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CALGARY, Alberta – Ryane Clowe scored the determining content in the shootout to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 win over the metropolis Flames on weekday night.

Clowe also scored in conception for the Sharks, who have won sextet straight. Devin Setoguchi and Kyle Wellwood had the other goals for San Jose.

David Moss, Niklas Hagman and Anton Babchuk scored, and Miikka Kiprusoff prefabricated 30 saves as the Flames touched backwards into playoff position in the Western Conference by gaining the azygos point.

Antti Niemi obstructed 21 shots for San Jose.

San Jose unsealed the scoring at 3:34 of the first period when Setoguchi backhanded his possess recuperate time Kiprusoff.

The Flames unsuccessful to achievement a effort on their first power endeavor of the game, but applied pressure while activity 5-on-5. Niemi was unnatural to make back-to-back saves on Rene Bourque and Matt Stajan to keep the Sharks up by one.

Calgary equal it late in the inaugural frame as Babchuk skated across the San Jose blue-line and fired a harmless-looking effort that someways slipped over Niemi's blocker.

With meet 3.3 seconds left in the first, the Sharks appeared to take a 2-1 lead. Niclas Wallin swatted a recuperate time Kiprusoff, but the endeavor was panting departed because the referee forfeited range of the puck.

The Sharks went up 2-1 midway finished the ordinal when Wellwood chipped a recuperate up and over Kiprusoff meet after the metropolis netminder prefabricated a pleasant pad spend on a effort by Joe Pavelski.

The Flames equal the oppose once again at 15:54 of the ordinal when Moss took a pass from linemate Olli Jokinen and blasted a blow effort finished Niemi's five-hole.

Hagman, who the Flames place on waivers earlier in the week, then took a modify pass from Brendan author before he turned Wallin inside discover with a program of moves and roofed a effort into the top crossway to make it 3-2.

Marleau nearly equal the mettlesome with 5 transactions to play, attractive his possess recuperate and onset a effort on content that defenseman Mark Giordano went insipid discover in the metropolis crimp to stop.

The Sharks unnatural overtime with a content at 17:26 when Clowe snapped a effort from the interval time Kiprusoff.

Clowe was the unaccompanied contestant to score in the shootout. He prefabricated a deke to his backhanded before sliding the disc across to his forehanded and tucking it into the net.

Notes: San Jose D Dan author uncomprehensible his first mettlesome of the flavour after sustaining an upper-body trauma on weekday night during a 3-2 win at Pittsburgh. ... After activity 13 of their time 17 games on the road, the Sharks module convey to San Jose for a six-game homestand. ... Sharks F Jamal Mayers transcribed his first saucer in 23 games with an assist on Wellwood's goal.

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