The San Jose Sharks were sluggish in the first period while playing on back-to-back nights.

That all changed in the second.

After the Sharks fell behind by a goal in the opening frame, Joe Pavelski scored three times and set up another goal as the Sharks snapped a two-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the struggling Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.


"I think after back-to-back nights and not having a morning skate and things like that, you're probably going to be a little sluggish," said Sharks captain Joe Thornton, who had two assists. "We continued to get better and better and it was a good way to end the night."


The Sharks' power play came in ranked 23rd in the NHL and had gone just three-for-35 in its last 10 games.

They were 3-for-3 against the Oilers.

"The numbers aren't that important, it's when they come and how they come," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "We've had nights like this, and it just hasn't gone in. When you look at the power play standings and the numbers and that type of stuff, you panic over it outside the room, but not inside the room.

"We finally got a reward for playing basically the same way that we have."


"We wanted to come back and play solid after our last couple games and get back to the stuff that we had been having some success with," Oilers captain Andrew Ference said. "The power play chances they got, they jumped on and put us behind the eight ball. I think our five-on-five hockey was light years better than our last game. That wasn't too tough to beat, though."

The Oilers started the scoring just over four minutes in when Perron went around Tyler Kennedy before putting a shot past Antti Niemi. It was Perron's team-leading 26th goal.

San Jose tied it 6:28 into the second on Pavelski's first goal of the night. Ben Scrivens made the initial stop on a shot from the slot by Marleau, but the rebound angled to Pavelski at the side of the net for his 35th goal.


"I think we've been bad for a long time and in the last few games we've created a little bit of momentum on it," Pavelski said of the power play. "It hasn't been one game and then take a couple of games off, we've been consistent on our opportunities, and tonight it just finally went in for us."



Pavelski finished his third hat trick of the season with seven minutes left in the third. Pavelski's four-point night gave him 71 points on the season.


