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Emma Raducanu again failed to take three match points as she was beaten 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 6-0 by Jessica Pegula in a hard-fought last-32 tie at the China Open.

The British number one, who lost to Barbora Krejcikova in similar fashion earlier this month, faded in a match that lasted two hours and 21 minutes.

Meanwhile, fellow Briton Sonay Kartal advanced to the round of 16 after beating Maya Joint in Beijing.

Raducanu, ranked 32 in the world, took the first set against world number seven Pegula before both players wrestled for control in the second – the usually composed American giving a shout of frustration and throwing her racquet to the floor in the fifth game.

Pegula went on to save two break points before a dramatic tie-break in which she saved three match points – two with backhand winners and the other on Raducanu’s serve – then dominated in the third set.

“It was a crazy match, ” said Pegula, who will meet Marta Kostyuk in the last 16 after she beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4 6-2.

“That was really intense. I got myself back into the tie-break and just wanted to keep the pressure on.

“To be honest, I think I got a little bit lucky on two of those where I hit those two backhand winners but, other than that I just tried to keep fighting for as long as I could.”

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — On the Wednesday before the Ryder Cup, Collin Morikawa was asked a pointed question: Which of Team USA’s stoic squad would he like to see go wild in a charged Ryder Cup setting?

He thought for a moment before settling on his answer.

“I would love to see Cam Young just throw a massive fist pump in someone’s face. I would love it,” he said.

Four days later, he got his wish.

Young led the U.S. side in Sunday singles, going off first against Team Europe’s veteran firebrand, Justin Rose. He and his teammates began the day in a 12-5 hole, and in a race to 14, winning seemed out of the question but salvaging some dignity was still a worthy goal.

It was meaningful that Young was first out. Meaningful because of his New York connections, which run deep; not only did Young grow up at Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County but his first big-time victory came in the New York State Open at Bethpage Black, which he counts among his favorite golf courses in the world.

It was meaningful because the last time the U.S. played a Ryder Cup, Young was left at home. He finished 9th on the 2023 qualifying points list but was passed over while Nos. 10, 12, 13 and 15 were chosen; Keegan Bradley’s snub was documented on Netflix while Young’s was more anonymous but no less painful. The fact that Bradley chose Young to represent the U.S. side this time around was worth something extra.

And it was meaningful because it reflected his standing on this team. In the preceding two days Young had proven himself to be the U.S. player best suited for this Ryder Cup. He’d sat on the bench for Friday’s opening foursomes but came out firing in afternoon four-ball; he played both matches Saturday and improved to 2-1-0. Because the team sessions were such a nightmare for his teammates, Young’s 6-and-5 and 4-and-2 victories served as spots of bright red. He let his clubs do the talking alongside excitable partners Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau. The scoreboard, the stats and the fans all saw the same thing: Young was playing as well as anyone on property. He earned that first Sunday tee time.

Young’s match against Rose began with a bang, a 25-footer for birdie at No. 1 that sent a jolt through the thousands lining the ropes. But when Rose won Nos. 3 and 5, Match 1 turned blue on the board — and behind him, more blue followed. Justin Thomas 2 down. Bryson DeChambeau 2 down. Scottie Scheffler 1 down. Patrick Cantlay 1 down. Five matches were on the course, the U.S. trailed in all five, and the home team’s horror show was somehow getting worse.

Then Young got hot. Birdie-par at 6-7 was enough to win both and regain a 1-up lead. Another birdie and a string of pars got him to 3 up through 12. Behind him, Young’s teammates followed his lead; a red wave began to sweep across Bethpage.

“Kind of felt like nothing could go wrong,” Young said.

But then several things went wrong, one after the next.

“Justin Rose started doing some interesting things,” Young said. “Made some putts on me. And all of a sudden just feels like I’m just going to give it away.”

Rose made birdie at 13. Birdie at 14. Birdie at 16. Suddenly he’d tied Young, and that’s where they remained heading to 18. Home-team roars still stretched out behind him, Thomas and DeChambeau and Scheffler mounting their respective comebacks. But given their precarious position, the U.S. needed every point it could.

Young hit the fairway. He hit the green. He dodged a Rose miss. And then he stepped up to a 12-footer for birdie and the win, took a final breath and sent it rolling into the center of the bottom of the cup. Young’s fist pump would have made Morikawa proud.

