Brodie’s Breakdown vs CGY (11/13)

Brodie’s Breakdown vs CGY (11/13)

Brody Brazil here to recap. Game 18 on the season. And crazy how anything can happen on any given night in the NHL. The Flames had just lost three straight before facing the Sharks. Only two goals for Calgary in their prior three games. They were on a skid, but as you may have guessed, probably due to break out of it on home ice. Let’s get to our breakdown. The Sharks came in undefeated in this month of November and also eight wins across their previous 11 games. Scoring goals, yes, but more importantly holding other teams down on the scoreboard as in seven in a row, allowing two or fewer to opponents. Yoslavasarov, a huge part of that. And starting again tonight with Alex Nadulkovich away from the team right now, tending to a personal matter. And check out the generosity here of Mlin Celibbrini. If pucks are like what, 20 bucks a pop, Mack might have just given away Randy Hans’s entire suit allowance by the end of this warm-up session. Good on Mlin for representing team teal so well on the road. Not a very productive first period with two main factors here. This injury to Jeff Skinner as he lost footing near the half wall trying to win that puck away from Rory Karens’s. Skinner needed help off the ice. He didn’t put much weight on his right side. He also did not return to this game. A huge loss for the Sharks, not only in this contest, but also gives you a bad feeling already about the beyond. We’re certainly wishing number 53 the best of luck. The other factor was Jaruslav Ascarov and the ice in that first period was extremely tilted as Calgary logged 13 shots on goal and outshot San Jose by a dozen. Asi was up to the challenge and it was a little bit of everything he faced. point shots, close chances, bouncing pucks, second chances, shots through traffic, shots he could see. 30 took care of everything. And kind of a fun situation right now for Sharks fans because it’s been a while since we’ve seen the future of a franchise type goalie getting their first full NHL season in front of us. Lots of optimism here and for very good reason. We were scoreless after one and it kind of felt like the Sharks were playing with yeah fire. Calgary controlling the contest and pretty soon they were controlling the scoreboard as well but only by the slimmest of margins. This Sharks turnover and maybe a little miscommunication in their own end turns costly. Blake Coleman there is Johnny on the spot and takes it in all alone and goes top cheese on ASI. Tough spot for any goalie to be in. And the Flames are up one- nothing just 546 into the period. But you know what? These are my highlights. And I’d rather see and focus on more ASI. He remained absolutely dominant in the rest of this period. I mean, he could have broken after bending, but he did not. He also got some help from teammates like John Clingberg there right out front and was also really good when the Flames got their best grade A chances. Cross slot passes, nothing phased him. And because of that effort, the Sharks were down just one- nothing after 40, still in striking distance. And this might be a good time to make this half rant, half observation, because the Sharks of yester year, just like this, down one- nothing in a one-sided game with 20 minutes left to play on the road, may not have felt like they had a great shot or any shot to ultimately get the result, but this team does. And that’s why they’re different. That’s where they’re different. That’s how they’ve improved. Loitering is actually a skill and on a lot of nights this year that loitering will pay off. But tonight it didn’t. These were the Sharks best chances of the final period and really the entire night. It was almost a full 2 minutes with Asi pulled to go six on five. And unfortunately San Jose’s biggest problems in Alberta continued to be their downfall till the end of regulation. Not enough shots or chances on Dustin Wolf to light the lamp. San Jose getting one and five and 10 shots by period. And eventually the Flames make it look and feel like a totally different two nothing score and game with the Samuel Hanzek empty netter. But again, good effort by the Sharks. Although you can’t win if you don’t score. It’s the second time this season they’ve been shut out. Yeah, I think it was uh really frustrating. I don’t think we were ready to ready to play tonight and um I think it was just overall frustrating. I think um obviously they they’re a hardworking team and uh they’re desperate, but um I think what has made us successful this season is being desperate. So obvious obviously a little disappointing. Um I I I don’t think there’s a reason. I think you know is just just one of those games. Um you know didn’t have it didn’t come come prepared or or whatnot or or whatever it was. Um but I mean you know it’s It’s a quick turnaround, so I mean, learn from it and and go to Seattle and and, you know, just try to get better. I mean, I think we just weren’t uh executing at all today. It was just um yeah, not a good game at all. And uh it’s unfortunate cuz uh we were definitely uh you know, going in a good direction, but it’s we have to move on and we have to to look at what we did wrong, but learn from it. and uh now it’s next to is Seattle and uh we have to correct it and be better. And so overall this one does not really go into the bad game category/ situation for the Sharks. Just an unfortunate evening in Calgary on the scoring side, which had been doing enough lately to also get the results. But still, if you can get this kind of defensive effort from the Sharks on any regular basis the rest of this season, you absolutely take that as a positive. That is the foundation of getting this team a lot more wins the rest of this season. We’ll see you for the next recap on Saturday from Seattle.

Brodie breaks down the Sharks 2-0 loss to the Calgary Flames on November 13, 2025.