The difference between reaching the conference finals versus the second round can be decided by a lucky bounce or call, but the San Jose Sharks avoided that situation in their dominant five-goal victory over the Nashville Predators Thursday night.
Team teal deserves a ton of credit for coming up with the win in an elimination game to advance to their first Western Conference Finals appearance since 2011. They dominated Nashville in every facet of the game and might have saved their best game of the entire season for the most important game of the season.