“I’ve been thinking about having a putt like that for a while,” Young said in an emotional post-round interview. “The way things were going halfway through the back nine today, I didn’t want that putt — and then the way things were going through 17, I was very grateful that I had a chance there.”

He added this:

“This is the biggest event that we have, really. There’s no bigger stage to play on, in my home state, a golf course that I love … that one right there I’ll remember for a long time.”

A few minutes later, when Justin Thomas matched Young’s winning birdie putt with another one of his own, Young was there to greet him with a scream and a giant hug. DeChambeau completed a 5-down comeback of his own to earn a valuable half-point. And then Young, DeChambeau and Thomas hopped on carts, racing back toward their teammates. The comeback was on.

Bradley called out the spark in his post-round presser.

“When we sent out Cam Young first from New York to lead us out, we had to have that match,” Bradley said. “He went out there in front of the whole world, in front of his home state, and made a 10-footer to beat Justin Rose who is an all-time Ryder Cupper and get to celebrate at Bethpage Black in front of everybody.”

Ultimately for the U.S. it was a memorable and valiant but losing effort. Their mountain was too tall to climb; Europe scratched out enough half-points to reach 14, then 14.5, then the 15-13 final.

We’re not used to hearing much from Young in either victory or defeat. He’s not on social media, he’s allergic to attention-grabbing and he doesn’t waste words. But when he was asked to sum up his week, Young delivered the monologue of the press conference.

“It’s been incredible,” he said. “I mean, from the moment I got the call from Keegan, you know, I feel like this group is incredibly close. We were incredibly driven to win this week. I think that’s been the coolest part of it for me is to just be one of the 12 guys that’s here playing for our country, playing for each other.”

And then he turned to his teammates, who’d started nodding.

“Y’know, that last bit there where we were making a run, I don’t know about any of you guys, but I haven’t felt anything like that playing golf before. I mean, that was truly unbelievable to watch one after the other just start making putts, fighting the way that they did. I’ve never seen anything like that, and I’ve never felt anything like that watching golf, playing golf, doesn’t matter.

“So I think it’s really just a testament to how much it means to all of us to be here and how much we all want to play well for each other. It was truly unbelievable.”

Young’s team didn’t win. The U.S. fans left inspired but ultimately disappointed. There will be days, weeks, months of second-guessing ahead. But Young left a mark on Bethpage Black — and the other way around.

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Sunday at the Ryder Cup only confirmed what we believed on Saturday night: Luke Donald is a brilliant captain and sublime tactician and we are still not sure about Keegan Bradley.

The second-guessing and American handwringing began even before Shane Lowry finished his victory dance after assuring Europe retained the cup and, as is always the case at the Hindsight Cup, Bradley’s captaincy was atop every list.

It will not help Bradley’s legacy that he ran up against the greatest captain in the history of the matches, either for Europe or the United States, or that his American team was utterly thrashed for two days of team play by a dozen Europeans that will likely go down as the Continent’s best.

Criticism comes with the job and Bradley knows this. He also knew in the honest moments that followed the American’s 15-13 loss that much of his criticism he’d come by honestly.

“We tried to set the course up to help our team. Obviously it wasn’t the right decision,†Bradley acknowledged. “I definitely made a mistake on the course setup. I should have listened a little bit more to my intuition. For whatever reason, that wasn’t the right way to set the course up.

“The greens were as soft as I’ve ever seen greens without it raining. Especially here, it can get pretty firm, and they never firmed up.â€

This American team — peppered with players who have thrived on the most demanding layouts — needed a U.S. Open-style Bethpage. At the very least, the U.S. team needed a PGA Championship-like Bethpage. Instead, the layout that Bradley & Co. concocted more resembled a Barclays Bethpage, the softer-side venue that hosted the PGA Tour playoff event twice.

Bradley hacked the rough to just 2 inches and heavy rains on the eve of the matches left unexpectedly slow greens. For a team that included Bryson DeChambeau, a two-time U.S. Open winner; Scottie Scheffler, a player whose game is built for major championships; and J.J. Spaun, the reigning U.S. Open champion, it was a glaring miss for the captain.

The softer side of Bethpage was particularly troubling during foursomes play, with the Europeans posting 5- and 7-under rounds to dominate both sessions and collect six out of eight points.

