DENVER, Co. — After their 4-3 overtime loss to the Colorado Avalanche, the San Jose Sharks were still talking about the first period.
“I thought in the first period, we turned some pucks over, fed their rush. Got on our heels, took a couple of penalties,” Peter DeBoer said. “That was the period that they had us on their heels quite a bit.”
The Avalanche rolled, perhaps lifted by the surge from a raucous Pepsi Center crowd, outshooting the Sharks 11-5 in the opening frame.
But San Jose didn’t lose the game in the first period.