It's back-to-back wins over the Seattle Kraken for the San Jose Sharks. This time, it's not the fun and chaos of the 8-5 win at the Tank in yesterday's matinee, but it is still a four-goal outburst from Team Teal as the Shark's runaway 4-2 winners over the Kraken, and they begin this long road trip with a win. They needed the boost in confidence after how demoralizing the Senators' defeat was, but that feel-good factor is back.
San Jose struck in the first period when the blueline got a rare goal. The puck broke to Mikael Granlund in the slot off the stick of Timothy Liljegren. San Jose would work the puck back to the point for Mario Ferraro, who rifled one home past Joey Daccord. Ferraro gets his second goal of the year: to give the Sharks the lead in this battle of sea creatures.
Early in the second period, the Sharks doubled their lead. As the Sharks killed off a penalty, they led the attack up the ice. Jake Walman got the puck up to Ty Dellandrea, and the Sharks got the forward out of the box to join the rush. That forward was Luke Kunin, who was in the perfect position to receive Dellandrea's drop pass, and Kunin rifled it home through the best efforts of Daccord.
In the second period, San Jose continued the offensive outpour when Walman worked the puck to Macklin Celebrini. As the rookie continued to dominate the league, his shot went wide of the net before taking a friendly bounce off the backboards to Cody Ceci. Ceci netted his first as a Shark, the first of the year, and the first goal on the road in a long time. A beautiful play from Walman made this all possible, and the Sharks enjoyed their fun.
San Jose made it four less than a minute later as Klim Kostin found a way to get the puck to Mikael Granlund on a 2-on-1 rush. Granlund broke into the offensive zone with Will Smith and laid a perfect saucer pass over the defenseman's stick to Smith. Smith fired it home in the top corner of the rush to make it 4-0 San Jose after a picture-perfect pass from the Finnish centerman.
Jaden Schwarts made it 4-1 before the end of the second, and Jared McCann made it 4-2 in the third period. Matty Berniers thought he made it 4-3 with 7 seconds left in the game, but it was ruled out for goaltender interference, and the Sharks enjoy the win, sweep this back-to-back and home-and-home series, and add four points to the standings to end the month of November.