“We sat, or I did, and looked at a lot of info. We thought this was the best way to set the golf course up to win. You look at past Ryder Cups, and that’s kind of how it goes,†Bradley said. “You know, sometimes, you’ve got to make a decision on what to do, and you know, if I could go back, I probably would have changed that.â€

Europe entered Sunday singles at Bethpage Black leading by seven points before the U.S. gave the visitors everything they had in what ended a 15-13 European victory.

But short grass and soft greens were not the captain’s only faux pas.

Before this week’s competition, the Europeans had outscored the American team by six points in foursomes play while the Americans had a six-point advantage over the Continent in fourballs. With that historical context, starting with the home team’s stronger format would have seemed like the play to build moment and maximize the frenzied crowd, but Bradley began both Friday and Saturday with alternate shot.

The Europeans dominated both sessions, essentially taking the crowd out of the equation early.

Bradley also seemed married to a game plan that left the U.S. team in a 5 ½-to-2 ½ hole after Day 1. Instead of pivoting on Day 2, he went with almost the same lineup early Saturday to the exact same result, a 3-1 rout.

Collin Morikawa and Harris English — who had been rolled on Friday morning, 5 and 4, by Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood — were sent back out on Saturday and lost to the same team, 3 and 2.

Rinse and repeat.

Bradley also seemed flummoxed by the injury to Europe’s Viktor Hovland which required the captain to sit a player who had been placed in the archaic “envelope†(he chose English). There’s no easy way to make that decision, but English wasn’t the American team’s worse performer statistically and he was also an automatic qualifier, which should factor into that decision.

This is how the 45th Ryder Cup played out at Bethpage Black over the course of five sessions with Europe winning on the road, 15-13.

“I think anytime you’re the leader of a team or the captain or the coach, or whatever, we talked about this last night, you’re going to get the accolades and you need to take the blame for when things don’t go well,†he said.

To be fair, Bradley made plenty of inspired moves starting with his decision not to pick himself to play the matches. Although he should have been on the team by nearly every metric, he put the team first.

He also deftly adjusted some of his plans on the fly, like sending Cameron Young out with Bryson DeChambeau in the first foursomes match on Day 2. They rolled to a 4-and-2 victory over Matt Fitzpatrick and Ludvig Åberg for the U.S. side’s only point in the session.

Bradley could also take a modicum of credit for the spirited American comeback on Sunday, but ultimately that rally fell short giving way to the Draconian truth of being a Ryder Cup captain — all that matters is winning.

Play started at Headingley with Yorkshire advancing their first innings from 465-9 to 475 all out.

Jordan Thompson moved from 44 to 50 and was last man out to Ben Raine, drilling a catch to long-off to give the Durham seamer excellent figures of 5-76.

When Thompson reached his fifty off 112 balls, he tapped the white rose on his chest with his bat in an obvious acknowledgement of his love for his home county ahead of a winter move to Warwickshire.

Having scored a first-innings 101, Raine became the fifth man in Durham’s first-class history to hit a century and return a five-wicket haul in the same match.

And with their task clear, there was absolutely no need for adventure with the bat in their second innings.

They reached lunch at 27-1 in 23 overs, losing Emilio Gay caught behind off the inside-edge pushing forwards at Hill.

But then came the drama as Durham lost their last nine wickets for 56.

Bess had Alex Lees caught behind for 18, pushing forwards just after lunch, a beauty of a delivery to the left-hander.

And when Thompson’s seam accounted for Ben McKinney and David Bedingham, lbw and caught behind in successive overs, Durham were 62-4 in the 35th.

Hill trapped Ollie Robinson lbw with one that kept low shortly afterwards and struck again in his next over to have Graham Clark caught at backward point for his 50th Championship wicket of the season.

Durham were 76-6 and it took less than four more overs for the game to finish in deteriorating light.

Raine miscued to mid-off as he tried to hit Bess over the top before Matthew Potts was caught at short-leg and Daniel Hogg edged behind – all three wickets falling in the 44th over.

Will Rhodes was then trapped lbw by Hill to finish the game, the last four wickets falling for two runs in only 10 balls.

Yorkshire were jubilant, especially Hill with 4-14 and Bess 4-22, while Durham were disconsolate, and it will take some time to work out how they let this one get away.

