Nov 17, 2009 9:04 pm US/Pacific
2 Power Play Goals Lift Predators Over Sharks
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBS 5 / AP) ―
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Goaltender Thomas Greiss of the San Jose Sharks.
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Joel Ward and David Legwand each had a goal and two assists, and the Nashville Predators beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 Tuesday night for their third straight win and seventh in nine games.
Jerred Smithson had a goal and Ryan Suter had two assists for Nashville, which was was coming off a 2-0 win over Montreal in which the Predators fired off a franchise-record 55 shots. Putting the puck in the net was no problem against Sharks backup goalie Thomas Greiss, playing his fourth game this season.
Joe Thornton had a goal and an assist, Scott Nichol had a short-handed goal and Patrick Marleau had a goal for San Jose, which lost in regulation for the first time since Oct. 22.
The Western Conference-leading Sharks were 9-0-3 since, including a victory at home over Nashville last Tuesday in which they got the winning goal with a minute left in regulation.
The Predators kept this game from being that close by starting the night shooting just as they did against Montreal, and they outshot San Jose 14-9 in the first period. Sullivan scored his fifth 28 seconds into a 5-on-3 advantage in the first period.
Nichol scored his first of the season against his former team to tie at 1 apiece at 14:23.
But Smithson's wrister with 3:54 left in the first put Nashville up to stay.
The Predators padded the lead with two more in the second. Ward tipped in Suter's shot at the blue line at 8:16 with the man advantage, and Ward passed from the boards to Legwand who fired off a one-timer from the left circle to make it 4-1 at 10:57.
Thornton came off the bench and scored his sixth this season from the left circle off a pass from Frazer McLaren with 41 seconds left in the second.
Marleau tipped in a pass from Thornton with 51 seconds left in regulation.
NOTES: The Predators now have scored a power-play goal for the eighth time in 11 games. ... Nashville improved to 8-0-0 when scoring on the power-play and 7-1-0 when scoring first. ... Nashville defenseman Kevin Klein played in his 100th career NHL game.
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