Recap: San Jose vs. Nashville

By Sports Network

San Jose, CA (Sports Network) - Dan Boyle's goal with one minute remaining in regulation lifted the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 win over the Nashville Predators at HP Pavilion.

Jamie McGinn, Joe Pavelski and Devin Setoguchi also scored for San Jose, which has earned at least one point in each of its last nine games (8-0-1). Thomas Greiss allowed three goals on 26 shots in the win.

Michael Santorelli, Marcel Goc and Patric Hornqvist scored for the Predators, who have dropped two of their last three on the heels of a three-game win streak. Dan Ellis turned aside 25 shots in the setback.

The scored was deadlocked at two apiece at the start of the third period, but near the midpoint of the stanza, the visitors moved ahead. A shot from the Dan Hamhuis from the left point was deflected perfectly into the back of the net by Hornqvist from in close at the 9:29 mark.

Less than four minutes later, Setoguchi's eighth goal of the season knotted the contest at 13:26 when he rifled a slap shot past Ellis from the top of the left circle.

But Boyle provided the difference. Near the conclusion of regulation, Boyle skated down the right side, moved around a defender and fired a wrist shot from inside the circle that hit Ellis but trickled behind him and barely made it over the goal line.

The Sharks opened the scoring midway through the first period on Pavelski's second goal of the season. Patrick Marleau hustled down the right-wing side and circled behind the net. From along the goal line to the left of the net, Marleau centered the puck to Pavelski, whose quick wrister lit the lamp from the low slot.

With 1:40 to go in the opening frame, Santorelli's marker knotted the score.

The teams traded goals in the second period. After a tally by McGinn at the 2:33 mark, Goc's first goal of the 2009-10 campaign again brought the teams to a tie. Goc fired a wrist shot from a sharp angle on the left side that beat Greiss to the near side with 5:11 remaining before the second intermission.