When a team is trailing three games to none, there really is no need to worry about anything else.
"For us, it was not your average, normal goal, I think", Boudreau said. "Now we think about the next one, that's all".
After back-to-back overtime games, this one remained scoreless until 5:49 into the third, when Erik Karlsson's slap shot deflected off Rask to his stick side.
The Blues' goaltender Jake Allen has played a near-perfect three games. Allen then got stuck behind the net and could not get back in time to be in a position to defend the shot.
Captain Alex Pietrangelo described the Blues' first-period play as "casual".
"Just threw it on the boards like I usually do", Allen said.
"The biggest thing for me is we have opportunities in the first period to shoot the puck, and we're looking for a different play".
"Whether it was lack of desperation or nerves, we were on our heels". "We need to adjust that and try to cheat more too". And at the end of the game, we look up at the scoreboard and hopefully we're ahead. We couldn't grab it back.
"It's tough to handle really, none of us expected this".
"We'll certainly take it, a fumble on his part", Coyle said. "We used that momentum the whole way". The Sharks followed that with a 7-0 win before blowing a two-goal lead in a 4-3 overtime defeat in Game 5.
Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner, who has missed the past three games with an upper-body injury, is "progressing" but still day to day, according to Trotz.
That was more than enough support for Dubnyk, who wasn't going to let the Wild lose on this night, capping his shutout with a 12-save third period as the Wild held on for the win. But he went through a 27-game stretch from early January to early March when he scored only one goal, and Boudreau didn't hesitate to hound him for it. That was the only thing that mattered.
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Allen, whose opening-game overtime performance set the tone for the series right out of the gate. The Sharks end up in third place in the division again and an early exit from the playoffs.
It was a disappointing finish for a team that felt it could go on a long Stanley Cup Playoffs run.
Heading into Game 4, which the Wild won 2-0 to stay alive, Allen had stopped 114 of 117 shots in the series for a.974 save percentage.
"We knew it wasn't going to come easy, it hasn't come easy for us", Boston forward David Backes said. "The decision-making was a little slower today".
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DUCKS 3, FLAMES 1: Patrick Eaves and Nate Thompson scored within a 1:26 span in the first period and Anaheim completed a four-game sweep of Calgary.
"We had a chance to wrap it up at home and didn't make the most of it", Allen said.
Zach Hyman, James van Riemsdyk, Auston Matthews and Tyler Bozak scored for Toronto, which was coming off a 4-3 overtime win on Monday night. "Back to Minnesota, regroup tomorrow and go at it".
"It was huge", Boudreau said. They continued on to won game three, also in regulation. "It's still going to be an uphill battle".
The Blues have said that Wild players "cheat" during faceoffs and made it clear to officials, thus the number of delays on faceoffs throughout Game 4.
Yeo has made some smooth moves beyond that this month, though, working Vladimir Sobotka into the lineup right before the playoffs upon his return from a three-year hiatus in Russian Federation and returning Paul Stastny to the first line on Saturday following a 14-game injury absence.
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