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Meier Has Goal And Assist, Sharks Top Wild 4-1 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Timo Meier had an objective and a help to keep up his solid beginning, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Minnesota Wild 4-1 on Tuesday night. 

Mario Ferraro, Erik Karlsson and Tomas Hertl likewise scored for San Jose. Logan Couture and Rudolfs Balcers had two helps, and James Reimer made 26 recoveries as the Sharks won for the second time in six games. 토토사이트

"It was a finished group win. I thought each line gave us something this evening; I thought all the D that played were amazing, and had great goaltending," San Jose mentor Bob Boughner said. "We came out prepared to play a strong street game." 

Joel Eriksson Ek scored for Minnesota, which lost for the second time in seven games. Cam Talbot halted 17 shots. 

Meier, who returned Saturday subsequent to missing five games while in COVID-19 convention, has six objectives and eight helps to attach Couture with a group high 14 focuses. Just two players in Sharks' set of experiences have more focuses through their initial 10 games: Owen Nolan 17 out of 1999-00 and Joe Thornton 16 out of 2005-06 and 15 of every 2009-10 and 2010-11. 

"The beginning isn't terrible, yet I realize I can make another stride and improve a few, more predictable plays and even make the following stride. I need to be the best player I can be for the group," said Meier, who was tested by his mentors after last season to be more point by point all through his game. 

"I believe he's at last purchased in that the better he plays protectively, the less he will be in his own end. He's been doing some incredible things in the hostile zone that he wasn't doing last year," Boughner said. "He's cutting to the chase in his vocation where he comprehends the manner in which he needs to play to have achievement. This is the best hockey I've seen him play." 

He got the second help on Ferraro's initial objective and scored on a decent individual exertion with 42.2 seconds left in the initial time frame for a 2-0 lead. Meier conveyed the puck into the right circle, turned outside and sent a pass back to Marc-Edouard Vlasic at the point. Vlasic's shot hit traffic in front however diverted to Meier who was charging in from the right side for a simple objective from just underneath the speck. 

"We left a few people open and not actually pushing folks up the divider, just looked somewhat drowsy. That group made plays and played with certainty," Minnesota's Marcus Foligno said. 

Playing the fourth round of a five-game excursion, San Jose was searching for a superior presentation after a 6-2 drubbing Saturday in Colorado. 

"We did a ton of beneficial things well that we've done every year. It was great to bounce back after an intense game," Couture said. 

After a clever stick-handle around Hertl, Eriksson Ek's shot from the right circle beat Reimer 5:25 into the subsequent period, however Karlsson's top-corner shot 4 minutes after the fact during 4-on-4 activity pushed the San Jose lead to 3-1. 

Searching for its 6th dominate in nine matches after the rival scores first, Minnesota moved driving objective scorer Ryan Hartman between Kirill Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello in the third time frame without much of any result. Kaprizov had two shots on objective and has a simple eight in his beyond four games. The 2021 Calder Memorial Trophy champ has three objectives in 15 games subsequent to scoring 27 out of 55 trips last season. 

"He'll track down his direction," Wild mentor Dean Evason said. "Definitely, without a doubt he's standing out enough to be noticed. Yet, he stood out enough to be noticed last year, as well. It didn't take extremely yearn for the association or our division last year to know how great he was, isn't that so? They were all the while setting top defensemen against him and exceptional fixation. Thus, he'll battle through it. His hard working attitude is sufficient it'll come around." 

NOTES: San Jose D Radim Simek was a solid scratch interestingly this season as the Sharks keep on searching for a predictable third pair of defensemen. D Santeri Hatakka stepped back in. … Minnesota was 0 for 2 on the strategic maneuver, and is 2 for 16 in its beyond six games.