SAN JOSE -– There were several tanks that weren’t all that full on Thursday night, and that has nothing to do with the sparse crowd at the SAP Center, still commonly referred to as the Shark Tank.
In front of an alarmingly small crowd, the Sharks managed to fight through the fatigue of playing their fourth game in six nights and third straight in a different time zone in getting past Todd McLellan’s Edmonton Oilers in a shootout, 2-1.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored in regulation, Martin Jones made 24 saves, and Joe Pavelski and Joonas Donskoi converted their shootout attempts to move San Jose to 22-18-2 (46 points) and into third place in the Pacific Division.