They played in our zone.
"The goal for any playoff team is go after the other team's top guys and be physical", Couture said.
This year's playoff tilt ends an 11-year Stanley Cup Playoff drought for the Oilers, and head coach Todd McLellan-a familiar face at SAP Center-has had a lot to do with that.
The Sharks played without star center Joe Thornton, who is day-to-day with a left knee injury. San Jose's power play was ranked 25th in the National Hockey League in the regular season at 16.7 per cent. Couture went through an entire practice Monday for the first time since being hit in the mouth by a deflected puck on March 25 against the Predators.
It was a sad ending on a thrilling night for Edmonton's playoff-starved fans.
After pulling off come-from-behind overtime game one victory San Jose Sharks will play game two against the Edmonton Oilers tonight. The Sharks are 15-6 in the last 21 meetings in Edmonton, 26-12 in the last 38 meetings and the over is 3-1-3 in the last 7 meetings.
"We were joking, we thought this place might fall, we didn't thing it would be able to handle everybody jumping up and down", said Koo.
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Connor McDavid has shown he's going to be very tough to contain, but if any team is equipped to do so, it's the Sharks. The Sharks' window to win a Stanley Cup, meanwhile, might be closing as this veteran bunch lost last year's Finals in six games to Pittsburgh.
The Sharks didn't waste time in overtime, with a wide open Melker Karlsson catching a cross ice pass from Captain Joe Pavelski to bury the victor and silence the raucous "Orange Crush" in Edmonton, leaving a stunned arena of fans sure that their heavily favored team would dominate a depleted Sharks roster. Defensively, the Edmonton Oilers are allowing 2.5 goals per game and are killing 80.7 percent of their opponents power plays. He took a pass from Mark Letestu and sped away on a shorthanded breakaway before flicking a shot past Martin Jones. Lucic then shot again through Jones's pads. The Sharks won three out of four to close the season, but that came after a stretch that saw San Jose lose eight of nine and slide from first to third in the Pacific Division. The teams each had 10 shots in the first period, but San Jose outshot Edmonton 28-7 through the next 40 minutes. Kassian scored early in the second period and McDavid doubled the lead midway through the third period.
Joonas Donskoi collected a puck behind the Oilers; net that had been rimmed around the boards by Marc-Edouard Vlasic. He coached the Sharks through 540 regular-season games and 62 playoff matches.
"We've got to find a way with the group we do have".
"It was incredible. The crowd, you could really feel the energy", Meier said of Game 1. "We talk about it all the time".
Game 2 is Friday in Edmonton, and Talbot said the Oilers' resiliency will now be tested. "The approach we're going to take is that we're going to play game 83. It was just a matter of time before the puck was going to go in".
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