Even a great team must steal a win here and there.
Because of a flu bug going around the dressing room, Peter DeBoer acknowledged at morning skate, “On a normal night, we’d have great energy. Tonight, I’m not sure. We’ll have to find a way.”
The San Jose Sharks found a way in a 5-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens, despite a less-than-stellar first 40 minutes.
“We turned over a lot of pucks,” Joe Pavelski observed of the first two periods, which saw San Jose outshot 29-15. “We had a lot of shifts where it was two, three, four times, we couldn’t get it out of their end.