SAN JOSE – Joonas Donskoi may still be a rookie in the NHL, but he spoke like a grizzled veteran after his two misplays in the first period keyed a 4-2 Vancouver win over the Sharks on Thursday at SAP Center.
Donskoi couldn’t handle a simple pass in the neutral zone from Paul Martin, leading to Daniel Sedin’s rebound score a little more a minute after the puck dropped, and later coughed up the disc to Bo Horvat, who raced in and beat Martin Jones on a partial breakaway before Donskoi could recover.
He admitted to the “two big mistakes” in his postgame media scrum, but already seemed to be in the process of putting the night behind him.