Boyle scores winner in last minute

<p>SAN JOSE — Dan Boyle scored with a minute left in the third period to lift the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.</p><p>Joe Pavelski, Jamie McGinn and Devin Setoguchi also scored for the Sharks, 6-0-1 at home. Thomas Greiss made 23 saves for his second win in three games.</p><p>Michael Santorelli, Marcel Goc and Patric Hornqvist scored for the Predators, who lost for just the second time in six games. Dan Ellis stopped 25 shots.</p><p>Pavelski has scored in two straight games after returning from an injury that caused him to miss 15 games.</p><p>Patrick Marleau created the scoring opportunity when he took the puck behind the net and found Pavelski open for a 1-on-1 with Ellis midway through the first period.</p><p>The Predators tied it with 1:40 left in the first. Michael Santorelli knocked the puck out of the air in the crease and outfought Sharks forward Manny Malhotra and slipped a shot into the net. Greiss was on the ice after blocking Martin Erat's shot attempt.</p><p>The Sharks regained the lead early in the second period on McGinn's goal. Marc-Edouard Vlasic took a long shot that deflected off Brad Staubitz's stick. McGinn settled in and released a shot from the left side.</p><p>Goc, an ex-Shark, scored his first goal of the season and recorded his first point in nine games. He tied the game with 5:11 left in the second period after taking a crossing pass from Jordin Tootoo.</p><p>Nashville took a 3-2 lead when Hornqvist redirected Dan Hamhuis' shot midway through the third period.</p><p>Setoguchi, in the lineup for the first time in seven games, tied it 3-3 with 6:34 left when he steered Boyle's shot over Ellis' right shoulder.</p><h3>NOTES</h3> <p>The Sharks assigned F Torrey Mitchell to AHL Worcester for a conditioning assignment.</p><p>Marleau has 34 points in 39 games against Nashville.</p><p>Goc recorded his first points in nine games.</p><p>Sharks C Joe Thornton had a four-game point streak snapped.</p><p>Predators D Shea Weber returned to the lineup after missing two games because of a foot injury.</p><p>The Predators went 53 minutes, 50 seconds without drawing a penalty.</p>