The San Jose Sharks played their most complete game of the season on Wednesday as six players each scored a goal and goalie Yaroslav Askarov had another impressive start in net in a 6-1 romp over the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena.
Macklin Celebrini had a goal and two assists, and Will Smith, John Klingberg, and Tyler Toffoli each had a goal and an assist as the Sharks won for the fifth time in eight games and handed the Kraken its first regulation-time loss at home this season.
Ethan Cardwell and Ty Delladrea also scored for the Sharks. Dellandrea’s goal – his first of the season – came shorthanded at the 3:24 mark of the third period, giving San Jose a 5-1 lead. Toffoli’s goal, his fifth of the season, came just 30 seconds later as the Sharks earned their most lopsided win of the year.
The Sharks (5-6-3) also earned a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Oct. 30, but their three other victories this season came in overtime.
Askarov made 36 saves in San Jose’s 3-2 overtime win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday. Against the Kraken, Askarov had 14 saves in the first two periods and 14 in the third as the Sharks improved to 3-3-0 on the road this season.
A lot of that success on the road has to do with the production from Celebrini.
With his three-point effort on Thursday, Celebrini now has a league-leading 15 points in six road games, and with 21 points this season, is tied for the NHL lead in scoring with Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers, marking the first time in NHL history a teenager is the scoring leader (tied or outright) at this stage of a season (217 games played league-wide).
Celebrini scored his eighth goal of the season just 1:08 into the first period, then assisted on Klingberg’s power play goal at the 11:21 mark of the second period.
The Sharks had a 2-1 lead after the first period on goals by Celebrini and Cardwell, with Cardwell’s go-ahead goal coming at the 18:42 mark.
The Kraken turned the puck over at the Sharks’ blue line, and rookie defenseman Sam Dickinson poked the loose puck ahead to Jeff Skinner. Skinner then skated through the neutral zone and found Wennberg, who calmly stickhandled the puck for a moment, slowed down, and found Cardwell for a one-timer that beat Seattle goalie Joey Daccord.
The goal was the second of Cardwell’s NHL career, with his first coming on Nov. 29, 2024, in San Jose against the Kraken.
Celebrini’s goal, assisted by Toffoli and Klingberg, gave him at the time a league-high 13 points in six road games of this season. That’s a Sharks team record, and, per NBC Sports, was the second most by any teenager in NHL history. Sidney Crosby had 14 points in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first six road games of the 2006-27 season.
MISA OUT
Rookie center Michael Misa was slated to play his eighth NHL game Wednesday but sustained a lower-body injury during the Sharks’ morning skate at Climate Pledge Arena and had to be scratched. It was not immediately clear how much more time Misa will have to miss.
With Misa unavailable and no other healthy forwards on the active roster, the Sharks dressed 11 forwards and seven defensemen. William Eklund was on the Sharks’ active roster but did not make the trip and remains unavailable with a lower-body injury.