Match report supplied by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay

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The Pittsburgh Penguins did not have the best start to their Friday evening pre-season tilt against the Detroit Red Wings.

But they were able to storm back in convincing fashion.

The Penguins erased a 2-0 deficit and came back to beat the Red Wings, 3-2. Connor Dewar, Robby Fabbri, and Philip Tomasino notched three unanswered goals for the Penguins en route to the victory, and goaltender Arturs Silovs entered the game midway through the second period and stopped the seven shots he faced – including a few nice saves late in the game.

Tristan Jarry started in net for the Penguins and stopped 11 of 13 shots.

“[Silovs] stood on his head there with some big saves,” Fabbri said. “We didn’t help ‘Jars’ out as much as we would have liked, but he played well as well. We can’t win without those two.”

Here are some thoughts and observations from this one:

– There are a handful of young forwards and defensemen on this training camp roster who probably deserve to, at least, have a shot at supplanting some veterans from NHL roster spots by the end of the pre-season.

But I don’t think the goaltending battle is being talked about enough.

Obviously, the injury to Joel Blomqvist – who is out for “at least four weeks” with a lower-body injury – opens up some of the logjam for the AHL and NHL spots. But Taylor Gauthier is also injured, which means the Penguins have open season on two of their affiliate goaltending slots.

As for the two NHL jobs? Again, GM and POHO Kyle Dubas said that the two best goaltenders will win the NHL roster spots. As of now, the two best goaltenders in this camp have been Silovs and Sergei Murashov.

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Normally, NHL training camp is an all-business kind of affair, and that’s exactly how it’s been at Pittsburgh Penguins’ camp this year.

While I strongly believe Jarry will begin the season at the NHL level by default – and Murashov will begin in the AHL both for developmental purposes and because of Blomqvist going down – I’m not so sure he is going to end up getting the bulk of the starts. Silovs has shown his capability so far in camp, and – while it is only fair to give Jarry a bit more time and runway to show in camp, as this was his first pre-season appearance – he has a track record of performing well in big games.

Keep a watchful eye on those two as camp progresses. They are, likely, the two NHL goaltenders to start the season. But the battle between the two will be fun to watch.

– When Dewar was acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs in a last-minute deal before the 2025 trade deadline, I didn’t really think much of it. Defenseman Conor Timmins – who was traded on draft day to the Buffalo Sabres along with defensive prospect Isaac Belliveau for a second-round pick – was the bigger piece of that initial deal, and I assumed he would have a higher impact.

But Dewar has been a nice surprise for the Penguins, and he showed out Friday. He scored a Sidney Crosby-esque backhand in the first period to give the Penguins life, and he fought Detroit’s Carson Bantle at the beginning of the third to give the team a spark.

Even head coach Dan Muse said he’s seen a little bit of everything from the 5-foot-10, 187-pound forward.

“Him and [Blake] Lizotte have gotten a lot of time on the penalty kill in the last couple of games, and they’ve done a really good job,” Muse said. “He’s a guy that gets in on the forecheck… a big goal there. That was a time in the game, too, you talk about two big momentum swing we had, and he had his fingerprints all over it. Big goal there to get us going a little bit more offensively, and then a fight there to follow it up. And he had some other big moments there I thought late in the game as well.

“Those types of things… he’s showing his ability to impact the game and swing the momentum, and he’s showing it in different ways.”

I’m not saying Dewar has been some kind of huge revelation for the Penguins, but he has been more than solid since his acquisition. He’s fiesty, he drives the net, he’s put the puck in the back of the net semi-regularly for a fourth-liner, and he’s sound defensively.

I think he’s been a really solid bottom-sixer for the Penguins.

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After a hard-fought 2-1 shootout loss to the Montreal Canadiens in their pre-season opener on Monday, the Pittsburgh Penguins looked to carry some of that momentum into their tilt against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday.

– Another couple of forwards who stood out against Detroit? Tomasino and Fabbri.

While it’s easy to point to the three goal-scorers as the standouts of the game, they truly were the best players in this one.

Tomasino is someone who really needs to have a strong camp for the Penguins. This was his second game of the pre-season, and he has looked better and better. He was making an impact from the jump on Friday, creating scoring chances and hovering around the slot and net-front areas – and he also led the team in shots on goal with five.

