SAN JOSE — Tomas Hertl’s facial expression said it all.
Moments after he was denied on a breakaway attempt — with a follow-up shot hitting the side of the Vegas Golden Knights’ net — Hertl wore a look of disbelief. After hitting the cross-bar on a first period breakaway, what else did he and his Sharks’ teammates need to do in Game 6 to catch a break and get a puck past goalie Marc-Andre Fleury?
It might be a question the Sharks — eliminated from the playoffs with a 3-0 loss to the expansion Golden Knights on Sunday — will ask of themselves for quite some time.