SAN JOSE, Calif. - Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture each scored two goals and the San Jose Sharks rebounded from back-to-back shutouts in emphatic fashion, beating the Edmonton Oilers 7-0 on Tuesday night to tie their first-round playoff series at two games apiece.

After being throttled by the younger and faster Oilers the past two games, the Sharks went back to the same successful formula that carried them to the Stanley Cup Final a year ago.

Pavelski scored on a pair of deflections, including one just 15 seconds into the game for the fastest playoff goal in team history, the previously dormant power play scored four times and San Jose held Connor McDavid off the score sheet for the second straight game. Now they will try to carry that over into Game 5 in Edmonton on Thursday night.

Patrick Marleau, Marcus Sorensen and David Schlemko also scored for San Jose, Brent Burns had three assists and Martin Jones made 23 saves for his fourth playoff shutout. It all added up to the most lopsided playoff win in Sharks history and biggest shutout win in the NHL in 10 years.

Cam Talbot was pulled after allowing five goals on 24 shots and the frustration boiled over for the Oilers with Leon Draisaitl drawing a game misconduct for spearing Chris Tierney.

Sharks coach Peter DeBoer juggled his lines in search of any kind of offensive spark, moving Marleau up to the top line with Joe Thornton and Pavelski among other changes.

It paid off immediately when San Jose scored on the opening shift. Pavelski won an offensive zone faceoff back to Justin Braun and then deflected a point shot past Talbot for his first goal of the series.

Playing with a lead for the first time all series, the Sharks were energized and dominated the play early. Even the struggling power play that had scored only once and allowed two short-handed goals in the first three games got into the action.

Pavelski slid a cross-ice pass to Couture, who took a second to gather the puck before beating Talbot with a wrister from the faceoff circle for his first goal since having several teeth knocked out when he took a slap shot to the mouth March 25 in Nashville.

Couture, who led the NHL in playoff scoring last year, missed the final seven games of the regular season and hadn't been at his usual form to start this series. He wore a cage to protect his mouth the first two games before going back to the half-visor for Game 3.

San Jose then took the game over in the second starting when Marleau scored on an early power play. Sorensen knocked in a rebound midway through the period and Couture ended Talbot's night with a wrister from the circle.

Pavelski added his second late on the period to take advantage of Draisaitl's penalty as San Jose converted four of eight power-play chances after going 1 for 14 the first three games.

That prompted chants of ''We want seven!'' from the delirious crowd and it came when Schlemko scored on the power play in the third.

NOTES: The Rangers beat Atlanta 7-0 on April 17, 2007. ... The previous fastest playoff goal for San Jose came 28 seconds into the game by Dany Heatley against Los Angeles in 2011. ... NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice opened the dressing room to lead the Sharks on the ice to start the game.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

The San Jose Sharks were all smiles on Tuesday night, and rightfully so, as the club earned a commanding 7-0 victory and squared its series with the Edmonton Oilers.

The game was the Sharks' most lopsided playoff victory in franchise history, while the loss was also the most lopsided by the Oilers in their history.

It all seems like good news for the Sharks, but their past success rate following seven-goal games in the playoffs doesn't bode well.

San Jose has hit the seven-goal mark on two other occasions during the postseason. The first was on April 30, 1999 against the Colorado Avalanche, when the Sharks won 7-3. The second game was in 2014 against the Los Angeles Kings, when they earned a 7-2 win in Game 2.

Despite those strong performances, the Sharks would go on to lose both series, the latter of which saw the Sharks win the first three games, only to lose four straight to Los Angeles.

This series is now a best of three, and the Sharks will now have to exorcise some bizarre demons in order to advance to Round 2.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Frustration was getting the better of the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.

Already down 5-0 to the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 late in the second period, Leon Draisaitl got in a pushing match in the Sharks' zone with Chris Tierney, before delivering a dangerous spear to Tierney's midsection.

The spear resulted in a five-minute major and a game misconduct for Draisaitl, while Tierney headed to the Sharks' dressing room, but later returned to the game.

San Jose would have the last laugh, as Joe Pavelski collected his second goal of the game on the ensuing man-advantage, pushing the lead to 6-0.

Of course, any supplemental discipline for the play would be a huge blow for the Oilers.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Tuesday's tilt against the Sharks is certainly one Cam Talbot and the Oilers will like to forget.

After posting back-to-back shutouts in Games 2 and 3, Talbot was pulled in Game 4 after allowing five goals on 24 shots.

The Oilers were swarmed by the Sharks from the get-go, allowing the first goal just 15 seconds into the game. It was really over before it even started.

Talbot certainly can't take all of the blame, but it's possible his lackluster performance could be a sign of fatigue after playing a league-high 73 games this season.

In fact, since the 2007-08 season there have only 25 instances in which a goaltender played 70-plus regular-season games. In only five of those instances did the goalie's team make it past the first round of the playoffs. Four of those teams were eliminated in Round 2. The fifth team was eliminated in the Conference Finals.

Laurent Brossoit took over for Talbot in the second period, which will allow the workhorse netminder to get some rest in before a crucial Game 5 on Thursday.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

The Pittsburgh Penguins didn't deserve the series sweep on Tuesday, according to head coach Mike Sullivan.

Sullivan spoke to reporters postgame, where he noted that his team's effort did not compare to that of the Columbus Blue Jackets, who earned a 5-4 victory.

"We just weren't good enough," Sullivan said, according to Sam Kasan of NHL.com. "I know we're better and we will be better. But we certainly weren't good enough tonight."

