The six-game losing streak is finally over. It wasn’t always pretty, but for two periods it was absolutely magnificent. San Jose is back in the win column after a whole host of Sharks busted out of lengthy slumps in a 6-5 overtime victory over a woefully mediocre New York Rangers team on Tuesday night.
This doesn’t replace Logan Couture and it doesn’t assuage concerns about the play of Justin Braun and Marc-Edouard Vlasic of late, but it does show the Sharks are fully capable of playing the style of hockey we’ve become accustomed to. San Jose used four lines with (mostly) great success as the fourth line of Chris Tierney, Timo Meier and Joonas Donskoi dominated.