The San Jose Sharks looked like they’ve developed another star

ANAHEIM Youth Colin Miller Jersey , Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks looked like they’ve developed another star.Timo Meier scored twice, had a third goal nullified after an offside review and added an assist Sunday night to lead the Sharks to a 4-3 overtime victory against the Anaheim Ducks.His second goal came at the 2:12 mark in OT, finishing off a mad scramble in front of the net. He now has a career-high, eight-game point streak.“It was a big win by us,” Meier said. “We stuck with it. We stayed positive and got two huge points.”Logan Couture and Rourke Chartier also scored for the Sharks, who’ve won four of their last five. San Jose goalie Martin Jones stopped 27 of Anaheim’s 30 shots on goal.Meier, 22, was San Jose’s first-round pick (ninth overall) in the 2015 draft. He scored 34 goals last season, his first full season with the Sharks.After starting 5-1-1, the Ducks suffered their fifth consecutive loss. They’ve surrendered 19 goals in the five losses.Sunday the Ducks got two goals from Pontus Aberg and one from Josh Manson. It was the first goal of the season for Aberg and the first multi-goal game of his three-year career.“I got a lucky bounce on the first goal,” Meier said. “It was a confidence builder. It’s been a while since I’ve scored in this league. I’ve shown I can (score) in the American (Hockey) League.”Goalie John Gibson stopped 45 of San Jose’s 49 shots.Anaheim looked lethargic early in the game Womens Deryk Engelland Jersey , falling behind 3-1 to the Sharks before finding some spark.Couture put the Sharks up early in the first period with a wrist shot, but Manson answered less than 2 minutes later with his own short wrister. It was Manson’s first goal of the season.The Sharks then took control, getting goals from Chartier and Meier. Meier’s first attempt at a second goal was erased when Ducks coach Randy Carlyle asked for a review and the Sharks were ruled offside.“If we had a break it was when they were offside on the goal,” Carlyle said. “It kind of turned things in our favor, and we started to play. Question is, what were we doing in the first 30 minutes that was so much different than the last 30?”Aberg took an assist from Ryan Getzlaf and sent it past Jones for his first goal late in the second period. His second goal was a thing of beauty. This one was an unassisted, Aberg weaving the puck back and forth seven times and finally around San Jose’s Joakim Ryan and into the net.“Their (defenseman) turned his back after my first move,” Aberg said. “I tried to pull it back. It worked out.”That tied the game 3-3 and sent it into overtime.Meier’s second, second goal ended it. After a scramble in front of the Anaheim net, Gibson appeared to have the puck in his left glove. But instead of burying the puck, he flicked it out and went to Meier James Neal Jersey , who drilled it past him for the game winner.“I thought we deserved to win,” said Sharks coach Peter DeBoer. “There was a big swing in the second period when our goal was disallowed and then they got the ‘seeing eye’ one.“I thought we had an opportunity there to probably put them away and we wouldn’t have come down to what it did, but that’s hockey. You gotta give them credit for hanging around. Gibson gave them the chance to do that.”NOTESBrent Burns assisted on Couture’s goal, and like Meier, now has a career-high, seven-game point streak. . Anaheim’s Adam Henrique assisted on Manson’s goal, leaving him one point shy of 300 for his career. . Sharks are now 36-26-2-5 in their career at Anaheim. . San Jose has scored points in its last six games.UP NEXTSharks: Return home Tuesday to host the New York Islanders.Ducks: Remain at home to play the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday. A year after Mike Babcock told arena staffers in Washington he’d see them a few days later for Game 7, John Tortorella claimed his Blue Jackets would be back after winning Game 6 back in Columbus.Now the trick is doing what Babcock’s Toronto Maple Leafs couldn’t last year: stave off elimination from the Capitals.”It’s about finding a way to win a hockey game right now,” Tortorella said Sunday. ”There are so many ways of winning and losing in playoff hockey, so many ebbs and flows. That’s just the way the game is.”Toronto is in the same spot as Columbus, down 3-2 in its first-round series against the Boston Bruins with Game 6 at home Monday night (7 p.m. EDT Jonathan Marchessault Jersey , NBCSN). The Maple Leafs held off a significant surge from the Bruins on Saturday night to avoid being eliminated in five and send the series back across the border.”You got to look forward – there’s no sense and no good in looking back,” forward Connor Brown said. ”We’re going back to (Air Canada Centre) where we love to play. Our fans are going to be excited so right now we’re all just thinking about Game 6.”Game 6 in the Bruins-Maple Leafs series comes after Boston took a 3-1 lead in the absence of suspended Toronto center Nazem Kadri. Goaltender Frederik Andersen needed to make 42 saves to keep the Maple Leafs alive as they hope to avoid another first-round exit.The Blue Jackets are trying to do the same in their Game 6 Monday (7:30 p.m., CNBC) after losing to the Capitals in overtime Sunday in Game 5. Four of the five games between Columbus and Washington have gone to OT compared to one total in the other seven first-round series.”It’s been a crazy series,” Capitals forward Brett Connolly said. ”So much is happening. Calls and OT – it’s been fun. I think guys are enjoying it. It’s pretty nerve-wracking, but we’re going to keep pushing forward here. We know we have a good team. They have a good team, as well. It’s not going to be easy.”It’s rarely easy for the Capitals, who are 2-5 in their past five chances to eliminate an opponent and 6-11 overall in those situations in the Alex Ovechkin era. They’re also 2-5 over that time in Game 7 at home, which they’d like to avoid another incarnation of Wednesday.This is the same situation Barry Trotz’s team was in last year – an overtime-filled first-round series against Toronto – and it wrapped things up in six.”If you have a chance to eliminate a team, you have to have that killer instinct,” Trotz said. ”You have to have that ability to close out a team. And it’s the toughest game to win because the other team is desperate. Their backs are against the wall. They’re there. They’re going to give their absolute max effort.”No one doubts max effort from the Blue Jackets or the Maple Leafs staring down elimination. Columbus outshot Washington 16-1 in the third period of Game 5, and while that kind of ice-tilting onslaught is unlikely Marc-Andre Fleury Jersey , the Blue Jackets are going to try to push the pace and ratchet up the pressure on the Metropolitan Division champions after blowing a 2-0 series lead.”The belief in this room is incredible,” captain Nick Foligno said. ”There’s no better motivation than what we’re facing.”Tactically, the Blue Jackets need to cash in on the power play after going 0 for their past 13. Goaltender Braden Holtby and Washington’s penalty kill have been the difference in the series.”The penalty kill has been a major factor for us in the last few games,” Trotz said. ”I think as a group, they’ve all stepped up. I don’t think I can single out anybody. They’ve all stepped up. The penalty kill is as good as the five guys that you have, your four and your goaltender. They’ve been very committed there.”WAITING IT OUTThe Vegas Golden Knights and San Jose Sharks will meet in the second round of the Pacific Division bracket, while the Winnipeg Jets await the winner of the Nashville-Colorado series. In the East, the Atlantic Division-champion Tampa Bay Lightning finished off New Jersey on Saturday and will face Toronto or Boston in the second round.—AP Sports Writers Mitch Stacy in Columbus, Ohio, and Jimmy Golen in Boston contributed.—