DALLAS — Even though the San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars haven’t been Pacific Division bunkmates since the 2012-2013 season Mike Condon Jersey , their rivalry, which will be renewed Friday at American Airlines Center, remains a healthy one.On Nov. 8, Dallas (15-10-3, 33 points) hosted San Jose and edged the Sharks 4-3.This time around, the Stars are coming off a 4-1 win at home against Edmonton and former Dallas coach Ken Hitchcock on Monday and are 9-3-2 on home ice.Article continues below ...“We’re going to have a good effort tomorrow night (Friday) just because we’re rested up,” Stars first-year coach Jim Montgomery said after practice Thursday. “You could tell in practice today (Thursday) that we had a lot of jump.”Dallas, which has won three straight games, also figures to get a nice boost from the season debut of veteran forward Martin Hanzal, who has been sidelined since March after having spinal fusion surgery.“I expect him to help us right away Jaycob Megna Jersey Womens ,” Montgomery said of Hanzal. “Do I expect him to be crisp and sharp? No, he’s got to get into it. The more he gets into a rhythm here, the better we’re going to be as a hockey team.”The Stars have had the rare benefit of several good practice days since their last game at the beginning of the week.And Montgomery was pleased with what he saw from his team in practice on Thursday morning.“Today (Thursday), we were working on some puck possession and timing and spacing, offensive zone and neutral zone,” Montgomery said. “That was the focus.”Ben Bishop will start in goal for Dallas.San Jose (14-10-5, 33 points) defeated Carolina 5-1 on Wednesday at SAP Center, a nice bounce-back performance after the Sharks went 1-4-0 on a five-game road trip and were outscored 21-9.“Yeah, it was a good game,” San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said postgame. “I was a little worried about our energy the first game back Ryan Dzingel Jersey , but we got off to a quick start, got that first goal, which was huge. We had some bounces tonight, which we haven’t gotten a lot of lately and (Martin Jones) was great (in goal). It wasn’t a textbook game, but there was a lot of good stuff.”The Sharks, who have now won two straight and are 5-7-3 on the road, were buoyed by the return of forward Timo Meier, out the previous three games with an upper-body injury.Meier had a goal and two assists in the victory.“Yeah, it felt great (to be back),” Meier said. “It was important to get healthy. I was obviously real excited to be playing again. I had a lot of energy today (Wednesday) and think we played a great game overall.”Sharks franchise icon Joe Thornton added three assists Womens Tom Pyatt Jersey , giving him 1,038 for his career. Thornton needs two assists to tie Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne for 10th all-time with 1,040 helpers.These former division rivals meet once more in the regular season, next Thursday in San Jose. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Missing three regular defensemen, the San Jose Sharks got a complete team effort and handed the Tampa Bay Lightning their first regulation loss in 5 1/2 weeks.Evander Kane scored two goals to reach 200 for his career as the Sharks beat Tampa Bay 5-2 on Saturday night, snapping the NHL-leading Lightning’s 16-game point streak.Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski and Lukas Radil also scored for San Jose. Brent Burns had three assists, Erik Karlsson added two to extend his assists streak to 12 games, and Martin Jones stopped 19 shots.“It’s hard to take three guys out of your lineup and survive it http://www.senatorsshoponline.com/authentic-zack-smith-jersey ,” Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said. “That’s as dangerous a group as there is in the league up front, particularly their top two lines. … We knew coming in that we would need everyone’s best effort in order to have a chance to win tonight, and we got that from everybody.”The Sharks were without defensemen Justin Braun (knee), Marc-Edouard Vlasic (wrist) andRadim Simek (concussion). Braun was placed on injured reserve.“We’re fortunate, not a lot of teams have that type of depth where you can have three guys step in and play with a whole new set of pairings,” Kane said. “Credit to them, I thought we did a good job staying tight in our zone and not giving them too many Grade A looks.”Couture and Pavelski scored 34 seconds apart midway through the first period to set the tone for San Jose.Victor Hedman and Mikhail Sergachev scored for the Lightning, who had won seven straight and were 15-0-1 since a 3-1 loss to Anaheim on Nov. 27. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 28 saves.“I felt we deserved a little better fate, we hit the post three times,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “Tonight was just not our night. For 16 or 17 games it was our night. Give them credit Max Jones Jersey Womens , they skated well. Hitting three posts, when you’re on a streak, those probably go in. Tonight they didn’t. This is still a great group of guys to coach.”Couture scored his 16th goal at 9:27 of the first period and Pavelski punched in his team-leading 25th just past the midpoint of the period to give the Sharks a 2-0 lead.Hedman got his fifth with 3:47 left in the opening period to make it a 2-1 game.Kane scored on a power play at 4:23 of the second period to give the Sharks a two-goal lead again. However, Sergachev got his first of the season in his 40th game just 30 seconds later to pull Tampa Bay within one.Kane restored the Sharks’ two-goal lead with his 14th at 5:18 of the third, and Radil got his sixth with 7:40 left to cap the scoring.The Lightning were 0 for 2 on power plays.“We feel like we’re going to win every game,” Sergachev said. “It was a hell of a ride. We had some chances, but they played a heck of a game. They had their best game in the (penalty kill).”NOTES:… D Jacob Middleton made his NHL debut for San Jose. … The Sharks scored two goals on four shots in the first period. … San Jose reserve goalie Aaron Dell came in for Jones briefly after Sergachev’s goal in the second period. Dell played 1:09 and had one save. … Stamkos had an assist on Hedman’s goal. He has 21 points (13 goals, eight assists) in his last 12 games. … The Lightings’ Nikita Kucherov and Braydon Point had point streaks of 12 and eight games snapped.UP NEXTLightning: Host Columbus on Tuesday night.Sharks: Host Los Angeles on Monday night.