SAN JOSE SHARKS NOTES:
LAST GAME
Game 70 – 3/18 – SJS 1 vs NYI 4…Kevin Labanc (1g, 0a) netted his 12th goal of the season, his second in the last three games. Assists on the strike went to Nico Sturm (0g, 1a) and Logan Couture (0g, 1a), the latter finishing the four-game home stand with six points (2g, 4a). Sturm led all skaters with 16 faceoff wins (16-for-22) and Erik Karlsson paced all skaters with a game-high 25:05 time on ice.
SJ Goals: Labanc (12)
SF: 30
SA: 33
SJ PP: 0/2
SJ PK: 4/5
W: Sorokin
L: Kahkonen
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
3/19 Recalled F Andrew Agozzino from the San Jose Barracuda
3/19 Assigned F William Eklund to the San Jose Barracuda
3/18 Recalled F Martin Kaut from the San Jose Barracuda
3/16 Assigned D Shakir Mukhamadullin to the San Jose Barracuda
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT: EDMONTON OILERS
Winners of four of their past five and seven of their past 10, the Edmonton Oilers begin a three-game Pacific Division home stand Monday against the San Jose Sharks, followed by a Wednesday clash with the Arizona Coyotes and Saturday duel with the Vegas Golden Knights. Evander Kane recorded a hat trick Saturday for Edmonton, the sixth of his career, to help the club earn a 6-4 win over Seattle. The Oilers are powered by Connor McDavid, who leads the league offensively with 134 points, 58 goals and 76 assists. He is the lone skater in the NHL with more even strength points than the Sharks’ Erik Karlsson.
March 20, 6:30 p.m. PT
SAN JOSE SHARKS AT EDMONTON OILERS
19-37-14 (52 pts), 8th Pacific 2022-23 RECORD/STANDING 39-23-8 (86 pts), 3rd Pacific
0-3-2 LAST 5 GAMES 4-1-0
0-1-0 SEASON SERIES 1-0-0
61-47-12-12 ALL-TIME RECORD AGAINST OPPONENT 59-53-12-8
2022-23 PLAYER STATS
Logan Couture and Erik Karlsson (70) GAMES PLAYED LEADER 6 players (70)
Timo Meier (31) GOALS LEADER Connor McDavid (58)
Erik Karlsson (65) ASSISTS LEADER Connor McDavid (76)
Erik Karlsson (85) POINTS LEADER Connor McDavid (134)
DEFENSE TO OFFENSE…The San Jose Sharks defensive corps was held without a point in the team’s opening game of the season but have since gone pointless as a unit in just nine of the last 69 games. Nikolai Knyzhov netted his first goal of the year on Tuesday, his first point since returning to the lineup, and Derrick Pouliot notched his first points with the Sharks, two assists, against Columbus as well. Jacob MacDonald netted his first goal as a Shark on Feb. 28, the lone tally for San Jose against Montreal. Three different Sharks defensemen (Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Erik Karlsson and Matt Benning) found the scoresheet in San Jose’s win against Pittsburgh on Jan. 28, with their five combined points in the contest standing as the tied-fourth-most by Sharks defensemen in a game this season (behind six-point games on Nov 17 vs DET, Dec. 9 at ANA and Dec. 22 vs MIN). Entering March, Sharks defensemen led the league in assists and points. Their assist and poi
PRIME PENALTY KILL…After going 4-for-5 shorthanded against Seattle on March 16, the Sharks boast the NHL’s sixth-best penalty kill, at 82.4-percent on the year. The Sharks have finished top-two in the NHL on the PK in two of the past three years, including second (85.2%) in 2021-22 and first (85.7%) in 2019-20.
EDMONTON OILERS NOTES:
ALL-TIME RECORDS vs. SAN JOSE GP RECORD HOME (66) AWAY (66) GF GA
OILERS ALL-TIME vs. SAN JOSE 132 59-53-12-8 32-24-7-3 27-29-5-5 398 401
OILERS vs. SAN JOSE – 2022-23 1 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 7 1
QUICK FACTS
Monday’s game will mark Edmonton’s second of four games against the Sharks this season and the first of two games in Edmonton. The next time these teams will meet is April 8th in San Jose.
The last time these teams met was on January 13th in San Jose, with the Oilers winning 7-1.
Connor McDavid leads the Oilers with 33 career points against the Sharks and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has played in a team high 36 career games against San Jose.
POWER PLAY PROWESS
The Oilers have the top three power play point getters in the NHL, with McDavid (61), Draisaitl (52) and Nugent-Hopkins (44) ranking first, second and third respectively. Connor McDavid’s 61 power play points on the year, give him the Oilers single season record for most PPP’s in a season, a record previously held by Wayne Gretzky (57 – 1981-82). Leon Draisaitl scored his league leading 27th power play goal of the season on Mar. 11 at TOR to pass his own franchise record for most PPG’s in one season, a mark he set in 2021-22. Draisaitl’s 27 power play goals are the most by any player since 2005-06, when Ilya Kovalchuk posted 27 with the Atlanta Thrashers. Only one other active player has scored 26+ PPG’s in a single season – Chris Kreider (26 in ’21-22 w/NYR).
GONE STREAKING
Leon Draisaitl posted his 7th career regular season hat-trick on on Mar. 4 at WPG. He has points in 17 of his last 18 games and accumulated 28 points (15G, 13A) in that span, including seven multi-point efforts. He has now recorded eight separate point streaks of 10+ games in his career.
EARNING POINTS
The Oilers are 11-5-4 in their last 20 games, outscoring opponents 87-73, while earning at least a point in 16 of the 20 games.
GOALS BY PERIOD
The Oilers rank 1st in the NHL in goals for in the second period with 110. They also rank 1st in the NHL in first period goals with 76 goals
LAST 10 GAMES vs. SAN JOSE
Record: 6-4-0
GF: 37 GA: 30
2022-23 1/13/23 @ SJS 7-1 W
2021-22 4/28/22 @ EDM 5-4 W (OT)
2021-22 4/5/22 @ SJS 2-1 W (OT)
2021-22 3/24/22 @ EDM 5-2 W
2021-22 2/14/22 @ SJS 3-0 W
2019-20 2/6/20 @ EDM 6-3 L
2019-20 11/19/19 @ SJS 5-2 W
2019-20 11/12/19 @ SJS 3-6 L
2018-19 4/4/19 @ EDM 2-3 L
2018-19 2/9/19 @ EDM 2-5 L
OILERS IN MARCH
Overall – 590 GP, 289-221-39-40 – 659 PTS
2022-23 – 9 GP, 7-2-0 – 14 PTS
2021-22 – 15 GP, 9-4-2 – 18 PTS
