A holiday break couldn’t have come soon enough for the San Jose Sharks and the Vancouver Canucks.After a lackluster outing Womens Joonas Donskoi Jersey , the Sharks close their longest homestand by looking for another win over the struggling Canucks on Friday night.San Jose (11-7-4) lost for the second time in three games Tuesday dropping a 4-3 decision in overtime to the Edmonton Oilers. Coach Peter DeBoer noted that the team appeared to take the night off.Article continues below ...“We’re scoring some goals, but tonight’s a disappointing one because I thought had we got a little bit better effort from everybody, from 20 guys, we should have got two points,” he said after the club gave up three leads. “We didn’t have enough participants tonight. Didn’t play well enough for long enough stretches.”But the Sharks have feasted on the Canucks in recent years. San Jose is 9-0-1 in its last 10 overall against Vancouver, including five consecutive victories at SAP Center.“This league doesn’t allow you to get frustrated for too long,” DeBoer said. The Sharks are one point behind the Calgary Flames for the Pacific Division lead.Offensively, San Jose is being carried during the homestand by its captain. Joe Pavelski, the reigning NHL Third Star of the Week, has six goals and four assists over the last five games. However Justin Braun Jersey Kids , he’s posted just seven assists in his last 10 games versus the Canucks.With a team-high 13 goals, Pavelski — whose contract is up after the season — is on pace for career-best 48.Vancouver (10-12-2) resumes its California road trip looking for answers. With a 4-3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday, the Canucks have lost six straight in regulation and seven in a row overall.“I think that’s the most frustrating part is that we’re in every single one of those games and we’re playing well,” said center Bo Horvat, who had a goal and an assist and leads the team with 21 points (11 goals, 10 assists).One reason for Vancouver’s slide is the recent output by budding star Elias Petterson. In his first nine games, the rookie center registered 15 points, including nine goals. But since his five-point effort in a win over the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 2, Petterson has only four points (three goals, assist) in nine games.The 20-year-old Swede still leads the club with 12 goals.On defense Youth Kevin Labanc Jersey , Jacob Markstrom has a 3.69 goals-against average and .897 save percentage while losing six straight starts and frustration may be setting in.“I feel like we shouldn’t be this many games (with) consecutive losses, but we’re here,” he told the Vancouver Sun. “We’ve got to find a way. We’ve got to get together as a team and we need to get some points on this road trip. The train is leaving the station pretty soon here, so we need to get going.”Markstrom is 2-4-1 with a 3.74 GAA and .882 save percentage all-time against the Sharks. Backup Anders Nilsson was activated Wednesday after missing 12 games with a broken finger, but he’s given up 11 goals on 93 shots while losing each of his last three starts this season.The Canucks have also surrendered at least one power-play goal in each of their last six games. Vancouver’s 20 power-play goals allowed are third-most in the NHL.With 1,033 career assists, San Jose’s Joe Thornton needs one more to move past Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux for 11th on the all-time list. CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Johnny Gaudreau didn’t let frustration get the better of him on Friday.After ringing a shot off the crossbar and hitting a pair of posts, Gaudreau scored the eventual game-winner on the power play at 7:44 of the third period as his Calgary Flames beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1.“After hitting that many posts, crossbars http://www.sanjosesharksteamshop.com/authentic-logan-couture-jersey , I think they’d be frustrated as well,” said Gaudreau, who backhanded a pass from linemate Elias Lindholm past Kings defenseman Drew Doughty and goalie Calvin Petersen. “It was just nice to finally put one in there.“If I was going to get one, it was going to be a greasy one like that. It was good to get the lead there, on the power play too. We worked on it a little bit in practice the other day.”Mikael Backlund finished with two goals and an assist and Sean Monahan also scored for the Flames, who lead the Pacific Division standings with 32 points, one ahead of the Anaheim Ducks. Matthew Tkachuk and Elias Lindholm each had two assists.Goalie Mike Smith made 13 saves for his second straight win and improved to 7-7-1.“It was a pretty boring game to be honest,” Smith said. “But saying that, that can lead to some inconsistencies in your game and I thought our guys did a really good job of sticking with it.“We were skating and getting the puck in the offensive zone and wearing them out on the second of back-to-backs. Great composure by our group to stick with it. It was a weird game and we found a way to win.”Adrian Kempe scored the Kings’ lone goal. Los Angeles lost its second straight and was coming off a 3-2 loss at Edmonton on Thursday.“We knew that was going to be a bit of a challenge,” said L.A. coach Willie Desjardins in regards to playing on back-to-back nights.“I thought we had a good first period Martin Jones Jersey , though. I thought our guys skated well. We didn’t hit the net, so we didn’t get the shots, but we had some good chances.”After giving up an early goal, rookie Kings goalie Calvin Petersen finished with 33 saves.“For a young player, he’s been really quite remarkable to come in with his composure,” Desjardins said. “He gives up that early one which could throw anybody off their game. It didn’t. He stayed with it and was solid throughout the game.”Calgary opened the scoring 36 seconds into the first period when Backlund let a harmless-looking shot go from the top of the faceoff circle and beat Petersen over his left pad.Although the Flames outshot Los Angeles 9-4 in the opening 20 minutes, they weren’t able to get any more pucks past Petersen, who slid across his crease to deny another scoring opportunity by Backlund with 1:24 remaining before the first intermission.Less than a minute before Backlund’s late opportunity, Smith made a stick save to thwart a chance from the slot by forward Dustin Brown.Gaudreau nearly put the Flames up 2-0 during an early power-play chance in the second period, but his shot from the slot rang off the crossbar.The Kings pulled even at 13:41 of the second on a goal by Kempe Womens Melker Karlsson Jersey , who scored off a pass from Austin Wagner from behind the net.Gaudreau had another great chance to score late in the period when he made a couple moves behind the net before his wraparound attempt went along the goal line and off the far post.Gaudreau then rang another puck off the post early in the third before finally backhanding a shot past Petersen during a Calgary man advantage, putting the Flames up by a goal.“I don’t think it should’ve been a 1-1 game going into the third there with so many chances and we couldn’t find the net,” Gaudreau said. “It was nice to get rewarded there in the third.”Backlund and Monahan added a pair of empty-net goals in the final minute of the game to seal the victory.NOTES: Lindholm played in his 400th NHL game. . L.A. forward Ilya Kovalchuk missed the game with an ankle injury. After recording five goals and nine assists in his first 14 games with the Kings, Kovalchuk hasn’t recorded a point in his last 11 outings.UP NEXTKings: Home against Carolina on Sunday.Flames: At Chicago on Sunday.