The San Jose Sharks skated as well as they could with the Edmonton Oilers but lost their eighth straight game 4-2 on Friday night.
Edmonton lost Mattias Ekholm and Zach Hyman to injuries during the game. Evan Bouchard, Ty Emberson, Connor Brown and Corey Perry scored for the Oilers, and Connor McDavid had four assists. Calvin Pickard made 22 saves.
Will Smith scored his fifth goal in the last five games, and Henry Thrun scored for the Sharks. Jan Rutta returned from a 27-game injury absence, and Georgi Romanov made 30 saves.
San Jose’s penalty troubles failed them once again as they gave up two power-play goals and took five penalties overall.
Bouchard gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 6:47 of the first period.
Bouch be bombin’ đź’Ł #LetsGoOilerspic.twitter.com/iiG04zVOmy
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) April 12, 2025
Emberson made it a 2-0 lead with a goal against his former team at 15:41.
Edmonton goal!
Scored by Ty Emberson with 04:19 remaining in the 1st period.
Assisted by Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard.
Edmonton: 2
San Jose: 0#SJSvsEDM#LetsGoOilers#TheFutureIsTealpic.twitter.com/j21g8Rue1A— NHL Goals (@nhl_goal_bot) April 12, 2025
Smith cuts the lead in half with a wrist-shot through Pickard at 17:13.
Beautiful, beautiful play. đź‘Ś pic.twitter.com/tQESNCzz7J
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) April 12, 2025
Thrun throws a puck to the front, and the puck deflects off Darnell Nurse and into the net at 5:42 of the second period to make it 2-2.
Put it to the net and good things happen. đź‘Ź#TheFutureIsTealpic.twitter.com/sZ309MEwJd
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) April 12, 2025
Perry’s power-play goal at 7:32 of the third period gave the Oilers a 3-2 lead.
17 for Scorey 🪱 #LetsGoOilerspic.twitter.com/GzeX7df2Tx
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) April 12, 2025
Brown added an empty net goal with 25.5 seconds left to close it out.
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