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The San Jose Sharks (7-17-2, 16 points, 8th Pacific) play the fifth game of a six-game road trip on Thursday when paying a visit to Little Caesars Arena in Motown to face the Detroit Red Wings (14-7-3, 31 points, 2nd Atlantic). San Jose defeated the New York Islanders 5-4 on Tuesday night and are 2-2 through the first four games of their road trip. Detroit defeated the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night 5-3 for their third consecutive win. Buffalo is six points behind first place Boston in the Atlantic. San Jose will play without C Ryan Carpenter, C Logan Couture, D Ty Emberson, C Luke Kunin and LW Oskar Lindblom. Detroit will play without RW Patrick Kane and RW Matt Luff.
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The San Jose Sharks are averaging 2.00 goals per game which is last in hockey and the Sharks are taking the fewest shots in the NHL at 24.8 per game. San Jose is winning 52.0% of its face-offs, which is eighth best, while the Sharks’ power play is 21st, scoring 18.6% of the time. Tomas Hertl is the stats king for San Jose leading in goals (7), assists (14) and points (21). Fabian Zetterlund has also scored seven goals for San Jose and three other players have scored six goals each. Mikael Granlund is second in both assists with 11 and points with 13.
San Jose is also 32nd or last in goals against at 4.00 per game. The Sharks are allowing an average of 37.2 shots per game which is also last. San Jose is 31st or next to last in penalty kill success, holding opponents scoreless only 71.1% of the time the Sharks are s hort-handed. MacKenzie Blackwood is 3-11-2 with a 3.72 goals against average and .899 save percentage, while backup Kaapo Kahkonen is 4-6-0 with a 3.96 goals against average and .896 save percentage.
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