With Murray here, you have to take his eyes away.
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The one place where those players haven’t showed up so far is on the goal-scoring sheet.
Lovejoy got the Penguins on the board first, just 5:29 into the game, slapping the puck through traffic on a shot from the point after goalie Martin Jones gave up possession by fumbling the puck on the goal line.
“We’ve talked about it”, said Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who played on that 2009 team.
Donskoi’s game victor saved the Sharks from potentially going down 3-0 in the series.
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“When Hertl goes out and you can put a guy with hockey IQ, some offensive instincts like Tierney has, he’s a good play-maker”, Sharks coach Pete DeBoer said.
The Sharks’ performance in Game 4 was their best of the series. His forecheck helped set up the winning goal by Joonas Donskoi.
Fun fact: despite the Sharks’ win tonight in overtime, they have yet to hold a lead in a game this series. This time, however, it favored the Sharks in their most complete game this series. “We got a great play from Phil and Geno there to get us a big goal”. We’ve got to do that. Donskoi now leads all players in the series with three points (one goal, two assists) and demonstrated through the regular season his ability to step up as a key member of the Sharks’ offensive arsenal. The ones that have got through, we scored on some of them, [like] Justin Braun’s goal [in Game 2]. It was his sixth goal this postseason and the first overtime goal of his career. “We want the Cup” and “Let’s go Sharks” and yes even a “Sharks eat Penguins” chant serenaded the post-game NBC Sports crew seated outside the building. “The margin for error is small”.
It hasn’t been like those players haven’t performed well. The Sharks are down 2-1 in their best-of-seven series with the Penguins.
“It was electric”, said Sharks coach Peter DeBoer. Even a few shifts with Malkin couldn’t generate many chances for Pittsburgh.
Still, Darren Hersh, who runs a goalie school in suburban Washington D.C., said goalies would be better suited to limit the use of the RVH or avoid it all together. “They play so close and so tight, it’s tough to shoot sometimes”. DeBoer said he’s debating whether to move Logan Couture into Hertl’s spot on the top line alongside Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski, as he did in the late stages of the Sharks’ 3-2 overtime victory on Saturday, or leave Melker Karlsson in that spot. The average resale price for Game 4 Stanley Cup Final tickets is $963.20, down more than 25% from Game 3, and the cheapest ticket is listed from $671. He has all year for us. Conversely, several San Jose players were held shotless while Joe Pavelski was stifled to just one shot in almost 26 minutes of ice time. The Penguins blocked 38 shots alone in Game 3, including 12 from Burns. “We’re creating some chances”. “It’s just that end result hasn’t been there”.
“I don’t see us falling into the trap of playing in a defensive shell, which is usually when you allow teams to rally against you”, he said.
Step two, though, is now finding a way to get more of those shots to actually make it through to goaltender Matt Murray.
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Once again, San Jose will be forced to work without top-line forward Tomas Hertl, who will miss a second consecutive game.
