Couture, Sharks rally for OT victory against Jets

WINNIPEG -- Logan Couture scored at 1:21 of overtime, and the San Jose Sharks rallied for a 3-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre on Monday.

Couture, who won it on a breakaway, also had an assist when Tomas Hertl tied it with 11 seconds left in the third period.
"Just sticking with it; I really liked our 6-on-5," San Jose coach David Quinn said. "The third period was better than the first two. That being said, we got fortunate with some lucky bounces there when it looked like they were going to score a goal, but we've had plenty of nights where it didn't go our way. Tonight, we had it go our way."
Erik Karlsson had two assists, and James Reimer made 36 saves for the Sharks (19-33-12), who ended a five-game skid (0-4-1).
"It's good to battle back and just play with that compete and that willingness to do whatever it takes," Reimer said. "The boys, they left it all out there."

Nino Niederreiter and Nate Schmidt scored for the Jets (36-25-3), who went 0-for-6 on the power play and have lost eight of their past 10 games (2-6-2). David Rittich made 21 saves.
The Jets loss kept Winnipeg three points behind the Minnesota Wild for second place in the Central Division, and one ahead of the Colorado Avalanche, who hold the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.
"[The power play] had some good looks, just not enough," Jets coach Rick Bowness said. "You have that many opportunities, you'd like to see more, a couple chances per power play. If [Reimer] is making the saves, he's making the saves. Some of those power plays, we didn't create anything. The ones we did create chances on, he made the saves."

Steven Lorentz gave San Jose a 1-0 lead at 14:13 of the first period, knocking in a loose puck at the side of the net.
Niederreiter tied it 1-1 at 6:05 of the second period when he spun and fired a wrist shot from the edge of the left face-off circle.
It was Niederreiter's first goal since being acquired in a trade from the Nashville Predators on Feb. 25, and the 200th of his NHL career.
"It definitely felt great, but right now, obviously, we lost, so that's above everything else," Niederreiter said. "It's not very important right now. It's great to get on the board, but it's tough that we lost.
"[I] hope I'm not going to stop here; I'm trying to get more and more. [Two hundred is] definitely a great mark and I'm definitely proud of it, but hopefully there's more to come."

Schmidt gave Winnipeg a 2-1 lead at 14:53 of the third, one-timing Nikolaj Ehlers' feed from behind the net shortly after a power play expired, but Hertl tied it 2-2 when Karlsson's attempted shot hit Blake Wheeler's stick and found Hertl in the left circle.
"I thought [Rittich] did a really good job for us all night," Schmidt said. "For that to be one that tied it up you feel for him, because I thought the guys did a good job on the ice. A pretty good unit they send out at the end. Tough way after getting that bounce and climbing our way back into the game."
NOTES:Sharks defenseman Jacob MacDonald did not play after the first period because of an undisclosed injury. There was no update. … San Jose defenseman Nikolai Knyzhov had one hit and one blocked shot in 14:19 of ice time in his first NHL game since the 2020-21 season while recovering from groin and Achilles injuries… Niederreiter became the first Swiss-born player to score 200 NHL goals. Predators defenseman Roman Josi is second with 157.