After eliminating a team in the playoff, the first match next season against it is always a war. But it wasn't, we had a great, entertaining game with the Sharks, where only Schneider was the difference. There was a fight between Volpatti and Winchester but they rematched because of the pre-season not a post-season revenge. I can imagine if Marleau's breakaway in the first minute had found the net, they would have executed us, but Cory made it and they couldn't boost up. When Niemi got MM's fluke goal (congrat for the 800th match in the league), I was thinking Boucher's historical SO record as a Coyote, and prayed that the goal which will end Schneider's streak don't be so foolish. Fortunately, it wasn't, Murray had a great goal. In the second, both team played extremely well, but we could find the way to score, they didn't and after the intermission we tried to keep the difference which we have reached (more or less). I think our second line was the best, Booth had very nice moves and hit the crossbar, Higgins was very dangerous in front of the net and Kes started to find his last year's solidity. All in all, it was a typical one-goal game, now we had the one more, but this San Jose is undisputedly the strongest in the Pacific. In three goals nine players had a point, and we were perfect in powerplay. (When the Sharks' fans swang their hands like a mouth of a shark this vid came to my mind)



And the comment of the game: twin brothers from the same mother. wtf? :D