Those are the kinds of things – as well as honing in the details – that Tomasino needs to continue doing in order to solidify his spot on the NHL roster.

I feel that Fabbri has had a pretty good camp so far, and his middle-drive to the net leading up to his goal was refreshing to watch. He’s almost always one of the hardest-working players on the ice, and he is a relentless forechecker with a little bit of bite – as well as a scoring touch.

The former first-round pick (21st overall in 2014 by the St. Louis Blues) was signed to a paid tryout (PTO) contract prior to training camp. Yes, there are a lot of young forwards in the mix for roster spots, and there are a few injuries to veterans at the moment as well. Making the NHL roster out of camp is probably an uphill climb for Fabbri.

But, so far, I think he’s earned it. He will have to come out strong for the rest of the pre-season, though, to really make a strong case for himself.

– Saturday is Fleury day. Everyone in the city of Pittsburgh – including Fleury’s longtime teammates and good friends in Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang – is looking forward to it, and PPG Paints Arena is expected to be a packed house.

Get there early, folks. There is more construction around the arena than there was last season, and it’s going to be nuts down on Fifth Avenue tomorrow in celebration of an all-time great.

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When the Pittsburgh Penguins signed goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to a paid tryout (PTO) contract on Friday, along with that came the announcement that he’d be appearing in one final pre-season game in Pittsburgh on Sept. 27 against the Columbus Blue Jackets before officially retiring from the NHL.

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Derbyshire were closing in on a huge victory against Kent when bad light forced a premature end to day three of their County Championship match at Canterbury.

Kent were 135-5 in their seconds innings, still 291 behind, after Luis Reece ripped out their top order with 4-33.

That came after Jack Morley took 5-99 as the visitors dismissed Kent for 271 in the first innings, a lead of 427.

Ekansh Singh and Ben Dawkins both hit career-best scores of 71 and 61 respectively, but when the former was out Kent’s last four wickets went for just nine runs.

Derbyshire enforced the follow-on and Reece reduced them to 20-3 before Joey Evison and Ben Compton offered some resistance. Reece eventually got Evison for 52, but Compton was unbeaten on 55 when the light failed.

The lights were on when play began on time, with Kent on 117-2.

Morley, who removed nightwatcher Michael Cohen with the final ball on day two, struck again in his first full over of the morning, getting Jaydn Denly lbw for a five-ball duck.

Ekansh was given a life when Wayne Madsen couldn’t cling on to a slip catch after he flashed at Ben Aitchison, but Dawkins was strangled as soon as Zak Chappell returned from the Nackington Road End.

Ollie Curtiss got his first first-class runs, but Morley had him brilliantly caught by Martin Andersson at midwicket for 14, leaving Kent on 217-5 at lunch.

Morley claimed his fifth in style by clinging on to a sharp return catch from Ekansh at the second attempt and in doing so he became the first Derbyshire spinner to claim five wickets at Canterbury since Les Townsend in 1931.

There was raucous applause from The Nackington Road End when Joey Evison hit Harry Came for successive boundaries to earn Kent a solitary bonus point, but he then slashed Reece to Aneurin Donald at first slip, before Aitchison got his second strangle of the day when Harry Finch flicked him behind for 14.

Corey Flintoff went for a second-ball duck, hitting Aitchison straight to the sub fielder Nick Potts at square leg and Matt Parkinson lasted four balls before he edged Reece to Wayne Madsen, who took an outstanding one-handed grab at second slip.

There was worse to come as Reece bowled Dawkins for nought with the second ball of the second innings and then had Denly caught behind for four in his next over.

Reece got his third of the innings when Ekansh was caught behind for four, but Compton and Evison steadied things.

The latter was dropped by Amrit Basra off Chappell when he was on 28 in the final over before tea, at which point Kent were 61-3. He was dropped again on 52 when he drove Dal to midwicket, but Donald put him down, apparently while celebrating a catch he hadn’t actually taken.

Donald’s embarrassment was fleeting as Evison chipped Reece to Andersson in the next over and Dal then bowled Curtiss for four but Compton swept Morley for four to pass 50 and bad light stopped play at 17:39 BST, with eight overs remaining.

