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By Pearl Allison Lo

The San Jose Sharks couldn’t figure out the New York Islanders goalie Robin Lehner as the Sharks put up their first zeroes of the season Friday afternoon in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Lehner, who made his debut with the team, became the first franchise goalie to achieve a shutout in that position. This occurred as the visitors put up 33 shots for the third straight game.

Anders Lee, Scott Mayfield, Matt Martin and Casey Cizikas provided the offense as they scored with the man-advantage, even-strength and short-handed, respectively.

The Islanders have scored at least two goals in each game so far this season and Sharks goalie Martin Jones has done the same in giving up at least two goals.

Both teams had a number of power plays opportunities and at least one shot on goal during each. In terms of scoring though, the Sharks went 0-for-4 and New York 1-for-4. San Jose has now accrued penalties in nine straight periods.

The scoring started midway in the second period. With a player up, Anders Lee had two shots on goal one second apart. Later, the same thing happened when Mathew Barzal passed across a stickless Marcus Sorensen to Josh Bailey who shot from one side. With Jones unable to corral the rebound, Lee scooped up the puck on the other side to finally convert. This was Lee’s second goal on the year.

A double blow occurred early in the third when Sorensen took a hard hit from Cal Clutterbuck and Mayfield scored six seconds later. Cizikas grabbed the puck after Sorensen was hit, circled around and passed it to Mayfield. Mayfield then scored through traffic after the puck went off someone in front. It was his first game this season.

Valtteri Filppula had a shot on goal four seconds before Matt Martin made it 3-0 at 13:02. Filppula dumped the puck to Jones before it went to the boards, won the puck back from Erik Karlsson and then passed to Martin who was right in front of Jones.

The last power play came with 2:38 left in the game. Tomas Hertl and Karlsson had a shot on goal, but Cizikas was able to get the puck in their end and shoot into the empty net to seal the game.

Game Notes: The Sharks’ Joe Thornton was placed on injured reserve yesterday for his knee.

Up Next: The Sharks have a quick turnaround when they face the Philadelphia Flyers to finish a back-to-back Tuesday at 4 pm PT.