SAN JOSE -- It hasn't been easy being the wife of a Shark.
Until this year, playoff time has meant ignoring wisecracks overheard in line at the grocery store, consoling their husbands after a bitter loss, and hiding their own disappointment after another early exit from the postseason.But now, as the San Jose Sharks head to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time ever, the women in teal find themselves putting up with another one of those quirky discomforts that comes along with love and marriage -- and a long playoff run -- in the National Hockey League: their husbands' longer-than-ever, scraggly playoff beards.