SAN JOSE -- Hockey games always have a winning goal. In the playoff series between the Sharks and Nashville Predators, we are more likely to have a winning bodily sacrifice.
No, that doesn't mean Brent Burns will immolate his beard at center ice in Game 7. In hockey, the most painful sacrifice by players is always the choice to place legs and torsos in front of an opposing shooter just as he unloads a puck at many miles per hour.How many miles per hour? Nashville defenseman Shea Weber's stick-on-puck delivery was clocked at 108.1 miles per hour at this season's All-Star game when he won the hardest slapshot contest.