San Jose Sharks vs Winnipeg Jets on Friday November 7th at SAP Center (via sanjosesharks/x)

By Madison Montez

SAN JOSE–After a faceoff in the San Jose Sharks’s end, the Winnipeg Jets was the first on the board, Josh Morrissey scored his second goal of the season. A minute after Winnipeg scored, Macklin Celebrini scored on a breakaway to even the game at 1-1. With four minutes left in the game, a scramble occured which led to Will Smith’s sixth goal of the season that gave San Jose the eventual win 2-1. Scoring a goal and recording an assist, Celebrini now leads the NHL in points with 23.

Shooting percentages were pretty even throughout the whole game. After the first, shots were 11-8 in favor of Winnipeg. After the second, shots were 10-9 in favor of San Jose. And after the game, the shots were 33-27 with Winnipeg ultimately outshooting San Jose. Although San Jose shot a lot, Winnipeg’s defense was on point having 28 blocked shots. Stick handling was a problem tonight with Winnipeg having 12 turnovers and San Jose having 8.

Coming into tonight’s game, San Jose was 13th on the powerplay and 25th on the penalty kill. They unfortunately couldn’t take advantage of a four minute powerplay in the first period. San Jose went 0/4 while Winnipeg went 0/2, neither team was able to capitalize on their powerplay. For Winnipeg, they were 9th on the powerplay and 4th on the penalty kill.

Both starting goalies were on point tonight, letting in the same amount of goals. Connor Hellebuyck got the start for Winnipeg while Alex Nedeljkovic got the start for San Jose. Hellebuyck’s record now moves to 7-4-0 making 32 saves on 33 shots. Nedeljkovi’s record now moves to 2-3-2 after his 25 saves on 27 shots night.

THREE STARS OF THE GAME:

1. Will Smith 1G
2. Alex Nedeljkovic, .970%
3. Connor Hellebuyck, .926%

The Sharks will be back in action tomorrow against the Florida Panthers. The last time these two teams faced off was on January 25th when Florida visited San Jose and won 7-2. In the loss, Will Smith and Cody Ceci scored, Smith is still with the Sharks while Ceci is with the Los Angeles Kings.