The Penguins gave up a series-high five goals on Tuesday, and were chasing the game early as the Blue Jackets jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first period.

"We were down goals and got close a couple of times, but then give up another one," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. "We put ourselves in a bad spot to have to keep coming back. We can't keep doing that if you want to consistently win games."

Luckily for the Penguins, the team still holds a 3-1 series lead and will be able to close it out back at home, where Sullivan expects a stronger effort from his club.

"We're going to go back home and reset our mindset," Sullivan said. "We've got to be more committed to play the game the right way."

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Markus Nutivaara, William Karlsson, and Boone Jenner each had a goal and an assist, and the Columbus Blue Jackets held on to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-4 on Tuesday, avoiding a sweep in the best-of-seven playoff series.

Jack Johnson and Josh Anderson also scored for the Blue Jackets, who were able to outlast the Penguins when they pushed back hard in the second and third periods and then got a short-handed goal from Jake Guenztel with 27 seconds left in the game.

Sergei Bobrovsky had 27 saves to help the Blue Jackets get their first playoff win in three years and their first-ever in regulation.

The Penguins now lead 3-1 in the best-of-seven series, which returns to Pittsburgh for Game 5 on Thursday night.

Patric Hornqvist, Ron Hainsey, and Tom Kuhnhackl also scored for Pittsburgh, and Marc-Andre Fleury - pressed into service because of an injury to Matt Murray at the start of the series - had 29 saves.

Columbus got offense from its lower lines, building leads of 3-1, 4-2 and 4-3 before Jenner poked in a goal amid heavy traffic 5:37 into the third period for a 5-3 lead. Pittsburgh got the late goal but ran out of time.

Johnson scored first for the Blue Jackets at 11:46 of the opening period when he launched a wrister from the right point into traffic that bounced off Sidney Crosby's skate and into the net.

There was less luck involved when Anderson made it 2-0 with a little over minute left in the period. He grabbed a chip pass from Karlsson, circled in from the right and beat Fleury between the pads.

Columbus went up 3-0 at 4:49 of the second when Nutivaara scored off a rebound.

Just like in Game 3 when they rallied from a 3-1 deficit, the Penguins began roaring back.

Hornqvist struck for Pittsburgh during a power play 6:43 in the second. His rebound shot from the doorstep rolled up the pad of Bobrovsky with the goalie dropped in front of the net. Ten minutes later, Phil Kessel passed the puck out to Hainsey to the far right and he beat a shielded Bobrovsky from a severe angle. The Blue Jackets were lucky to get out of the last few minutes of the period without another score from the swarming Penguins.

The Blue Jackets got a goal from Karlsson 27 seconds into the third that seemed to pump them up again. But Kuhnhackl found the back of the net on a rebound less than two minutes later to make it 4-3 before Jenner put Columbus back up by two.

NOTES: Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella scratched veteran winger Scott Hartnell on his 35th birthday, replacing him in the lineup with Lukas Sedlak, who returned from an injury. ... F Matt Calvert also was back after serving a one-game suspension for breaking his stick over the back of Kuhnhackl on Friday. .... D Kyle Quincey made his playoff debut for Columbus after D Zach Werenski was knocked out with a puck to the face Sunday. D Scott Harrington was a scratch.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

No time to waste for the San Jose Sharks.

Sharks captain Joe Pavelski netted his first goal of the playoffs just 15 seconds into Game 4, tipping a point shot by Justin Braun to grab the early lead over the Edmonton Oilers.

Pavelski's goal marked the first time in the series the Oilers have trailed, and also stopped Cam Talbot's shutout streak at 120:15.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

NEW YORK - Rick Nash and Jesper Fast scored, Henrik Lundqvist made 23 saves, and the New York Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Tuesday night to even their first-round playoff series at two games apiece.

New York's win also ended a six-game losing streak at home in the playoffs going back to the 2015 Eastern Conference Final.

Torrey Mitchell scored for Montreal and Carey Price made 30 saves.

Game 5 is Thursday night in Montreal before the series returns to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

The Rangers, who gave up the tying goal with 18 seconds left in the third period of Game 2 before losing in overtime, stopped Montreal in the final minutes in this one.

After a lackluster performance in a 3-1 loss in Game 3, the Rangers came out aggressive early in Game 4.

Lundqvist kept it scoreless as he stopped Andrew Shaw on a breakaway midway through the first period.

About a minute later, Canadiens defenseman Andrei Markov misplayed the puck along the boards and Fast grabbed the loose puck and slid it through the legs of Price for an unassisted goal at 11:39 to open the scoring.

The Canadiens tied it late in the period. Alexander Radulov eluded the check of Brady Skjei near the Rangers' bench and passed the puck to Mitchell, who started a 2-on-1 break with Shea Weber and Mitchell scored into an open net with 1:23 remaining. Radulov earned his fourth assist of the series on the play.

The Rangers controlled the play for most of the second period as the Canadiens had only one shot on goal in the first 11 minutes.

Nash gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead early in the second. Ryan McDonagh kept the puck in the zone and sent a nice pass to Nash near the front of the net and he slipped a backhand past Price at 4:28 for his second of the series.

NOTES: Looking to spark the offense, Pavel Buchnevich, who was a healthy scratch for the first three games of this series, was in the lineup for Rangers. Defenseman Nick Holden was also in the lineup. Tanner Glass, who scored in Game 1, and Kevin Klein were among the scratches. ... The Rangers are 0 for 12 on the power play in the series. ... The Rangers' previous home playoff game win was in Game 1 of the 2015 Eastern Conference Final against Tampa Bay.

Copyright © 2017 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.