{"id":439046,"date":"2026-02-01T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439046\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:27:14","slug":"farabees-short-handed-goal-in-the-3rd-period-lifts-the-flames-to-a-3-2-win-over-the-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439046\/","title":{"rendered":"Farabee\u2019s short-handed goal in the 3rd period lifts the Flames to a 3-2 win over the Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Joel Farabee\u2019s short-handed goal at 6:53 of the third period broke a tie and sent the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Frost and Matvei Gridin each scored his 12th goal of the season for the Flames (22-26-6), who overcame a pair of one-goal deficits and snapped a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith and Adam Gaudette scored for the Sharks (27-22-4), who have lost two in a row and four of seven.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 39 shots for the Sharks, while Dustin Wolf made 23 saves for the Flames.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf\u2019s best stop came against Macklin Celebrini with 21 seconds remaining when he stuck out a pad to deny the star forward after he was set up all by himself in front of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini\u2019s three-game point streak was snapped (three goals, four assists).<\/p>\n<p>Just 15 seconds after teammate Nazem Kadri was penalized for slashing, Farabee broke a 2-all tie with Calgary&#8217;s NHL-leading eighth short-handed goal. Mikael Backlund\u2019s slap shot missed the net, but the rebound caromed right back out front where Farbee knocked a backhand through Nedeljkovic\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was Calgary\u2019s first victory since trading defenseman Rasmus Andersson. The Flames had gone 0-3-2 and scored only seven goals since the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf, who is from Gilroy, California, improved to 16-2-2 against teams from his home state \u2014 the Sharks, Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks. He is 9-2-0 against San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>While recently acquired left wing Kiefer Sherwood (upper body) remains out, San Jose did welcome back left wing Philipp Kurashev (upper body, 19 games) and defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin (undisclosed, 10 games).<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, acquired from Vancouver on Jan. 19, hasn\u2019t played since Jan. 10, but he\u2019s back skating with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Sharks: Visit the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Flames: Host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Joel Farabee\u2019s short-handed goal at 6:53 of the third period broke a tie and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2806,5807,233,26,96,504,6816,5,9296,6386,145,501,6751,1740,4527,2054,4,4525,3327,519,168,5306,5305,5719,1780,3318,31,893,507],"class_list":["post-439046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-adam-gaudette","tag-alex-nedeljkovic","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-calgary-flames","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-dustin-wolf","tag-goal-of-the-season","tag-hockey","tag-joel-farabee","tag-kiefer-sherwood","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-matvei-gridin","tag-mikael-backlund","tag-morgan-frost","tag-nazem-kadri","tag-nhl","tag-philipp-kurashev","tag-rasmus-andersson","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","tag-sharks","tag-the-flames","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-vancouver","tag-will-smith"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}