PITTSBURGH --
"BREAK THE LINE."
No one wants to discuss their origin or meaning, because they're a team thing. But they go back to the start of the season and the changes the Sharks wanted to make after bottoming out the past two years: blowing a 3-0 series lead and losing in the Western Conference First Round to the Los Angeles Kings, then failing to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in 11 years.
When a fisherman hooks a shark, the shark doesn't let the fisherman just reel him in. The shark fights to break the fishing line and live another day.