Nick Spaling and Roman Polak didn't know exactly what the future held when they were acquired by the Sharks from the Toronto Maple Leafs in late February. They just knew they were going from the basement of the NHL standings to a playoff team.
"When we got traded, we knew we were going to a good team that was going to do a lot of good things in the playoffs," Polak said. "But it's the playoffs and you never know how it's going to end up. But it ended up as the best trade you could possibly imagine because we're playing in the Stanley Cup Finals.