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Some Sharks players might have been able to use an afternoon of fun to get their minds off some recent troubles on the ice.

But the people who really looked forward to Sunday’s floor hockey event at Bellarmine College Prep were the Special Olympians.

For the second straight year, Special Olympic athletes from San Jose and Palo Alto got a chance to play floor hockey with several Sharks players, including Joe Pavelski, Mikkel Boedker, Joel Ward and Brenden Dillon.

as the event started with player introductions out of an inflatable Sharks head. The national anthem was played and Sharks broadcasters Randy Hahn and Dan Rusanowsky did play-by-play with light-hearted color commentary.,The Sharks wanted to make it as close to a game-day experience as they could for the Special Olympians

and Rusanowsky and Hahn did interviews with an athlete at both the first and second intermissions.,Sharks coach Pete DeBoer was the referee for the game

“Those are the things that matter, which the Sharks and Special Olympics Northern California hope to continue on an annual basis.,” Boedker said of the event

“You could just see their smiles get bigger and for us to go and just be a part of that, the fun things that happened.”, it makes you smile and laugh and it’s something you talk about the next day

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with Toby Hauptman scoring the winning goal to give Team White a 5-4 win.,It was also competitive. The game went to a shootout

Diane Cunningham played for Team Black knows how good her boyfriend, is at floor hockey. That’s why there was a puck battle between the two in one corner of the floor., Louis Manson of Team White

Manson wasn’t messing around, and put a body-check on Cunningham that knocked her down., though

Joonas Donskoi scored two goals, albeit in a shootout., the power play came to life and Brent Burns finally found the back of the net

But the Sharks (10-8-1) offensive struggles continued, as the Anaheim Ducks (10-7-3) spoiled their third period charge by winning in the ninth round of the shootout., despite a whopping 42 shots on goal

1. Joe Pavelski denies that the Sharks have scoring issues.

” he said before adding: “I believe it’s going to come.”,“The losses are unacceptable — no doubt

What is holding the captain’s faith together as the team struggles to score night after night?

With Melker Karlsson on the shelf,Authentic Nicklas Backstrom jersey, reigniting the chemistry they developed during the Sharks run to the Stanley Cup Final. Throw Tomas Hertl into the mix and the Sharks have unearthed a line combination with a legitimate one-two-three punch., Joonas Donskoi made his return to Logan Couture’s right wing

more creativity offensively. And he made some great looks.”,“Him and Melker are similar in the fact that they both get in on the forecheck and they’re tenacious on the puck, referring to Donskoi. “I think Donny’s got — I don’t say this to take anything away from Melker — a little more puck skills,Authentic Philipp Grubauer jersey,” Couture said

One of those looks came at 3:31 of the first period when Donskoi got the Sharks on the board. He started the play by stripping the puck from Dennis Rasmussen near the blue line, he beat Reto Berra with a nifty move through the five hole.,adidas Wayne Simmonds jersey, and after Couture got it back over to him

he set up Hertl with a quality-scoring chance in the high slot.,In the second, and in the third,adidas Michael Hutchinson jersey, he used his stickhandling skills to draw a hooking penalty

Donskoi surpassed his 2016-17 goal total in the third, his seventh tally of the year., scoring the game-tying goal on the power play

” head coach Pete DeBoer said. “Nice to have him back in town.”,“Great to have him back. We missed him last year

3. The power play wakes up after DeBoer reshuffles the deck.

recording their first power play goal in 24 tries.,With two new units, they snapped a six-game scoreless drought with the man advantage,Authentic Wayne Simmonds jersey, the Sharks produced their most dangerous two-minute power play in three weeks when they generated five shots on goal in the second period. In the third

For a second-consecutive game, the Sharks split the Fab Four into two groups, Hertl, sending out one unit with Couture, Donskoi, Thornton, Mikkel Boedker, Danny O’Regan and Brent Burns and another with Pavelski, Tim Heed and Kevin Labanc.

