Balcers in the fourth game in a row without points in the first loss of “Sharks”

Latvian striker Rūdolfs Balcers started the game tonight in the second shift with this season’s usual partners, namely Czech Tomas Hertl and 19-year-old Swedish talent William Eklund, spending 15 minutes and 36 seconds on the court, including a minute and 25 seconds less, and making two shots. gates, as well as using the same force techniques.

Sharks had started the season brilliantly, reaching a maximum of eight points in the tournament table in four games, while Bruins had won two games in three games, the second against Zemgus Girgenson’s Buffalo Sabers.

The first period was spent in an exciting fight at both ends of the field, but Boston was better able to realize the scoring moments. It scored its first goal already in the 28th second, when after an excellent play the goal in the ninth Bruins star Brad Marshan. In the 4th minute, the defender Dereks Forborts, sending the puck to the goalkeeper between the armpits, doubled the advantage of “Bruins” (0: 2). In the 17th minute, the teams exchanged goal goals – hitting the puck in the upper corner of the goal, Davids Pastrņāks reached the majority 3: 0, but then Sharks player Jessper Vetherby came up in a quick counterattack (1: 3).

In the second period, Boston controlled the game, regaining a safe three-goal goal in the 26th minute – Jane Debrusks scored a quick counterattack over Adina Hill’s shoulder puck (1: 4). After that sharks changed the goalkeeper – James Reimer replaced Hill. Rūdolfs Balcers, the striker of the Latvian national team, did not take a very good chance to score a goal in the minority, when in the penultimate minute of the period, “Sharks” ran in a counter-attack two against one defender. In this episode, the Swedish goalkeeper Linus Ulmarks, who was leading the goal, proved to be superior.

In the final third of the game, San Jose was able to receive and start showing his game. In the 54th and 56th minutes, the Sharks strikers Tomāss Hertls and Timo Meiers scored 3: 4. The Sharks failed to run out of water, so they experienced their first loss of the season. The next game in San Jose will be played at home on Tuesday night, matching forces with Nashville’s Predators.