Remember the 14-goal, chaos-personified game that came out of the last time the San Jose Sharks and Arizona Coyotes met? OK, great, now forget everything you remembered, because this game was distinctly not that.
You might have been fooled by the opening 20 seconds, where on the very first shift and the very first shot of the game, Nick Bonino, on a pass from Andrew Cogliano and Noah Gregor opened scoring with a nifty behind-the-net play to open space up top.
Settle in folks, because that was where the excitement stopped until about the final six minutes of the entire game.