Any little edge just might be the difference between advancing in the Stanley Cup playoffs or going home.
And on the eve of the Vegas Golden Knights-San Jose Sharks winner-take-all Game 7 on Tuesday in San Jose, the players appear to be focused on the task at hand as witnessed in Game 6. Unlike other games in their first-round series, the Golden Knights and Sharks hunkered down, let their skating do their talking and kept the trash talking to a minimum.
The coaches, well that’s a different story, at least according to Sharks coach Peter DeBoer, who on Monday told the San Jose Mercury News Vegas coach Gerard Gallant is doing all the chirping now.