Will Smith scores twice for first NHL goals, Sharks beat Blackhawks 3-2 for third straight win

Will Smith scored doubly for his first NHL goals, and nan San Jose Sharks hit nan Chicago Blackhawks 3-2

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Will Smith scored doubly for his first NHL goals, and nan San Jose Sharks hit nan Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 connected Thursday.

The Sharks person won 3 consecutive aft going winless successful their first 9 games, while nan Blackhawks person dropped 5 of their past six.

On a powerfulness play midway done nan 2nd period, Smith – nan 4th wide prime successful nan 2023 draught – scored nan winning extremity pinch a wrist changeable disconnected nan crossbar.

Ryan Donato and Tyler Bertuzzi scored 50 seconds isolated successful nan first play to springiness Chicago a 2-1 lead, pinch Connor Murphy assisting connected some goals. Donato's extremity was 37 seconds aft Smith opened nan scoring.

Alexander Wennberg tied nan crippled astatine 2 early successful nan 2nd for San Jose.

Mackenzie Blackwood and Petr Mrazek each stopped 26 shots, but Blackwood will beryllium credited pinch nan win.

Blackhawks: Donato scored his team-leading sixth extremity of nan play and his 4th successful nan past 3 games.

Sharks: San Jose had conscionable 1 three-game triumph streak past season, erstwhile it vanished pinch nan worst grounds successful nan league.

Blackwood and nan Sharks killed a precocious 6-on-4 push from nan Blackhawks to clasp connected to nan lead aft Chicago pulled nan goalie and Fabian Zetterlund committed a precocious punishment pinch 1:19 to play.

Smith became nan youngest U.S.-born skater to people a extremity pinch nan Sharks. The 19-year-old had gone without a constituent done his first 8 NHL games earlier scoring twice.

The Blackhawks sojourn nan Kings connected Saturday, while nan Sharks big nan Canucks nan aforesaid day.

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