From: claudius@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu)
Subject: Sharks lose to Bruins 8-2
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 06:23:45 GMT

Thursday, October 15, 7:30 P. M., at the Cow Palace:

The Sharks were outplayed by the Bruins in all aspects of the game, including
goaltending, special teams, hustling, shooting, defense, et al., as the Bruins
skated to an easy 8-2 victory over the Sharks and goalie Brian Hayward, on
whom they peppered 44 shots, of which Hayward was able to stop only 36.  Andy
Moog stopped 18 of 20 Shark shots for the victory.

The Bruins dominated the skating early on, but Hayward appeared to be solid
and kept the Sharks in the game for a while.  The Bruins out-shot the Sharks
16-6 in the first period, but got "only" a 2-1 lead after the period.  The
Bruins drew first blood at 14:17 on the power-play.  Ray Bourque had unleashed
a hard point shot that Hayward stopped, but the rebound when to Steven Leach,
who tapped the puck over to Diimitri Kvartalnov, who easily poked in the puck
for the goal.  The Bruins padded their advantage to 2-0 at 18:01 on another
power-play goal.  Gordie Roberts made a hard point shot that Hayward stopped,
but Gord Murphy was right in front to poke in the rebound.  However, the Sharks
appeared to rebound a little late in the period, as they scored a power-play
goal of their own at 19:09.  Kelly Kisio had taken control of the puck at the
left boards, and he sent the puck to Brian Lawton behind the net, and Lawton
centered in front, and David Bruce tapped in the puck by Moog.

The Sharks appeared to have gotten back into the game early in the 2nd period.
As he stepped out of the penalty box, Jean-Francois Quintin and Jeff Odgers had
a 2-1, and Odgers made an excellent cross-ice pass to Quintin, who beat Moog
down low to tie the game at 2-2.  However, after that it was all Boston.
Kvartalnov scored his second goal of the game for the eventual game winner,
as Joe Juneau sent the puck from behind the net right in front to Adam Oates,
who spotted Kvartalnov open next to Hayward, and made the perfect pass to him.
Then, Leach scored on the power-play at 15:29 to give the Bruins a 4-2 lead,
and to add insult to injury, Darren Banks, who is more known for fights than
for scoring, scored his first NHL goal at 19:22 to pad the Boston lead to 5-2.
The Bruins out-shot the Sharks 15-5 during the period.

The third period was down right ugly, as Hayward totally lost it.  Roberts
scored at 3:54, Leach scored again on the power-play at 6:29, and Banks (!)
scored his second goal of the game at 14:13 to end the scoring.  All three
goals should have been rather routine stops for Jeff Hackett, but Hayward had
no ability whatsoever to control the rebound.  The Bruins out-shot the Sharks
13-9 in the third.

(I missed the three stars...)

Tonight's lines:

David Bruce		Kelly Kisio		Petri Skriko
Yvon Corriveau		Dean Evason		Jeff Odgers
Jean-Francois Quintin	Brian Lawton		Dave Snuggerud
John Carter		Mike Sullivan		Ed Courtenay

Tonight's defensive combinations:

		Doug Wilson		Doug Zmolek
		Jayson More		Sandis Ozolinsh
		Neil Wilkinson		Rob Zettler

Scratches:	Perry Berezan (fibula), Link Gaetz (auto accident),
	Ray Whitney (foot), Pat Falloon, Dale Craigwell, Johan Garpenlov,
	Mikhail Kravets, Michel Picard, Pat MacLeod

The big story of the night, of course, is that coach George Kingston benched
the top line, consisting of Falloon, Craigwell, and Garpenlov.  He was
apparently angry over their less-than-impressive performance against the
Los Angeles Kings.  Kingston appearently thought that the trio did not put in
good effort, and he had sharp criticism for the line.  I don't agree with him,
but of course I am not a coach.  From my own observation, although the line is
having some problems, it's not from a lack of effort; rather, since the line
was recognized as the Sharks' top line, the checking lines were often sent out
against it, causing the physically small three to make adjustments that they
haven't quite made yet.  The fact that the Sharks were out-shot for the first
time in the season was a testament to the trio's importance to the team.

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"M. C. Hamrlik: Can't Touch This Lightning."
GO LOS ANGELES KINGS!  Wayne Gretzky for Ross and Hart!
GO SAN JOSE SHARKS!  Sandis Ozolinsh for Calder!  Jeff Hackett for Vezina!
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Nelson Lu (claudius@leland.stanford.edu)
rec.sport.hockey contact for the San Jose Sharks