It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t certain. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t decisive. It wasn’t any of the things that a March matchup between an NHL conference leader and a team seemingly destined to be watching from the sidelines in mid-April ought to be. What it was was another encouraging sign of the evolution of the San Jose Sharks toward becoming a team worthy of claiming hockey’s ultimate goal.
Saturday night’s contest against the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets started in a fashion that had to be all-too familiar for anyone used to watching the San Jose Sharks over the past several seasons. D
espite out-shooting the Jackets 29 to 13 through two periods and carrying the play through extended sequences of the first two periods, it seemed like the ...
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San Jose Finds a Way: Gritty Performance Vaults Sharks over Columbus
Posted: 7th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NHLComments Off on San Jose Finds a Way: Gritty Performance Vaults Sharks over Columbus