PITTSBURGH — After the game's first few minutes, the snark was thick against the goaltenders of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. Matt Murray and Martin Jones each allowed two goals on the first four shots they faced, and cracks about this being a "last shot wins" kind of game against two sieves made the rounds of Consol Energy Center.
Martin Jones played the rest of the game as if he took it personally.
On a night in which thousands packed the area outside Consol not to mention inside, some with 56 years of pent-up energy stored from the last time a Pittsburgh professional team won a championship on city soil, Jones and the San Jose Sharks kept the corks in the champagne bottles.