For the fourth-straight occurrence, the San Jose Sharks dropped Game 1 during the Western Conference finals, this time falling 2-1 at the hands of the St. Louis Blues.
Coming out of this contest, it’s tough to know how to really feel about this game from a team teal perspective.
On the one hand, San Jose went toe-to-toe with the Blues in their own barn, outshooting the hosts 32-23, winning more than 57 percent of the faceoffs and completing dominating the second period.
However, the Sharks lost the special teams battle, an area they were thought to have an advantage, and had way too many giveaways including on the game-winning goal which has to be stopped.