More of a look at the Sharks-Ducks game from last night

I've now had a chance to look at some of the game. Too much going on to really take the time to watch it all, but I've looked at the goals. Benn Ferriero's first goal was nice. On a delayed penalty call, he beat his check off the boards to pick up the rebound from the shot by Jason Demers. He was able to beat Jonas Hiller five-hole for the goal.

Ryan Whitney had a tough night. On the second Sharks goal, he broke rule number 1 when shooting from the point - miss the man in front of you. He drilled it right into Patrick Marleau and got caught flat footed. Marleau's off to the races, beating Hiller on the backhand for the short handed goal. Whitney also scores himself in a diving effort to break up the play, but to no avail.

The Sharks third goal of the period came just after they killed a penalty and were able to spring a 2-on-1 break with Dany Heatley and Joe Thornton. Thornton head-manned it to Heatley, carrying up the right wing. Here, Whitney slid over to cover the puck carrier, Heatley, leaving Thornton all alone to come barreling down the slot. That's mistake number 1. Number 2 came from Ryan Getzlaf, trailing the play. He was a little behind Thornton, and when Thornton stopped striding, so did Getzlaf. This left Thornton uncontested in making his shot. Had Getzlaf continued striding, he could have been able to get on to Thornton's stick, making it harder for Thornton to make a play. However, it looks like everyone thought Heatley was going to shoot, so when he passed, they were out of luck. This gave the Sharks a 3-0 lead at the end of the first period.

In the second, the bad breaks continued for Whitney as he took a retaliation penalty against Jed Ortmeyer. Devin Setoguchi worked a give-and-go with Heatley to get his first of the campaign, giving Heatley the sniper two assists on the night.

The Sharks went into the third with a 4-0 lead. A little into the period there was a meeting of the clans behind the Sharks net after Dan Boyle cranked Todd Marchant into the boards. Lots of players got involved, resulting in some quizzical calls by the referees. Douglas Murray clearly threw punches, but was called for only a game misconduct. As they don't record the reason on the score sheet, we can guess that it was for 3rd man in an altercation. Why wasn't there at a minimum a roughing penalty, or a fighting major? There were also several other players that got involved in it, so to single out any one player seems like a bad precedent to set.

The Ducks broke the shutout with a power play goal. Looking at the goal, you can see that the Sharks penalty killers got shifted out of their box, leaving Whitney open at the point with a clean shooting lane for his one-timer.

From what everybody is saying, and the little I saw, it was a better effort from the Sharks. Hopefully they can keep this going, but I expect some rough spots early.