Maroon, traded from Anaheim last season, has been playing on a line with McDavid and Draisaitl for much of the year, although he got bumped down the lineup for the speeder Drake Caggiula as the San Jose series progressed.
But the hero of this series was very clearly Mr. Allen, whose opening-game overtime performance set the tone for the series right out of the gate.
Thornton headlined the list of injured Sharks who tried their best against an upstart Edmonton team in a defensive-minded series that featured four one-goal games, two contests decided in overtime and the decider that was also a one-goal difference until inside the final second of play.
Thornton had surgery Monday to fix the injury.
Thornton spoke to the media before DeBoer revealed the severity of the injury, and Thornton downplayed the problem, calling it "the normal stuff that hockey players deal with". San Jose almost tied the game on a power play about four minutes later, but a shot by Joe Pavelski hit both the crossbar and a post.
"My gut feeling is we ran out of gas in the last month", coach Peter DeBoer said. The third option is to trade a high-value player like Joe Pavelski or Logan Couture while at their primes to stock up on picks, but I'd be absolutely floored to see the team go into an actual rebuild. I know what a lot of these guys were playing through.
"I'd like to think that's all I left him, but I'm sure I left him more than that". "Until his level drops where he has to take a reduced role, that's not even on my radar". When the penalty to Caggiula expired, the Sharks dropped to 5 for 23 on the power play for the series, with four of those goals coming in Game 4, a 7-0 San Jose rout. The Rangers join the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2nd round, awaiting the winners of the 2 remaining series to see who they play next.
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Mr Wang said that whichever side provoked a conflict "must assume the historic responsibility and pay the corresponding price". The North has owned up to one such facility, at its Nyongbyon nuclear complex, but the USA government assumes it has more.
"What makes people think that people from out of town are going to want to come to Edmonton if they do this to people that live here?" said Wojtowicz. If the Sharks can contend for a Stanley Cup next year, Doug Wilson's decision making is obviously quite a bit different than if they can't.
"When I initially shot it I turned around and saw it came out weird", Pavelski said.
"It's going to be an exciting series and I'm ready for the challenge".
After having no points in the first four games and getting ejected in Game 4 for a spearing penalty, Draisaitl played a big role in the final two wins with a pair of assists, including one on the OT victor in Game 5, and the first goal in the clincher. The Sharks end up in third place in the division again and an early exit from the playoffs. His 50 points were his fewest in a non-lockout season since he was a teenager in Boston in 1998-99. "They haven't lost in 18 straight games". We knew they were going to bring pressure.
"Those five guys battled really hard and it was taxing". Every day they put the work in.
They won despite a lineup of young players, and even some veterans, with little to no playoff experience at the National Hockey League level.
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