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DETROIT -- After scoring 39 goals in their first eight games, the San Jose Sharks proved they can play pretty well defensively, too. Logan Couture scored in the shootout and San Jose beat the Detroit Red Wings 1-0 on Monday night. The Sharks (8-0-1) are the NHLs last team without a regulation loss. "We scored a lot of goals in our first eight games. Were not going to keep scoring like that," Couture said. Each goalie got a shutout for not allowing a goal in 65 minutes. Antti Niemi -- who got his 24th career shutout -- made 24 saves for San Jose and Jimmy Howard, who earned his 17th shutout, stopped 27 shots. "Not much space out there. It was very playoff like," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "Both teams a prevent-type game. ... It was a chess match, theres no doubt about it. Even on the power play and penalty kills, the teams didnt get a lot of looks." Howard praised the way his team played without the puck. "I thought we did a good job on their top guys. We didnt give them a lot of room and space. Another thing that was a positive was we didnt give up a lot of odd-man rushes," Howard said. "Thats been an Achilles heel of late for us. We did a great job of keeping the third man high in the offensive zone, making them come 200 feet. We didnt turn pucks over. Its a good sign." It was Niemis third shutout against Detroit. He also stopped Todd Bertuzzi on Detroits final shootout attempt with a spectacular pad save. It was the first game of a four-game Eastern road swing for San Jose. Detroits Brendan Smith hit the outside of the goal post with 4:57 remaining in regulation. Niemi made an outstanding save on Daniel Alfredssons shot from the bottom of the right circle 7:31 into the second period. San Jose outshot Detroit 7-4 in a scoreless opening period, in which the Red Wings killed off two penalties. "There was two pretty good teams there tonight. I thought our young D played pretty good. 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Ronaldo shows his displeasure after being substituted by Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane at Las Palmas However, while Real head coach Zinedine Zidane was criticised in some quarters of the Spanish press for the move, with Ronaldo himself visibly unhappy with the decision, Sky Sports Spanish football commentator Rob Palmer thinks the Frenchman made the right call. Ronaldo turns 32 in February and he is now at the veteran stage of his career, but the problem is he has not quite accepted that now, Palmer told this weeks La Liga Weekly podcast.He still thinks he is a young man and he parades himself round the field and that does not help him. Ronaldo scored four goals including a perfect hat-trick as Portugal annihilated Andorra 6-0 in Match Day 2 of the World Cup qualifiers When he gets to the point where he accepts that he is no longer the great Cristiano Ronaldo when he was 27, 28 and scoring 55 goals a season and has to slightly reinvent himself, like Lionel Messi is having to do at the moment, then he will maybe become more acceptable to the general public. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. You would have to say though that as a manager, he would be your problem in the changing room because you would still want to get the best out of him, massage his ego and you would want Cristiano Ronaldo in your team.But I thought it was great management by Zinedine Zidane the other week to bring him off as he was not being effective in that game. It would be foolish to get rid of him when he is 31, 32. He is not at the peak of his powers, but he is not past it yet either. Rob Palmer, Sky Sports Spanish football commentator And when you looked around the playyers and thought: Who should I bring off who is not having an impact on this game and who will raise the game of everybody else? and he brought Ronaldo off.ddddddddddddIf you can bring Ronaldo off, then that gets everybody elses backs up, as if he is going to go for the first time, and it was the first time he had been taken off tactically, then this manager actually means the business.So I thought it was great management by Zidane, even though he got hammered in the Spanish press for it at the time. Cristiano Ronaldo was far from impressed after being substituted for Real Madrid at Las Palmas If Ronaldo wants to maintain his career in the Spanish capital, though, the Portugal international - whose current deal at Real runs until the summer of 2018 - must copy the likes of Barcelona duo Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta and change his game, Palmer thinks.It is how Cristiano Ronaldo reinvents himself - he keeps coming out with: I am going to play until I am 40, I am still a great player. So he just needs to look in the mirror really, he said.But he can still be an effective player till he is 35, 36 if he reinvents himself as Xavi [Hernandez] did, as Iniesta is currently doing, as Messi has done as well.But he has been injured and maybe he came back a little bit early and maybe Real Madrid are guilty of playing him before he is ready. Once he is back in the changing room, he is on the pitch as they want him to play. Zidane (right) may need to start managing Ronaldos time on the pitch to prolong his career at the Santiago Bernabeu Equally, however, if Ronaldo is to keep playing at the highest level until the end of Real contract, then Palmer believes Zidane will need to keep managing his star mans game time going forward.He has always played the full 90 minutes when he is fit, so maybe he has to be managed a bit more and Zidane has to be that man who goes head-to-head with him, he added.But it would be foolish to get rid of him when he is 31, 32. He is not at the peak of his powers, but he is not past it yet either.You can watch Englands tour of Bangladesh, plus Premier League football and the British Masters on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy three months at half price! Also See: Ronaldo unhappy at being substituted LISTEN: La Liga Weekly Podcast Zidane: Ronaldo right to react Capello: Ronaldo Reals problem ' ' '