When Logan Couture limped off the ice in the middle of a tied game San Jose desperately needed to win, it looked as if he was taking the Sharks’ playoffs hopes with him.
Instead Couture managed to make it back out on the ice to give his team an emotional spark and topped that by scoring the overtime game-winner that got the Sharks back into their second-round series against Los Angeles with a 2-1 victory in Game 3 on Saturday night.
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Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture each scored twice to spoil Cory Schneider’s return to the nets for Vancouver and the San Jose Sharks won their third straight game to open the playoffs, beating the Canucks 5-2 on Sunday night.
Pavelski scored the first two goals and Couture and Patrick Marleau added scores 9 seconds apart to break the game open early in the third period and give the Sharks a 3-0 series lead.
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Wire Report
04/28/13 10:17 PM
The San Jose Sharks dropped their final two regular-season games, both on the road, and they will have to quickly figure out how to remedy that if they are going to advance in the playoffs.
The Sharks, who earned the sixth seed in the Western Conference playoffs, will open their series against third-seeded Vancouver on Wednesday as the NHL unveiled postseason schedules on Sunday.
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Patrick Marleau and Logan Couture each had two goals and an assist as the Sharks won their second in a row to start the abbreviated NHL season, defeating the Oilers 6-3 Tuesday and ruin Edmonton’s home opener.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Dan Boyle also scored and Joe Thornton had three assists for the Sharks (2-0-0).Taylor Hall, Nail Yakupov and Justin Schultz replied for the Oilers (1-1-0).
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