But in the moments following the Sharks remarkable series-clinching win in Los Angeles, a brief conversation took place at center ice. As the Sharks, savoring the taste of perhaps the most satisfying victory in team history, finished shaking the hands of their antagonist turned extinguished foe, goaltenders Martin Jones and Jonathan Quick exchanged a few words.
Literally, a few words.
“Good job, good luck,” Quick, the two time Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy winner, said to Jones, his former understudy who’d completed the first series win of his NHL career as a starter.
“Good job, good luck,” said Jones right back to Quick.