Couture said the shake up changed the Sharks mindset with the extra man.

“It’s just mentality and getting back to working harder, and I think the power play got to a point where it definitely needed it.”,” he said. “Sometimes you need change

setting up Donskoi’s goal off a rebound by using his shiftiness to create a shot on goal.,O’Regan,adidas Nicklas Backstrom jersey, got the nod with the first unit in the third, who was playing in just his fifth NHL game

Pavelski believes the power play, will eventually start to produce. He also thinks the puck will start to go in if the team continues to generate a high volume of shots., which has been ranked in the NHL’s bottom third over the last 101 games

The Sharks currently rank eighth in shots per game (33.5), fourth in shot attempts percentage (52.6 percent) and 30th in shooting percentage (5.5 percent). In addition, Brent Burns, who leads all defensemen in shots on goal, is 0-for-82 on the season. The puck will start to bounce his way eventually.

” Pavelski said.,“If we can keep putting up 39 shots…I like our chances

2. The Sharks find their top line.

over 300 athletes will take part in the floor regional championships at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.,Special Olympics Northern California features 27 teams and over 500 players in its floor hockey program. On Dec. 2

President and CEO of Special Olympics Northern California. “They love this event and you can see the anticipation when the Sharks players are coming out.”,adidas Philipp Grubauer jersey,“This is a great lead-up for us,” said David Solo, and it’s just a pleasure to have the San Jose Sharks players here. We’re lucky

it’s a nice day to have that. Probably appropriate timing.”,“You see the passion and the joy those kids bring to playing the game, you forget that is a game. So,” DeBoer said Sunday. “Sometimes doing this every day

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2. New power play units getting another try: The Sharks will stick with the new-look first and second power play units for at least another game as they face the Anaheim Ducks for the last time this season at SAP Center.

In Monday’s morning skate, Tomas Hertl,adidas Steven Stamkos jersey, Joe Pavelski, Boedker, Danny O’Regan, the first unit had Joe Thornton, Kevin Labanc and Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Tim Heed rotating on defense. The second unit featured Logan Couture,Authentic Michael Hutchinson jersey, Joonas Dosnkoi and Brent Burns.

“Sometimes you need a little shake up to just simplify things and I think we did a very good job, Boedker said. “We were good entering the puck and we got the puck in the right guys’ hands and they made plays. It’s just a matter of time before those start bouncing in.”,” Saturday

3. Burns not moving anywhere: The Sharks have a surplus of defensemen who are capable of playing in the NHL and not enough forwards making a dent on the scoresheet. So DeBoer was asked Monday if there’s been any consideration whatsoever of moving Burns back to a forward position.

” DeBoer said. “Not even on my radar. The guy won the Norris Trophy last year.”,adidas Connor Hellebuyck jersey,“No

and had 211 points in his next 246 regular season games.,Authentic Connor Hellebuyck jersey,As many will recall, Burns made an immediate impact and reignited what had been a stagnant Sharks offense at the time. Burns was moved back to defense prior to the 2014-15 season, Burns was moved from defense to forward midway through the lockout shortened 2012-2013 season. Playing on a line with Thornton

The Sharks have scored just seven even strength goals in the last seven games. Their leading goal scorer is Couture with 10. After that,Authentic Claude Giroux jersey, and Pavelski and Chris Tierney each have four., Joonas Donskoi has five

one year after he led all NHL defensemen with 76 points.,Meanwhile Burns is stuck in an epic slump with no goals this season and no points at all in his last seven games. He has seven assists in 18 games

two hits and seven giveaways.,Burns’ stat line from Saturday had him with four shots on net, four missed shots, eight attempts blocked

“You lead the league in a department, whether its goal scoring by a defenseman, whether it’s shots on net, teams are going to game-plan around that,” DeBoer said.

but those will come.”,“But having said that, I think he’s done a great job of finding ways to still get pucks through. They haven’t gone in. But it definitely hasn’t decreased his ability to do what he does best. He’s not getting the results, statistics aside

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