After losing to Anaheim Friday, San Jose bounces back with
overtime win
SAN JOSE
Dan Boyle’s first goal as a San Jose Shark came 1:25 into overtime as the hosts rallied past the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 at a sold out HP Pavilion Saturday.
Boyle one-timed a feed from Joe Thornton inside the right post from 10 feet out as San Jose won its first overtime test of the year.
San Jose recovered from a pair of two-goal deficits to improve to 5-1 for the season, holding onto the top spot in the Western Conference with 10 points. The Sharks and Flyers have a second meeting Wednesday in Philadelphia to begin a three-game roadtrip.
“It was nice to see (Boyle) rewarded,” said San Jose coach Todd McLellan.
“He’s logged a lot of minutes the last two nights and this shows he has the stamina to do that. He’s a very smart, intelligent player.”
The Sharks were able to bounce back from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits, pulling even at 3-3 when Joe Pavelski scored off a rebound of his own shot at 5:43 of the third period.
Jonathan Cheechoo earned his second point of the game when he fed Pavelski in the open ice at the red line. Pavelski’s lofted shot from outside the blueline was kicked back by goalie Antero Niittymaki. Pavelski jetted between retreating defensemen Kimmo Timonen and Braydon Coburn to reach the puck and jab home the rebound.
Daniel Briere responded with his second goal of the night when he raced behind defenseman Alexei Semenov and deposited the puck just inside the right post under the left leg of goalie Evgeni Nabokov at 11:11 for the 4-3 Flyers lead.
Devin Setoguchi scored his third goal of the campaign at 15:16 to tie it at 4-4. Setoguchi’s rush to the net came just as Jeremy Roenick’s shot from the left flank bounded off the goalie and into the slot for the put-back by the young forward.
Briere, who netted 31 goals last season in his first year with Philadelphia, opened the scoring when he turned a hard Mike Knuble blueline shot that bounded off the endboards into a point-blank goal at the right post 14:51 into the first period.
Flyer defenseman Braydon Coburn scored his first goal of the season when his lofted backhander from the slot skimmed over Nabokov for a 2-0 lead 31 seconds into the second period.
Christian Ehrhoff opened the Sharks scoring at 1:54 of the second when he whipped a hard shot from the blueline inside the right post with assists from Ryane Clowe and Mike Grier.
The Flyers took a 3-1 lead when Jeff Carter blasted a hard shot past Nabokov from the right circle for a short-handed goal at the 6:48 mark.
San Jose finished the second period down 3-2 due to a Cheechoo redirection goal at 18:20 on a power play. Marc-Edouard Vlasic’s high shot from the blueline tipped off Cheechoo’s lifted stick and inside the left post.
