San Jose Sharks Will Advance To the Third Round

A bold statement to be sure, but a month ago I picked them to face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Cup Final.

San Jose is a team whose time has come, mostly because it has to. Several key members of the San Jose team will be entering free agency this offseason and are literally playing for their lives.

Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau, Devin Setoguchi, Evgeni Nabokov, Rob Blake, Jed Ortmeyer, and 17 others may in fact find themselves playing for other teams next season.

There is little chance, of course, of the Sharks losing all of those players. They will lose some, and among those who will almost certainly be departing is the longtime Shark and former ...

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