Mark Stone, Vegas Golden Knights spoil Sharks house opener

The San Jose Sharks have been participating in hockey inside of SAP Centre for the first time in 11 months on Saturday afternoon.

Some of the troubles they had when they were being on the highway for the initial 12 video games of the season adopted them again household.

The Sharks, enjoying their to start with residence game due to the fact March 8, 2020, authorized a few power perform objectives and couldn’t muster substantially of a response in a 3-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.

Tomas Hertl scored for his sixth purpose of the season and goalie Martin Jones produced 23 saves, but Jonathan Marchessault, Mark Stone and Chandler Stephenson all scored with the person edge as the Golden Knights received the first sport of the season concerning the two intensive rivals.

The Sharks went -for-3 on the electric power engage in as they were held to two goals or fewer for the sixth time in 13 online games this period. They are now 2-for-34 with the guy edge in their very last 10 game titles. The Sharks entered Saturday rated 13th in the NHL on the penalty eliminate at 80.8 percent.

Far more troubling for the Sharks was seeinng defenseman Radim Simek go away the sport early with an personal injury in the second period of time and did not return.

As the puck was powering the Sharks’ web, Simek was drilled by Marchessault towards the boards. Shortly immediately after with the puck in the corner to the remaining of Sharks goalie Martin Jones, Simek, however smarting from the initially hit, was cross-checked in the ribs.

Prior to that sequence, Simek had upended Golden Knights ahead Reilly Smith with a check in the Sharks’ corner as the two had been racing to retrieve the puck.

Simek still left the ice below his own energy but experienced to go to the Sharks’ dressing space about two minutes into the second period of time. The Sharks were being down 1- at the time Simek was harm, and trailed 2- when Stone scored a electrical power participate in objective at the 9:56 mark of the 2nd period.

Simek was participating in in his 11th straight video game immediately after he skipped the Sharks’ 1st two video games this season with knee difficulties. His ice time had steadily increased in that time, as he performed a period-significant 19:39 in Thursday’s 6-2 Sharks loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

The Sharks received one of individuals aims again with 1:21 left in the next period, as Hertl just one-timed a pass from Rudolfs Balcers past Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury for his sixth intention of the time.

The unique rivalry among Evander Kane and Ryan Reaves picked up wherever it left off last time. Even however Saturday’s assembly in between the Sharks and Golden Knights was their initially since Dec. 22, 2019, Kane and Reaves have held up a standard banter on their Twitter accounts.