Pittsburgh Penguins right wing Rickard Rakell (67) reaches for the puck against the San Jose Sharks defenseman Michael Kesselering (7) and goaltender Yaroslav Askarov (30) at SAP Center in San Jose on Wed Nov 11, 2026 (AP News photo)

San Jose Sharks game wrap:

By Lincoln Juarez

SAN JOSE, Calif. – For the second straight game the San Jose Sharks rallied from behind to force a game to overtime and eventually a shootout, Wednesday night however, they were on the wrong end of a 3-2 final score.

Despite out-shooting the Penguins through two periods, the Sharks trailed by two goals with just over 16 and a half minutes remaining in the third. Pittsburgh’s Samuel Girard opened the scoring at 8:57 of the first period on a one-timer from the high slot that beat Yaroslav Askarov. At 3:28 of the third period Askarov was beaten again by Ben Kindel on the powerplay for his fourth goal of the season.

Much like Monday night Askarov kept San Jose in the game, turning aside 33 of 35 shots. In the opposite crease, Sergei Murashov was perfect until 11:32 of the third period when the Sharks finally got on the board. Macklin Celebrini ripped a shot off of Murashov and into the back of the net becoming the fifth-youngest player in NHL history to reach 200 career points. “I mean that doesn’t really happen without the guys in this room, the guys that I play with and all the plays that they make and all the work that they put in,” said the 20 year-old in true captain fashion.

That wasn’t the only milestone recorded Wednesday night as Celebrini picked up his second point of the game with a laser assist to Mason Marchment on the doorstep who tapped in his 100th career NHL goal. “It’s special, my son was here today. I got to score for him. It’s pretty awesome for me, especially when I was younger never thinking I was going to play to get 100 goals in the National League, it’s pretty special.”

With the game even at two, the regulation period came to an end giving San Jose a point in their second straight tilt, however they weren’t able to pick up the extra point going scoreless in three rounds of the shootout. The Penguins dominated possession in overtime and the Sharks failed to score on their fifth powerplay of the night after Kris Letang was sent to the box for holding Sam Dickinson’s stick. San Jose went scoreless on all five of their powerplay opportunities.

Ben Kindel had the game-winner in the shootout and Celebrini, Stenberg and Smith were all snubbed by Murashov. After already hitting three goal posts, Stenberg shot second in the shootout also despite not making an appearance until the eighth round of Monday’s skills competition where he won the game for team teal. Head coach Ryan Warsofsky’s confidence has been building in the 19 year-old, second-overall draft pick saying, “He’s playing really well. Got the puck on his stick, doesn’t panic with it, he’s playing really good hockey.”

For the Sharks as a whole, they look to rebound in the first game of back-to-backs Saturday night in Salt Lake City against the Utah Mammoth before hitting the ice back home at SAP Center Sunday night against the Nashville Predators.