SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Logan Couture scored 38 seconds into overtime as the San Jose Sharks defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Tuesday at SAP Center to snap a five-game losing streak.
Couture, in his first game at home since his Jan. 7 injury, took a pass from Evander Kane and snapped it past Devils goalie for his 15th goal of the season.
Mario Ferraro and Marcus Sorensen also scored for the Sharks.
Martin Jones, starting for the third time in five games, stopped 15 of 17 shots in the first two periods.
The Sharks were coming off a 0-4-0 road trip that saw Patrick Marleau and Barclay Goodrow traded to other teams. They were competitive in every game, but scored just six goals.
"We know that there's going to be teams that we play against that are going to have a better team on paper. We're not dismissing that fact," Sharks interim coach Bob Boughner said before Tuesday's game. "But we've got to change our expectations that we expect to win this game tonight. It's not good enough just to go out there and compete and say, well, we've got a bunch of young guys in the lineup and we're going to play hard and see what happens.
"That's not the attitude and the mindset we need."
Ferraro's goal at the 2:20 mark of the second period was the second of his NHL career and cut the Devils' lead to 2-1. Ferraro took a pass from Kane and fired a shot to the net that got past Devils goalie Cory Schneider.
As the Sharks were killing a hooking penalty to Kane, Joel Kellman took control of a puck deep in the San Jose nd raced out on a 2 on 1, skated into the Devils' zone and fed with Sorensen, who corralled the puck and fired it past Schneider for his seventh goal of the season.
Travis Zajac and Nikita Gusev scored in the first period for the Devils. Zajac's goal came after his shot on net from a sharp angle was stopped by Jones, but trickled behind him. Marc-Edouard Vlasic tried to collect the puck and clear it away, but instead knocked it over the goal line at the 11:09 of the first period.
