Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

NHL: San Jose 3, Phoenix 2

|
|
 
  
Published: March. 29, 2009 at 1:46 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 29 (UPI) -- Joe Pavelski's third-period power-play goal Saturday lifted the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes.

Pavelski's 23rd goal this season broke a 2-2 at the 1:34 mark. Jody Shelley (unassisted) and Tom Cavanagh scored in the second, and Evgeni Nabokov was credited with 25 saves on 27 shots for the Sharks, who stopped a two-game skid following a three-game winning streak.

San Jose rose to 109 points, two better than Detroit for the best record in the Western Conference and in the NHL overall.

Phoenix got second-period goals from Kurt Sauer and Matthew Lombardi.

Ilya Bryzgalov was beaten three times on 32 shots for the Coyotes, who have lost six in a row and are 14th in the West.

Devin Setoguchi had his five-game points streak snapped.

Topics: Evgeni Nabokov, Jody Shelley, Joe Pavelski, Tom Cavanagh
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade N.Y. Giants win Super Bowl XLVI Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
Trading crack for a lapdance, yelling racial slurs, assaulting police, spitting blood, and beating...
History will remember George H.W. Bush for his part in the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin...
And now, pictures of dogs underwater
There are many layers to the OWS onion, and each one is more difficult than the last to peel back....
Remember that YouTube Dad who shot daughter's laptop? Apparently some of the local city leaders...
America has a long history of being VERY VERY ANGRY. But we get over it