This time reports taylor swifts Marc-Edouard Vlasic taylor jr understand was in front of the net attempting to defend Brule who was positioned in front of Nabokov but Vlasic was mesmerized watching Penner’s centering pass. By failing to tie up Brule’s stick, Vlasic allowed an easy tap-in goal that should never of happened. Fortunately for San Jose, their top guns would get them back in the game by scoring two quick goals of their own, one by Patrick Marleau and the other by Ryane Clowe. But once again, the Sharks got complacent and allowed the Oilers to gain some momentum and Edmonton retook the lead 4-3 with just more than five minutes left.

Both Joe Pavelski and Dan Boyle attacked the puck carrier down low, allowing Potulny to be open in the slot and able to fire a loose puck past Nabokov for his second of the game taylor swifts brother . To San Jose’s credit, they were able to bounce back once again tying up the score at four a piece taylor residential . Marleau’s third goal of the game with under two minutes remaining put the Sharks back in the game taylor road . However, the goal came as San Jose was short-handed thanks to a holding the stick penalty at the 18:20 mark taylor mary .

When the call occurred, the Sharks were down a goal and were now down a skater for the remainder of regulation Simply said, the Sharks had no business winning this game taylor swifts fearless . A lucky bounce allowed Marleau an open net from in close and the all-star forward slammed it home for a short-handed goal and his third career regular season hat trick But we all know the Sharks can score taylor artist . With guys like Thornton, Dany Heatley, Ryane Clowe, Devin Setoguchi to go along with Marleau, San Jose has plenty of offensive weapons taylor sarah . The problem is that team teal has allowed 11 goals in the past two games while allowing an unusually high 74 shots on goal taylor thomas . In particular, the play of the third-defense pairing has been quite poor.

Both Demers and Huskins have been turning the puck over and not picking up the open man in their own zone taylor swifts house . Although not everything can be blamed on those two as Vlasic has seemed to become allergic to defensive zone coverage, being caught watching the puck in back-to-back games leading to goals by the opposition taylor countrywide . Granted, team captain Rob Blake should be back in the lineup soon but the Sharks defense seems to be really thin taylor mt . Despite the impressive play of Derek Joslin in Blake’s absence, the rest of the defense corps seems to be struggling taylor peter . Even though the Sharks are 10th in the league allowing just 2.56 goals per game, they have allowed an average of 29.45 shots per game through Nabokov’s first 24 games compared to an average of just 26.9 shots per game through Nabokov’s first 24 starts last season.

Nabokov’s .921 save percentage so far this season is 11 points higher than his final season percentage from the last two years . Clearly the goal-tending has been played at a much higher clip to start this season taylor richard . Last year Nabokov allowed 60 goals in his first 24 games while facing 646 shots, good for a .907 save percentage taylor family . So far this season, fewer goals have been allowed in his first 24 shots (54) but the team in front of him gives up an average of three more shots per game . Thinking Nabokov can keep up his impressive performance the whole season is asking a lot of the 34-year-old goal-tender. If the Sharks want to make this the year where they finally get over that second round hump and preferably all the way to the Stanley Cup, their defense in front of Nabokov is going to have to get much better. Blake returning to the lineup is not going to be enough as the 20-year vet can no longer hold up on the injury front and has difficulty keeping up with the younger forwards in today’s NHL.