SAN JOSE — Give Tomas Hertl credit.
He believes in his team, he expressed it without reservation and predicted a Sharks victory in Game 6. The 24-year old Czech also backed up his talk by being the best Shark on the ice at SAP Center Sunday as he was throughout most of the series.
But Hertl’s will to win wasn’t enough to get the Sharks past a Vegas Golden Knights team that boasts all the ingredients — goaltending, speed, depth scoring — needed to take a serious run at winning the Stanley Cup.
Here’s what we learned as the Sharks got eliminated from the playoffs by dropping a 3-0 decision to the Knights in Game 6.