Will Smith had a goal and an assist, but Cole Caufield’s beautiful overtime-winning goal led the Montreal Canadians to a 4-3 win on Thursday.
Montreal also got two goals from Nick Suzuki and one from Alex Newhook and Sam Montembeault made 23 saves.
In a high-flying and exciting game between two young teams, San Jose also got goals from Nico Sturm and Fabian Zetterlund. Alexandar Georgiev made 29 saves.
After much back and forth in overtime, Caufield walked in one-on-one against Macklin Celebrini and went behind the back, through the legs, and over Georgiev.
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Henry Thrun left the game at the end of the first period but would return in the second. He later left the game again in the third period.
Smith was spotted with a different stick and had scored just three goals in his last 22 games entering tonight. With two points tonight, the 2023 No. 4 overall pick has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his previous 12 games.
Interesting switch I noticed from Will Smith tonight. He’s using a Bauer Hyperlight 2 stick. For most, if not all, of the season, he’s used a Bauer Tracer stick. Including tonight, Smith has just 3 goals in his last 23 games. The Tracer is a mid-kick point stick (kick point is…
— Max Miller (@Real_Max_Miller) February 28, 2025
Will Smith fed Zetterlund with a reverse pass from behind the net to give the Sharks a 1-0 lead 3:56 into the first period.
After a bad turnover at the offensive blue line by Jake Walman, Cole Caufield fed Suzuki on a two-on-one to tie the game at one at 6:49.
After Collin Graf dangled a defender, he fed the puck in front to Klim Kostin, who tapped it over to Nico Sturm to give the Sharks a 2-1 lead at 12:37.
Suzuki finishes off a nice passing play for his second goal of the game at 19:04.
Smith walked down the left wing and beat the goalie over the glove with a wrist shot to give the Sharks a 3-2 lead at 17:21 of the second period.
Newhook ties it up at 3 2:22 into the third period.
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