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Ward Jersey ,Calif. (AP) ¡ª Timo Meier says he isn¡¯t a big stats
guy. The San Jose Sharks¡® forward insists his focus is on winning.¡°My goal is to
help the team win games and to do as much as I can,¡± he said. ¡°I¡¯m not a numbers
guy. I¡¯m not focusing on numbers, only to be the best player I can be.¡±He was
every bit the player the Sharks needed on Saturday night.Meier got his second
goal of the game 13 seconds into overtime and the Sharks rallied to beat the
Philadelphia Flyers 4-3.Joe Pavelski and Joe Thornton also scored for San Jose,
and Martin Jones finished with 22 saves.Nolan Patrick, Jordan Weal and Jakub
Voracek scored for Philadelphia, which was looking to sweep the California
portion of its trip after beating Anaheim and Los Angeles earlier in the week.
Oskar Lindblom had two assists and Cal Pickard stopped 29 shots in his third
start.Meier¡¯s winning goal was his 11th on the season, and eighth in his last
seven games.¡°He¡¯s been great,¡± Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said. ¡°Thankfully he¡¯s
off to the start he¡¯s off to. We need him. We needed somebody to step up.¡±Logan
Couture assisted the game-winner, extending his career-best point streak to nine
games.Thornton¡¯s first goal of the season with just under 5 minutes left in the
third tied the score 3-3.Thornton, 39, missed nearly half of last season after
undergoing knee surgery on his right MCL
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swelling in the same knee.¡°Great for Joe,¡± DeBoer said. ¡°Great for him to get
one. He¡¯s been through an awful lot, worked his (butt) off for months here to
get back. I think it¡¯s appropriate that he was the guy that got us back in the
game. So that was awesome.¡±Voracek had given the Flyers the lead with 30 seconds
remaining in the second.Patrick opened the scoring just 37 seconds into the
game, and Meier tied it at 3:15.Weal put the Flyers back ahead with 3:20 left in
the opening period, but Pavelski evened the score again just past the midpoint
of the second.¡°I¡¯m (upset) about losing tonight, so that¡¯s all I evaluated,¡±
Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said. ¡°Not worried about the last two games and I¡¯m
not worried about the next game. I don¡¯t like the way we lost the game tonight
and that¡¯s that. But we had a lot of guys that battled hard tonight and that
park I like. We came into a tough building, we fought for a point, we wanted the
next point.¡±NOTES: Flyers G Michal Neuvirth (lower body injury) was sent back to
Philadelphia to meet with team doctors. ¡ Sharks coach Pete DeBoer shook up his
team¡¯s lineup, moving F Evander Kane to the first line and returning Meier to
the second line. Rookie C Rourke Chartier skated on the third line in place of
rookie Antti Suomela, a healthy scratch. . C Tomas Hertl left the game in the
second period. DeBoer said he experienced a head injury
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known.UP NEXTFlyers: Conclude their four-game road trip on Monday in
Arizona.Sharks: Host Minnesota on Tuesday. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ¡ª Ottawa coach Guy
Boucher flashed a big smile while he talked about the Senators¡® resiliency in a
comeback win against the Eastern Conference¡¯s top team.Rookie Brady Tkachuk and
Ryan Dzingel scored during Ottawa¡¯s four-goal third period, and the Senators
beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-4 on Saturday night.¡°A great rallying between the
second and third,¡± Boucher said. ¡°A great third period.¡±Ottawa had been 0-6-0
when trailing after two periods.¡°It¡¯s a huge win for our team,¡± Tkachuk said. ¡°A
comeback like that, it really shows all the character in the room. It was an
awesome night for the team.¡±Matt Duchene and Bobby Ryan each had a goal and two
assists for the Senators. Tkachuk and Colin White had a goal and an assist. Mark
Stone also scored, and Craig Anderson stopped 24 shots.Mathieu Joseph had two
goals and an assist for the Lightning, and Victor Hedman scored in his return
from an injury. Braydon Coburn also scored and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28
saves.¡°It was a tough pill to swallow,¡± Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. ¡°It was
the perfect storm against us.¡±Tkachuk, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2018 draft,
was credited with his fourth goal of the season when Lightning defenseman Dan
Girardi¡¯s clearing attempt near the goal line wound up in the net early in the
third.The 19-year-old Tkachuk assisted on White¡¯s tying power-play goal at 8:41.
Dzingel made it 5-4 from the low left circle with 9:30 left
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Cole Jersey , and Stone added a power-play goal during the final
minute.Tkachuk was playing in his second game after sitting out nine with a leg
injury.¡°Just the fact you¡¯re getting one guy back makes a gigantic difference
because he gives you that depth that we¡¯ve been missing for a few week now,¡±
Boucher said.Joseph put the Lightning up 4-2 from the right circle at 14:32 of
the second. The rookie forward also scored his first career goal against Ottawa
on Nov. 4.Hedman, who missed seven games with a shoulder injury, tied it at 2 by
splitting a pair of defenders skating in from the right wing boards and scoring
a power-play goal from the slot just 39 seconds into the second.¡°You¡¯ve got to
take what¡¯s there,¡± Hedman said. ¡°Find an opening. Maybe I got a little lucky on
the shot. It¡¯s a good feeling.¡±Tampa Bay went up 3-2 when Coburn¡¯s soft,
knuckling shot from the blue line eluded Anderson with 10:45 left in the
second.The Senators needed just three shots to take a 2-0 lead 7:21 into the
game.Duchene had a wraparound goal at 4:58 before Ryan made it 2-0 on a rebound
2:23 later.Joseph had his shot at 8:49 of the first go off Ottawa defenseman
Thomas Chabot and in.NOTES: Lightning D Anton Stralman and LW Adam Erne were
scratched with upper-body injuries. ¡ Tampa Bay C Brayden Point, struck in the
face by a puck Thursday, played. ¡ The Senators played their 1,000th road game.
. Duchene has 10 goals and 19 points in 18 games against the Lightning. . Stone
has three goals and 12 points during a six-game point streak.UP NEXTSenators:
Play at Florida on Sunday.Lightning: Start a four-game trip Tuesday night at
Buffalo.