Adam Gaudette and Zack Ostapchuk set a franchise record with goals six seconds apart and Mason Marchment scored the game-winner in the fifth round of the shootout as the San Jose Sharks rallied from an early 3-1 deficit to defeat the Utah Mammoth, 6-5, on Saturday night in Salt Lake City.
Dmitry Orlov scored a goal and had two assists, Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist and rookie defenseman Eric Pohlkamp scored his first NHL goal for San Jose. Yaroslav Askarov made 27 saves for the Sharks.
Zac Jones scored two goals, Kailer Yamamoto had three assists, Mikhail Sergachev scored and added an assist, and Jack McBain and Barrett Hayton also scored for Utah, which lost its fifth straight game. Clayton Keller added two assists and Karel Vejmelka finished with 16 saves for the Mammoth.
Utah took a 1-0 lead at the 2:15 mark of the first period when Jones finished an odd-man rush with a tap-in inside the left post off a Yamamoto crossing pass.
Sergachev made it 2-0 midway through the period with a power-play goal, ripping a wrist shot from the top of the slot past a Hayton screen in front of the crease for his sixth goal.
Toffoli cut the lead to 2-1 with a power-play goal, jamming in the rebound of his own shot inside the left post for his sixth goal.
Sixty-five seconds later, Jones, who had scored four goals in 116 previous NHL games, increased Utah’s lead to 3-1 with a slap shot from 40 feet off a feed from Anders Lee for his first career two-goal game.
San Jose tied it 3-3 early in the second period when Gaudette scored on the power play at 3:07, deflecting a shot from Orlov into the net. Ostapchuk followed six seconds later with a snap shot from the left circle off the ensuing faceoff.
The goals broke the Sharks’ franchise record for the fastest two goals of seven seconds, first set by Larry DePalma and Dave Snuggerud against Buffalo on Nov. 5, 1992, and matched by Radim Simek and Jeffrey Viel on Dec. 28, 2021.
Utah regained the lead 4-3 on a one-timer from the right circle by McBain, but Pohlkamp tied it again at the 5:23 mark of the third period when he drilled a wrist shot from the top of the right circle.
The Sharks took a 5-4 lead with 5:43 remaining when Orlov’s shot from the left point knuckled past the glove of Vejmelka, but Hayton tied it with a power-play goal with 3:38 left, setting the stage for Marchment’s shootout winner on a wrist shot around Vejmelka’s right skate.
–Field Level Media
