SAN JOSE — As much as the Sharks needed Joe Pavelski, Martin Jones and Joonas Donskoi to beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Wednesday in Game 7 of their second round playoff series at SAP Center, they also needed the eagle eyes of Dan Darrow.
Immediately after it appeared that Colin Wilson had tied the game 2-2 at the 7:49 mark of the second period, Darrow, the Sharks’ video coach, notified coaches on San Jose’s bench that the Avalanche’s Gabriel Landeskog might have been offside.
The Sharks believed that before the puck had entered the Sharks’ zone after a giveaway by Barclay Goodrow, Landeskog was still inside the blue line.