22 years ago today, the San Jose Sharks pulled off a seemingly impossible upset for the second straight season. 22 years ago today, Ray Whitney’s Game 7, double overtime winner propelled the seventh-seeded Sharks past the second-seeded Calgary Flames and into the second round of the playoffs.
Jamie Baker’s series-winning goal against the Detroit Red Wings the previous season was oft-cited as the Sharks’ biggest goal in franchise history, at least prior to San Jose’s first appearance in the Stanley Cup Final last spring. Capping off an upset over the President’s Trophy winners a season after being the worst team in NHL history is, after all, difficult to match.