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SAN JOSE – Calgary earned a power-play goal 5:20 into the third period to lock up a 4-1 victory over the host San Jose Sharks.The win lifted Calgary into second place in the Pacific Division with 63 points. The Sharks also have 63 points and have played one more game than the Flames. Vancouver sits in fourth with 61 points, Los Angeles trailing in fifth with 60.Brent Burns, owner of the lone San Jose goal, was in the penalty box for the second time in the game for roughing at 3:28 of the third. The power play had 18 seconds left when Jiri Hudler’s one-timer from the left circle found the top right corner of the net.The Flames closed the scoring on David Jones’ shot from the redline at 18:07 after the Sharks had pulled the goaltender.San Jose plays host to the Washington Capitals Wednesday to end the three-game home stand.Calgary began the scoring on Mason Raymond’s ninth goal of the season 14:52 into the first period.Raymond controlled the puck at the Calgary blueline, speeding along the left boards before dipping into the slot for a slapshot that went past goaltender Antti Niemi.The Flames, looking for a 4-1 edge in the season series with their Pacific Division rival, went up 2-0 with 8:10 gone in the second period.Mark Giordano’s hard shot from the blueline left a short rebound that Lance Bouma controlled and jammed into the net.Burns gave the Sharks a spark with a goal in the final second of the second period.The game clock showed 3.9 seconds when Joe Pavelski won an offensive-zone face-off and pulled the puck to Logan Couture along the right boards. Couture’s low pass to Burns turned into a one-higher that flew high past defenseman TJ Brodie and a screened goaltender Jonas Hiller with 0.9 seconds to play. Burns has 12 goals for the season, trailing only Pavelski and Couture on the Sharks.NOTES: Evgeni Nabokov, who goaltended for the Sharks for 10 seasons, was obtained from the Tampa Bay Lightning for future considerations and is expected to retire as a Shark at a Wednesday noon press conference…Monday’s game drew a crowd of 17,010, the smallest attendance of the home season…Tommy Wingels came off Injured Reserve Monday and was in the San Jose line-up...San Jose finished with a 34-26 edge in shots on net.

SAN JOSE – This season’s schedule has a little more than two months to go, time for San Jose to play its final 28 games of the regular season. Saturday night’s 5-4 loss to Metropolitan Division cellar-dweller Carolina left San Jose only two points ahead of both Calgary and Vancouver in the struggle for second place in the Pacific Division.Coach Todd McLellan would have earned his 300th career victory had the Sharks been able to turn back the visitors. Instead, Carolina scored in the final minute of the first period and never trailed in winning for the 19th time in 52 games.Goaltenders Cam Ward of Carolina and Antti Niemi each brought .915 goals against averages into the game. Ward was saddled with a 12-18-4 record based on the Hurricanes’ 111 goals scored. Only Buffalo, with 97 in the net, boasted fewer goals coming into the weekend.San Jose was able to pull into a 3-3 tie in the third period with a two-goal explosion in a span of 82 seconds. Tomas Hertl netted his second goal of the game at 2:27. Logan Couture’s slapshot from the right circle left it at 3-3.Carolina regained the lead at the 15:09 mark when defenseman Andrej Sekera’s headman pass toward the San Jose net ricocheted off the skate of San Jose’s Brenden Dillon and past Niemi.Hurricane rookie Victor Rask added an empty-netter with 1:10 left in the game. Patrick Marleau completed the scoring with a lofted shot from the left flank over Ward’s shoulder with 54.3 seconds left.Though Carolina fashioned a 14-9 edge in shots on net in the first period, the first intermission looked to be a scoreless tie until the Hurricanes’ captain Eric Staal recorded his team-pacing 17th goal with 57.7 seconds left. Jiri Tiusty’s low shot from the blueline went wide of the Sharks’ net, but the carom off the endboards allowed Staal to jam the puck past Niemi at the right post.Carolina rookie Andrej Nestrasil added his second goal of the season 5:33 into the second period. Winger Alexander Semin controlled the puck at the right point before dishing to Nestrasil for the rush down the slot between defenders.San Jose’s lone goal through two periods came at the 8:26 mark. Rookie Chris Tierney outworked Carolina’s John-Michael Liles for the puck behind the Hurricanes’ net. Tierney’s backhander to Hertl at the bottom of the left circle led to a one-timer under Ward.The Hurricanes’ regained the two-goal margin when Elias Lindholm whisked the low shot from the top of the right circle inside the left post at the 10:13 mark on a power play.NOTES: The game drew 17,139…Marc-Edouard Vlasic, reportedly not feeling well prior to the game, was held out of the Sharks’ line-up…San Jose concludes the three-game home stand with games opposite Calgary on Monday and Washington Wednesday.