Wild dominate early, but Sharks rally for 2-1 overtime victory

The Wild are familiar with what a young San Jose company can do Led by budding star forwards Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith the Sharks came into Tuesday night s challenge at Grand Casino Arena In the last two meetings between the teams the Sharks scored a combined goals while going - in St Paul And San Jose entered Tuesday s encounter on a three-game winning streak and averaging goals a championship th in the -team NHL San Jose Sharks goaltender Yaroslav Askarov stops a shot as Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno pressures during the first period of an NHL hockey match Tuesday Nov in St Paul Minn AP Photo Abbie Parr So a - lead midway through the third period no matter how hard-fought was delicate And it broke Smith scored on a third-period power play to knot the competition - and Collin Graf converted on a on during the on overtime to give the Sharks a - preeminence Celebrini had the first assist on both goals The Wild worked hard to hold the Sharks scoreless and to just shots on goal midway through the third period But their lead was precarious - on Matt Boldy s second-period power-play goal It was unlikely that would be enough to win the encounter and everyone in the arena knew it So when defenseman David Jiricek was penalized for slashing the other shoe seemed about to drop and it did The Sharks top line of Tyler Toffoli Celebrini and Smith went tic-tac-toe to knot the match on Smith s one-timer from the right circle with minutes seconds left The Wild dominated the second period outshooting the Sharks - and putting together scoring chances But Minnesota could only convert on goaltender Yaroslav Askarov once on Boldy s one-timer from the right circle off a cross-ice pass from Mats Zuccarello on a man advantage at That made it - and it seemed the Wild would build on that as they kept the pressure on for the rest of the period But the Sharks started putting on pressure of their own Related Articles Hot Marcus Johansson at the center of Wild s - success over Flames Marcus Foligno is Wild s latest injury bug victim Wild fall behind Utah rapidly lose for fourth time in five games After fifth loss in nine games Wild say it s too early to panic Shipley Sports and gambling strange and terrible bedfellows