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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Marc-Andre Fleury is finally having fun this season.Fleury www.officialsharks.com , a 15-year veteran, stopped 33 shots to earn his league-leading fifth shutout of the season as Vegas defeated the San Jose Sharks 6-0 Saturday night.It was the second shutout in as many nights for Fleury and marked the first time in his career that he recorded back-to-back shutouts since the 2014-15 season, when he blanked Calgary (Feb. 4) and Edmonton (Feb. 6).“It’s good to get two games in two nights against division rivals and games that mean a lot right now as we’re trying to climb back in the standings,” said Fleury, who stopped 29 shots on Friday against Calgary. “It’s fun, two games at home, get a couple wins — it’s nice.”It was the 53rd shutout of Fleury’s career, and moved him into a tie for 23rd all-time with Nashville’s Pekka Rinne.The Sharks came into the game having scored 75 goals this season, tied for sixth in the league. But San Jose couldn’t find the back of the net.The Golden Knights, who started the week near the bottom of the Western Conference standings, have won three straight and are now tied for third with Anaheim in the Pacific Division, both with 25 points.“We’re playing with a lot of pace right now, and that seems to frustrate teams,” said Reilly Smith San Jose Sharks T-Shirts Authentic , who registered two assists and is now riding a five-game point streak (1 goal, 7 assists). “I don’t think we’re really running around doing anything special, but I think it’s just frustration’s growing on other teams because we’re loading quickly and making it tough on them.”Max Pacioretty scored twice and William Karlsson, Colin Miller, William Carrier and Alex Tuch also scored for Vegas.“You obviously want to contribute, but most important thing is the wins,” said Pacioretty, who has at least one point in four of his last five games. “When we were losing from lack of scoring and the puck wasn’t going in for me, you obviously take that on your shoulders. But nights like tonight it’s definitely a group effort.”San Jose netminder Aaron Dell, who registered shutouts in his previous two starts, made 30 saves in the loss.“We weren’t good tonight,” San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said. “Two of our last three games were shutouts, we’re 4-1-1 in our last home games, so you know what San Jose Sharks Hoodies Authentic , we had a bad night. It happens.”Karlsson got the Golden Knights on the board moments after the puck drop, scoring the fastest goal in franchise history, just 14 seconds into the game. Miller, who also had an assist, ripped a slap shot from the circle to make it 2-0 shortly thereafter.Pacioretty scored the team’s next two goals, later in the period. The four goals in the first period were the most in any period by the Golden Knights this season.Carrier got the lone goal in the second period when he backhanded the puck just under Dell’s pads to make it 5-0, and Tuch continued his impressive season with his seventh goal of the season in the third period.“We played our game tonight, it was great,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. “We played a real good hockey team over there and we played the type of game that we’re used to playing. It was a fast game, it was a quick game, but we were real competitive tonight.”NOTES: Vegas is 4-1-0 since D Nate Schmidt returned from a 20-game suspension. … Vegas D Nick Holden is one game shy of his 400th career game. … San Jose is now 1-6-0 when its opponents score first. … The Sharks are outshooting opponents 842-686 and have outshot their opponent in 18 of 24 games. … Vegas was 3-0-1 against the Sharks last season and eliminated them from the second round of the playoffs.UP NEXTSharks: Continue a five-game road trip in Buffalo on Tuesday.Golden Knights: Visit Chicago on Tuesday. Two struggling teams will meet in Las Vegas on Saturday night, when the Vegas Golden Knights host the Carolina Hurricanes.The Hurricanes showed heart on Friday night by overcoming a 3-0 deficit to force overtime and earn a point, but they ended up with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Arizona Coyotes.It was the third straight loss for Carolina, which has lost six of its past eight games.Article continues below ...Hurricanes winger Sebastian Aho had his assist streak broken Friday San Jose Sharks Hats Authentic , leaving him one shy of the NHL record after he was held without a point for the first time this season. He was trying to become the first player in NHL history with a 13-game assist streak to open a season. Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers in 1982-83, and Ken Linseman of the Boston Bruins in 1985-86 each had 12. Aho has four goals and 13 assists for the season.“We’ve got to be ready to start that game. We can’t give ourselves that hole to dig out of,” Hurricanes forward Jordan Martinook said on the team’s website. “On the other side of it, it just shows the attitude in this room that we won’t quit. We fight until the very last second. One point is huge, but we wanted that second one.”Martinook, Andrei Svechnikov and Jordan Staal tallied goals for the Hurricanes, but Michael Grabner won it for the Coyotes in 3-on-3 overtime.“The boys dug in and found a way to get a point, to battle back and show some character in the way we want to play,” Staal said.The three straight losses all have been by one-goal margins, but the recent results have not been good for Carolina, which won four of its first five games to start the season but is now 6-5-2.Vegas (5-7-1) got to the Stanley Cup Finals as an expansion team last season, but the Golden Knights find themselves in seventh place in the Pacific Division heading into Saturday’s action.They have lost two straight games, including Thursday’s 5-3 loss to St. Louis, and have dropped four of their last five. The only win in that span was an overtime victory over Ottawa last Sunday.Vegas is 29th in the league in scoring Custom San Jose Sharks Jerseys , having scored 30 times in 13 games. “I don’t think this is about anybody except us. It’s not about the other teams right now it’s about our team,” said Vegas center Erik Haula on the team’s website. “Consistently, we keep making the same kind of mistakes and we aren’t playing a full game. That’s the problem, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing. We’re at the bottom of the barrel right now. Nobody is in a good mood. But it’s not going to come easy. We have to really dig in.”Max Pacioretty and Paul Stastny have been out with injuries and Nate Schmidt has been unavailable due to a suspension. Pacioretty (upper body) has missed the past three games and remains day-to-day with no timetable for his return. Stastny (lower body) won’t be back for at least another month.“We have times in the game when we play the right way and other times when we don’t, and it ends up costing us big time,” Pierre-Edouard Bellemare.said. “We’re going to have to figure out how to play a full 60 minutes because right now, 40 is nowhere near close enough.”Alex Tuch had a goal and an assist in the loss to the Blues, and Vegas’ leading scorer, Jonathan Marchessault, picked up an assist, giving him 13 points (six goals, seven assists) for the season.
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