Niemi played well Monday, stopping 36 of 40 shots -- as well as 11 of 13 shootout attempts -- in a 5-4 loss to the visiting Oilers. Niemi and the Oilers' Viktor Fasth duked it out in the shootout, but it was Fasth who finally emerged victorious in the 13th round after Rob Klinkhammer slipped one past the Sharks netminder. The loss snaps a three-game winning streak for Niemi, whose numbers are now at a .913 save percentage to go with a 2.55 GAA (slightly worse than his career marks of .916 and 2.37) and a 21-11-6 record this season.