EDMONTON – Entering Game 1 of their first round series with the Oilers, the players listed on the Sharks’ roster had a combined 1,169 games of playoff experience, second only to Chicago. They are, of course, still the defending Western Conference champions, too.
Perhaps that’s why in the first intermission, when they trailed 2-0 and were on the verge of getting pushed out against a young, hungry Oilers team playing in front of a berserk crowd, yelling and screaming in the dressing room was not required.
“I think there wasn’t much that needed to be said. There wasn’t much panic,” Joe Pavelski said.