San Jose’s Joe Pavelski said Sunday the penalty against the Golden Knights’ Cody Eakin that led to the Sharks’ victory in Game 7 should not have been called as a five-minute major.
“I got no issues with that play. Was it a five-minute major? No. I don’t think it was. Am I glad they called it that way? Heck yeah,” Pavelski told reporters in San Jose, California, before leaving with the team for Denver and Game 6 on Monday in their Western Conference semifinals against the Avalanche.
It was Pavelski’s first comments on the play in which he was cross-checked by Eakin into Paul Stastny, lost his balance, fell awkwardly and slammed his head on the ice.