By Pearl Allison Lo

ANAHEIM– In the teams’ preseason finale, the Anaheim Ducks remained undefeated, as Anaheim delivered San Jose their second loss of the preseason, 5-1 Saturday.

The Sharks gave up a preseason high in goals, shots on goal and penalties. The Ducks scored a preseason high for goals, two power play goals in the second and then feasted in the third.

Most of the Sharks’ veterans were rested, while all of the recalled San Jose Barracuda players, from Friday played, minus goalie Troy Grosenick.

The Sharks’ Alex Stalock was in net for his second game of the preseason.

Anaheim has dealt both San Jose losses this preseason. Up until the third goal, the scoring went the way it did last meeting, with the Sharks unable to hold their lead.

Both teams received goalie interference calls in the first period, the Ducks’ Chris Stewart 27 seconds in, and San Jose’s Micheal Haley at 4 minutes.

The Sharks’ Matt Nieto blocked two shots not too far apart.

San Jose then received two long penalties. The first one came by way of Raffi Torres at 12:45, a match penalty for a hit to the head of Jakob Silfverberg, which left him down on the ground, before Silfverberg left bleeding. Joonas Donskoi almost had a shorthanded opportunity. The Sharks then went down to 5-on-3 at 16:18, when Haley was called for a major, boarding against Patrick Maroon. Jeremy Langlois, serving the penalty for Torres, almost had a scoring opportunity when out of the box. It became 5-on-3 for about 30 seconds again, with a minute left in the period, when a San Jose player’s stick got broken.

The Sharks outshot Anaheim 14-5.

In the second, San Jose’s Dylan DeMelo struck first at 7:21, a power play goal, aided by Nikolay Goldobin. It was DeMelo’s first goal of the preseason and Goldobin’s second assist. Both players now have three preseason points. That was just the second power play goal the Ducks have let get past them.

The penalties then became too much and Anaheim capitalized on the power play for the first time since their preseason debut.

Corey Perry tied the game at 9:35 on their next power play opportunity. It was his fourth goal, as Perry tipped in Sami Vatanen’s shot. Vatanen got his fourth assist and Cam Fowler his second. Perry also had a power play goal last game against the Sharks. He said, “The biggest thing with us, though, was we weren’t getting too frustrated with all the opportunities we had in the first period. We stuck with our structure.” Regardin the power play, Perry said, “In the past, we’ve had a tendency to get too cute. As soon as I saw a lane to the net, I knew I had to get it there.”

The Ducks scored a second power play goal to go up 2-1 at 15:20. Fowler scored from the left faceoff circle, his first goal, after receiving a horizontal pass by Ryan Getzlaf. Maroon had his second assist.

San Jose outshot Anaheim 15-5.

The Ducks scored three goals in the third period.

Hampus Linholdm scored his first, 2:07 into the third period. He was helped by Stewart.

Josh Manson made it another two goal period when he scored his first at 8:54. Stewart had his second assist of the night and Carl Hagelin had his first assist of the preseason.

New arrival Kevin Bieska scored straightaway from the blue line, at 11:50, with his first. Hagelin also got a second assist.

The Sharks were only outshot 10-8 in the final period, but total shots on goal ended up a lopsided 39-18 in favor of Anaheim.

Game notes: Silfverberg never returned to the game, but Head Coach Bruce Boureau said after, “He’s OK. Thank goodness for that. He was kept out just for precautionary reasons…He could’ve played.” Haley had three of San Jose’s seven penalties. Regarding the penalties, DeMelo said, “…for the most part we were just rolling lines. We just tried to keep shifts short and get out there…” San Jose Head Coach Peter DeBoer said, “…I think our group is excited about the potential. Now we have to translate that into the regular season. The Sharks will open that season against the Los Angeles Kings, Wednesday at 7:30pm.