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The San Jose Sharks hosted the Vegas Golden Knights in their first preseason action of the 2025-26 season on Sunday night.

In the first period, we got our first look at head coach Ryan Warsofskyâ€s special teams units. Egor Afanasyev was sent to the penalty box for tripping at 5:20, and the penalty kill held strong. There were a few interesting names getting time as well. Sam Dickinson got a shot on the blue line, while Michael Misa and Will Smith were paired together on the penalty kill as well.

Alex Nedeljkovic made a phenomenal save while shorthanded as well, denying Raphael Lavoie on a cross-crease attempt. Misa was tripped up by Cole Schwindt at 8:14 in the first period, making a nice falling pass and drawing a penalty. Quentin Musty had a great chance off a pass from Dickinson as the penalty expired, but was denied by the Golden Knights†22-year-old goalie, Carl Lindbom.

One play that stood out to me early was off of an offensive zone turnover by the Sharks. Vegas attempted to break out of their defensive zone, and Pavol Regenda pulled off a perfectly timed stick lift to dispossess the Golden Knights and regain the puck in a dangerous area.

Warsofsky specifically said he was interested in seeing what Anthony Vincent brought to the table after the non-game groupâ€s morning skate, and it was clear why. He was making smart plays and creating some chances off the rush early on. With that being said, he did make a major error in the second period and was less noticeable as the game went on.

After the first period, it was still a 0-0 deadlock, but the Golden Knights led 9-4 in shots.

Early in the second period, there were a couple of defensive plays that certainly stood out. Nick Leddyâ€s speed is still dangerous, as he rushed back and closed out a Golden Knights zone entry attempt, allowing the Sharks to regain possession. Dickinson also had a great poke-check denying a rush attempt by Vegas forward Brett Howden.

Afanasyev drew a penalty just over seven minutes into the second period, and it didnâ€t take long for the Sharks power play to take advantage. Michael Misa won the faceoff to Tyler Toffoli, who found John Klingberg on the point. Klingberg fired it and found the back of the net through a screen, breaking the deadlock and giving the Sharks a 1-0 lead.

Vegas made a goaltending change shortly after the first goal in an attempt to split time between Lindbom and Jesper Vikman. Lindbom played a total of 31:29 before Vikman took over in the crease.

Jeff Skinner was a major standout in the second period. He created space for himself early in the period and was denied on a rush opportunity. He then scored right before the end of the period, when Will Smith made a great backhand pass to the slot. It landed on Dickinsonâ€s stick, who found Skinner in front of the net, making it 2-0 for the Sharks. Itâ€s important to note that right before getting the secondary assist, Smith was hauled down in the defensive zone and drew a penalty.

Misa took a tripping penalty 11:52 into the second period. Near the end of the penalty, the Sharks were called for too many men, giving the Golden Knights a short 5-on-3 opportunity. The San Jose penalty kill would prevail, and Vegas remained without a goal through two periods.

Toffoli toe-dragged around the Vegas defense early in the third, but after walking in, he was denied by Vikman on the backhand attempt.

Zack Ostapchuk was called for interference with 7:31 remaining in regulation, giving Vegas a golden opportunity to get back in the game. That opportunity would be wasted though, as the Sharks’ penalty kill improved to 4-for-4 on the night.

Despite a late push by the Golden Knights, the Sharks were able to maintain the shutout and, after an empty net goal by Toffoli, they walked away with a 3-0 victory to kick off the preseason.

Nedeljkovic was tested quite a bit early on, but that faded away in the latter half of the game. He made quite a few key saves including a late-game breakaway by Alexander Holtz. So far, he has looked like a solid addition for the Sharks. Considering thereâ€s still uncertainty about how well Yaroslav Askarov will play this season, Nedeljkovic seems like heâ€ll certainly add some stability in the crease.

Philipp Kurashev also looked very solid, making smart plays throughout the night, and overall being in the right spot at the right time.

Quentin Musty was noticeably faster, and his offseason work was paying dividends. Misa was another prospect who definitely didn’t look out of place, he’s adapting to the professional game very quickly and seems primed to have a strong rookie season if what we’ve seen so far continues into the regular season. Dickinson is in a similar situation, as he looked very good as well.

The Sharks will have their second preseason game of the season on Friday, as they once again face the Golden Knights.

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