Minnesota Wild vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Sunday, December 10, 2017 · SAP Center at San Jose
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Game summary
The Minnesota Wild beat the San Jose Sharks 4–3 in overtime on Sunday, December 10, 2017 at SAP Center at San Jose. The Sharks outshot the Wild 34–24.
Eric Staal scored twice and Brent Burns scored twice. Ryan Murphy, Tomas Hertl and Nino Niederreiter also scored.
Alex Stalock made 31 saves on 34 shots for the win; Martin Jones stopped 20 of 24.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Ryan Murphy (1)Jason Zucker (11), Eric Staal (14)1–004:19 MIN · 
Eric Staal (11)Ryan Suter (12), Mikael Granlund (12)2–010:27 MIN
2nd period
- Eric Staal (12)Ryan Murphy (1), Mikael Granlund (13)3–004:58 MIN
Brent Burns (3)Joe Thornton (16), Tomas Hertl (11)3–119:07 SJS ·
3rd period
- Brent Burns (4)Joe Pavelski (11)3–202:41 SJS ·
Tomas Hertl (7)Dylan DeMelo (3), Tim Heed (7)3–314:59 SJS
Overtime
Nino Niederreiter (10)Unassisted4–303:26 MIN
Team stats
MINSJS
2434
53%47%
1/32/7
146
2022
2611
812
56
Penalties
- 3:07 into the first period
Melker Karlsson · slashing2 min - 14:09 into the first period
Mikael Granlund · holding2 min - 17:54 into the first periodRyan Murphy · closing hand on puck2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodGustav Olofsson · tripping2 min
- 10:40 into the second periodJason Zucker · high sticking2 min
- 13:16 into the second periodRyan Carpenter · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 16:13 into the second periodDylan DeMelo · high sticking2 min
- 17:14 into the second periodRyan Murphy · hooking2 min
- 17:14 into the second periodEric Staal · holding2 min
- 2:00 into the third periodGustav Olofsson · tripping2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 12Eric StaalC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 6 | 20:09 |
| 64Mikael GranlundC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 19:46 |
| 6Ryan MurphyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 18:19 |
| 16Jason ZuckerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:30 |
| 22Nino NiederreiterR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 15:31 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 29:30 |
| 3Charlie CoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:05 |
| 7Matt CullenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:48 |
| 9Mikko KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:11 |
| 14Joel Eriksson EkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:30 |
| 17Marcus FolignoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:16 |
| 26Daniel WinnikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:18 |
| 59Zack MitchellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:26 |
| 63Tyler EnnisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:33 |
| 23Gustav OlofssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:08 |
| 24Mathew DumbaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 27:09 |
| 25Jonas BrodinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 3 | 24:43 |
| 39Nate ProsserD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:52 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Alex StalockG | W | 34 | 3 | .912 |
| 40Devan DubnykG | 0 | 0 | – |
San Jose Sharks
| 48Tomas HertlC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 22:18 |
| 88Brent BurnsD | 2 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 8 | 28:07 |
| 8Joe PavelskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 25:48 |
| 19Joe ThorntonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 25:51 |
| 72Tim HeedD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 74Dylan DeMeloD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 09:23 |
| 20Marcus SorensenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:15 |
| 28Timo MeierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:36 |
| 36Jannik HansenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:05 |
| 39Logan CoutureC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:40 |
| 40Ryan CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:42 |
| 42Joel WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:32 |
| 50Chris TierneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:14 |
| 62Kevin LabancR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:59 |
| 68Melker KarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:40 |
| 4Brenden DillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 17:44 |
| 44Marc-Edouard VlasicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25:21 |
| 61Justin BraunD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Aaron DellG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Martin JonesG | O | 24 | 4 | .833 |