SAN JOSE — The Sharks are going to get tested in a variety of ways over the next two-plus months as they go through what’s so far been their most challenging season in recent memory.
One of those ways might be how they stick together.
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It was tested Saturday after a couple of questionable hits by Tampa Bay Lightning defensemen, including one that drew the ire of the normally level-headed Patrick Marleau.
After Marleau was unceremoniously dumped into the end boards by Erik Cernak with less than two minutes left in the third period at SAP Center, he got up, and skated toward the Lightning defenseman and gave him a stiff cross check to the lower back.