Brent Burns scores in OT to lift Sharks past Ducks

ANAHEIM -- Brent Burns scored in overtime, and Martin Jones made 34 saves to help the Sharks defeat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 at Honda Center on Tuesday.
Burns went to his backhand around goalie John Gibson with 2:14 left in overtime to give the Sharks their third straight win, seventh in their past eight games. San Jose is 6-1 in overtime.
"I have no clue," Burns said when asked about the Sharks' overtime success. "It's 3-on-3 and anything can happen."
Paul Martin and Melker Karlsson scored for the Sharks (22-12-1).

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"We found a way," coach Peter DeBoer said. "Our goalie was our best player. I think last time in here we played a great game and found a way to lose in the last minute. I guess the hockey gods even things out sometimes."
Jakob Silfverberg scored for the second time in as many games, and Ondrej Kase scored his second NHL goal for Anaheim (17-12-7), which has lost three straight (0-2-1). Gibson made 22 saves.
Anaheim is 1-7 in overtime.
Ducks coach Randy Carlyle couldn't point to one particular thing they struggle with in overtime, but he said Anaheim was doomed from the start against San Jose when Cam Fowler, Ryan Kesler and Silfverberg got pinned in their own end for the first three minutes.

The long shift forced Carlyle to use different personnel groupings, one of which gave up the goal to Burns.
"We won the faceoff, and they ended up with the puck for the first two minutes of it," Carlyle said. "I think they made three line changes before we got our guys off. It was part parcel who we had on the ice. And when the goal went in, we wouldn't normally have a young player like Kase out there, but the other players were gassed."
Silfverberg tied the game 2-2 with 6:25 left in the third period, redirecting a Kesler shot.
Karlsson put the Sharks up 2-1 at 14:18 of the second period when he got a stick on Joel Ward's centering pass and the puck skipped over an outstretched Gibson.
Kase made it 1-1 at 8:22 of the second when he beat Jones with a backhand shot from his knees.
Martin opened the scoring 6:30 into the game when he scored on a rebound. With a pileup in the crease, the puck got to Martin near the left faceoff dot, and his shot went over Gibson to make it 1-0.
Ducks defenseman Sami Vatanen was scratched with the flu.

Goal of the game

Burns took a feed from Joe Pavelski, deked around Gibson and scored on his backhand to win it for San Jose.

Save of the game

Jones momentarily protected a 2-1 lead in the third period when he smothered Kesler's shot from the right faceoff dot and held on to the puck.

Unsung performance of the game

Pavelski set up the overtime goal with some slick puck-handling to get around Kase at center ice before passing the puck through Fowler's legs to Burns.

Highlight of the game

From his knees to the right of the San Jose net, Kase spun around and beat Jones with a backhand shot.

They said it

"We have a lot of skill, and I think they have some confidence when we get in that situation that if we give something up, Jones is going to make a save, and we aren't afraid to take some chances going the other way." -- Sharks coach Peter DeBoer on their overtime success
"We have to sort it out and really look into it. We've lost too many. With where we're going and how tight the [Pacific Division] is going to be, we have to find ways to get that second point if that's in overtime or a shootout." -- Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano on their 1-7 overtime record

Need to know

Burns has 10 NHL regular-season overtime goals, second among defensemen in League history behind Scott Niedermayer (13).

What's next

Sharks:Host the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday (10 p.m. ET; CSN-CA, CSN-PH, NHL.TV)
Ducks:At the Calgary Flames on Thursday (9 p.m. ET; SN360, PRIME, NHL.TV)