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By Pearl Allison Lo

Both San Jose and the Washington Capitals went from shutouts in their previous game to two different type of shootouts as Joe Pavelski scored the game winner during one-on-one time in a 6-5 shootout Tuesday.

Each regulation period saw at least three goals

The Sharks looked ready to cruise from the start, replicating their 3-0 win against Winnipeg in just the first period.

Matt Irwin started it off with two straight goals in his first game of the season. Joe Thornton won the faceoff as the puck went back to Irwin at the blue line. Through traffic, Irwin scored at 1:23. The second goal started on the power play with a pass Matt Nieto received from Jason Demers. Nieto shot it up front to Tommy Wingels, who tried to hack the puck past goalie Braden Holtby. Meanwhile, Irwin snuck past two preoccupied defenders and corralled the puck after it got loose at 4:36, two seconds before the man advantage expired.

In his first game with San Jose, John Scott intercepted a pass and hit the net top shelf to make it 3-0 at 9:34. He was aided by Adam Burish and Brent Burns earned his fourth assist.

The Capitals outshot the Sharks 15 to 7 in the second period.

Washington started their scoring nine seconds into the power play. In San Jose’s end, they won the faceoff and seemingly weaved a spell, passing the puck around the area until Alex Ovechkin found Marcus Johansson with open net space in front. John Carlson had the second assist.

San Jose went back up by three with a 2-on-1 and a little help from the Capitals’ Eric Fehr. Carlson slipped before Pavelski fired, new goalie Justin Peters saved the puck and as Fehr tried to get back, the puck went in off Fehr’s skate. Thornton and Justin Braun helped out.

It was then all Washington the rest of the period, as they chipped at the Sharks’ lead.

Mike Green scored from distance at 6:35 to make it 4-2. He was helped by Liam O’Brien and Evgeny Kuznetsov. Captain Ovechkin made it 4-3 at 7:09, assisted by Nicklas Backstrom and Fehr.

1:37 into the third period, San Jose got a goal back. Wingels went off to the side after getting the rebound from his shot up front. Along with Chris Tierney and Tye McGinn, the three all had points for the second time in three games.

On the power play, after missing a shot, Ovechkin got the puck again eventually and made his shot count at 14:09. It was his second goal and fourth overall as linemates Nicklas Backstrom and Carlson got their fourth assists too.

The Capitals got the tie at 15:25 when Troy Brouwer slipped past Irwin, who fell.

Overtime only saw one shot by Washington.

Pavelski scored in the second round of the shootout.

Game notes: Holtby gave up four goals on seven shots. The New Jersey Devils and the New York Islanders are the only other 3-0 teams so far. The Sharks play New York Thursday at 4p.