Recap: Henrique Scores Twice in 6-5 Shootout Win over San Jose

Adam Henrique scored twice and Troy Terry buried the shootout winner, giving the Ducks a 6-5 win over the San Jose Sharks tonight at SAP Center.
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With the win, the club's first road victory, Anaheim improved to 3-6-1 on the season. The Ducks have won back-to-back games and earned standings points in three of their last six contests (2-3-1).
Henrique's two goals led a Ducks attack that produced a season-high 44 shots. Frank Vatrano, Ryan Strome and Max Comtois also scored for Anaheim. Terry and Kevin Shattenkirk added two assists.
Anthony Stolarz made 39 saves in his second start of the season, including a game-saving stop on Steven Lorentz with less than four minutes to play in the third period. Stolarz now has a 6-1-0 career record in seven games against San Jose.

Erik Karlsson notched his first career hat trick in the loss. Timo Meier also scored twice. Kaapo Kahkonen made 39 saves.
Anaheim got the better of a wild first period that saw five goals, bookended by Henrique's first two markers of the season.
The versatile veteran forward put Anaheim ahead first off a nice feed from Shattenkirk, who walked out of the corner and fed Henrique with a short pass in the left circle. Henrique got rid of his shot quickly, beating Kahkonen under the blocker.

With two goals on the night, Henrique is now three away from 100 as a Duck.
The Sharks would respond in the blink of an eye though, tying the game and then taking the lead on a pair of blueline bids by Karlsson.
The first came as he walked the stripe from right to left, looking for a lane before getting his shot through a swarm of bodies in front of Stolarz. The second, scored 23 seconds later, was tipped on the way, deflecting off the skate of Simon Benoit and changing direction.
Karlsson, who is second among active NHL defensemen in career points (162-512=674), goals and assists, has eight points (6-2=8) in his last three games.
Vatrano continued the back-and-forth affair four minutes later, tying the game on a one-timer from the slot. As Isac Lundestrom circled the net, Vatrano snuck towards open ice between the hashmarks, catching a Sharks forward puck-watching and wasting no time with his shot, beating Kahkonen inside the near post.

Henrique capped the crazy start with a remarkable goal, dancing through the Sharks defense to put the Ducks back ahead. Skating through neutral ice, Henrique took a pass from Trevor Zegras on the right wing wall. As he got to the blue line, he bluffed like he was about to wind for a slapshot before slipping the puck to the inside, getting around Sharks defender Matt Benning and lifting a backhander over Kahkonen's glove.

The scoring pace would continue into the middle frame, with San Jose twice pulling even on goals by Meier.
The Swiss forward initially tied the game on the power play. As the Sharks tried to gain the offensive zone, they dropped the puck back for Meier sprinting neutral ice. When he hit the blue line, he briefly fell while fighting through the checks of two Ducks defenders, but quickly got back to his feet and buried a shot over Stolarz's blocker to tie the game at three.
The Ducks have allowed a power-play goal in five straight games.
Anaheim would again temporarily reclaim the lead late in the period, this time on Strome's second goal as a Duck. Max Comtois retrieved a loose puck on right wing, working it back to the point for Terry, who walked in towards the middle of the ice before sliding a one-time dishto Klingberg in the left faceoff circle. Klingberg got his shot to the net, hitting Strome in the chest and carroming past Kahkonen to give the Ducks a 4-3 lead.

The seesaw battle would just continue 21 seconds later on an unfortunate sequence for Anaheim. With Meier carrying the puck into the Ducks defensive zone, Jakob Silfverberg tried to swipe it away on the backcheck, but instead of deflecting into the corner, it went right on net, getting by Stolarz to even the score at four.
Meier has eight points (5-3=8) in his last five games against the Ducks.
The non-stop offense would suddenly cease fire after that though and the score would hold until past the midway point of the third, when the Ducks would take their fourth lead of the night on another crisp passing play to the slot. As the Ducks maintained offensive zone pressure, Terry tracked down an errant shot by Shattenkirk, circling the net and spotting Comtois alone. Terry delivered the pass and Comtois did the rest, sniping it past Kahkonen glove side for a 5-4 advantage.

Much like they did all night though, San Jose's stars answered to tie the game one final time. With the net empty and the extra attacker on, and much like his first two tallies of the night, Karlsson directed a shot on net from the right point, hoping to sneak it through bodies and past an unsuspecting Stolarz, and doing exactly that to complete his hat trick and force overtime.
Anaheim had the best chances of the OT session on a 4-on-3 power play, but could not get anything past Kahkonen in the five-minute period. Stolarz stopped two-of-three San Jose shooters in the shootout though while Terry and Zegras each scored, earning the extra standings point for Anaheim.
The Ducks continue their three-game road trip Thursday in Vancouver.