Despite playing into the wee hours Friday morning, the Sharks didn’t get what they wanted in Nashville — a Game 4 win that would have given them a 3-1 series lead.
Now they know they’ll have to return to Music City on Monday for an elimination game, which only adds to the pressure they’ll feel going into Saturday’s Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal series against the Predators.
Teams that have taken a 3-2 series lead have advanced in the Stanley Cup playoffs 78 percent of the time (283-80). That number improves to 79.3 percent when the Game 5 winner knows it would host Game 7.