From: claudius@leland.stanford.edu (Nelson Lu)
Subject: Sharks lose to Oilers 6-4
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 06:46:39 GMT

Apr. 12, 5:00 P. M., at the Northlands Coliseum:

Rookie goalie Wade Flaherty, making his first career NHL start, was very
impressive in stopping 44 shots; unfortunately, he faced 49 shots, and the
Sharks were only able to get 4 goals by Bill Ranford on 22 shots, to just come
up short 6-4.  Flaherty was very spectacular and made all kinds of saves, but
just couldn't do it alone with the Sharks being somewhat rusty, particularly
on defense.  George Kingston, on the pre-game interview, said that he knew that
the Oilers practiced at least twice during the strike, which could have made
the difference.  Flaherty was recalled because the Sharks wanted to leave
Arturs Irbe with the Kansas City Blades, who lead 2-0 in the first round of
the IHL playoffs.

Flaherty got a rude welcome to the NHL in the first period, when the Oilers
peppered 20 shots on him, while the Sharks only had 3.  Flaherty managed to
stop 17, though, and really prevented further damage.  Vincent Damphousse
opened the scoring at 3:24.  Joe Murphy was at the left boards, and fired a
shot that Flaherty stopped, but he couldn't control the rebound, and
Damphousse and Bernie Nicholls were both poking in the slot, with Damphousse
finally getting it home by Flaherty.  Then, at 9:50, Murphy fired a shot right
off a pass from Damphousse from the right boards, with Brian Glynn first
starting the play by holding the puck in.  At 16:05, Martin Gelinas converted
a *2-0* by the Oilers; Flaherty tried to poke the puck away from Gelinas but
couldn't, and Gelinas got the whole net to shoot at.  Craig MacTavish (who
went on the 2-0 with Gelinas) and Kelly Buchberger received the assists.

The Oilers out-shot the Sharks again 15-13 in the second, but the Sharks
scored 3 to the Oilers' 2.  Nicholls first extended the Oiler lead to 4-0 at
7:19, working on the power-play, as he shot right off a pass from Murphy off
a Damphousse face-off win, and got the blistering shot by Flaherty.  The
Sharks then got 3 straight goals, however, to pull within 4-3.  Johan Garpenlov
struck first at 9:26, when Pat Falloon, digging the puck loose at the right
boards, sent the puck back to Brian Lawton, who fed Garpenlov perfectly in the
slot, and Garpenlov sent the puck by Ranford.  At 13:41, Lawton added a
power-play goal, as Falloon again set the play up as he received a pass from
the blue line from Rob Zettler, who just held the puck in, and centered it
right in front to Lawton, who beat Ranford low.  Then, less than a minute
later, at 14:20, Falloon shot the puck right off a face-off win by Lawton,
and got it by Ranford.  However, when Ranford stopped Falloon just a little
later on a very good scoring chance, the Oilers went on a 3-1 with Murphy,
Damphousse, and Nicholls, and Murphy finally sent the puck by Flaherty, at
15:19, to move to 5-3.

The Oilers out-shot the Sharks 15-6 in the third, but there were not as many
scoring opportunities for either side as in the first and second periods.  The
Sharks moved within a goal again at 10:10 on the power-play, when Don Barber
got a pass from Dean Evason on the right boards and sent the puck back to Pat
MacLeod, who drilled a shot that Evason deflected right in front by Ranford.
It was Evason's 100th career goal.  However, the Sharks were not able to get
any closer than that, as they squandered a power-play late in the period, and
right after that penalty expired, Anatoli Semenov scored an empty-netter to
close the scoring, as Norm MacIver stole the puck from a Shark and sent it up
to Craig Simpson, who set up Semenov in the Sharks zone.

Tonight's three stars:

1.	Vincent Damphousse
2.	Joe Murphy
3.	Pat Falloon

(Somehow, I think Flaherty should have been on there...)

Tonight's lines:

Johan Garpenlov		Brian Lawton		Pat Falloon
Don Barber		Mike Sullivan		Brian Mullen
Paul Fenton		Dean Evason		Jeff Odgers
Perry Anderson		Steve Bozek		Perry Berezan

Tonight's defensive pairings:

		Neil Wilkinson		Rob Zettler
		Mike Colman		Pat MacLeod
		David Williams		Jayson More

Jeff Hackett (right knee), Link Gaetz (head injury), and Brian Hayward (back)
are probably all out for the season.  David Bruce (hernia), Kelly Kisio
(shoulder), and Doug Wilson (right knee) are all day-to-day.  Dave Snuggerud
was the lone healthy scratch.

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Kansas City Blades for the Turner Cup!
GO LOS ANGELES KINGS!  Wayne Gretzky for Ross and Hart!
GO SAN JOSE SHARKS!  Pat Falloon 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