Desperation time for the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night at SAP Center.
The Sharks need a win to stay alive. They need to find momentum. And they appear to need to find a fountain of youth.
That was the biggest takeaway from the grueling overtime loss in Game 5 at Edmonton.
In the first period of Thursday’s game, the Sharks’ age and experience looked like a bonus. Edmonton’s young guns were flying around the ice, fueled by the manic energy of their home crowd. But the Sharks calmly and methodically neutralized all that excitement and took a 2-1 lead in the first and eventually a 3-1 lead in the second period.