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How Sharks' third-period struggles have sunk team's NHL playoffs hopes

SAN JOSE -- The Sharks keep finding new ways to lose.

Of their 25 regulation losses this season entering Wednesday night's game against the visiting Vancouver Canucks at SAP Center, precisely zero of them came in games in which San Jose held a lead going into the third period. 19 times had the Sharks taken an advantage into the second intermission, and they were 17-0-2 in those contests.

So much for that.

Where there was once a zero, there is now a one. San Jose never trailed through the first two periods Wednesday night and took a 2-1 lead into the third period behind goals from Tomas Hertl and Brent Burns.