SAN JOSE -- Kids are not supposed to do this in the playoffs.
Come on. Two kids from Europe? Two kids--at least in terms of their hockey age--who are playing for the first time on a stage as big as the Western Conference finals?Nope. Sorry. There's no way that Tomas Hertl and Joonas Donskoi were supposed to do what they did Thursday night, when they combined to score all the goals in the Sharks' 3-0 victory.Shouldn't happen. We know this for a fact because St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock told us so.Hitchcock was answering questions after the Sharks' victory when someone asked why the Blues' own young breakout star, 24-year-old Vladimir Tarasenko, was having so much trouble getting any points against the Sharks.