Hintz, who wires the puck home past Mackenzie Blackwood. The netminder could do nothing with that one, and we're tied again at 2.

We couldn't solve anything in the third period or overtime, so we went to the shootout. Jason Robertson scored first for Dallas, as Oettinger made the save on Will Smith. Matt Duchene scored, but Mikael Granlund evened it all up. Unfortunately, Wyatt Johnston would score the Stars' third attempt on Blackwood who doesn't make a save in the shootout as the Sharks fall to 0-2-1 in another disappointing game for the Team in Teal.