It's Over In Vancouver Tonight

For starters, it would have been the Sharks' series if they at least controlled the amount of penalties that they have taken. Unfortunately, those penalties and that's why they're caught in a 3-1 hole heading back to Vancouver for Game 5.

You might believe that the Sharks had the game in Game 4 and it would be 2-2 instead of a 3-1 deficit. But that's not the case after what I saw in Game 4. Is this really the San Jose team that everyone had of going to the Stanley Cup Finals?

You may recall that earlier this season, I had picked the LA Kings and the Tampa Bay Lightning going to the Stanley Cup Finals. Well, right now, I had one of those teams wrong and it looks like the other team might finish on the outs too.

But we'll talk about that later. What the Sharks did in this series disgusts me. Todd McLellan does not know how to control the amount of penalties that his team takes. Three goals on 5-on-3 powerplays is just an autrocity and I'm sure the coaches and the fans of the San Jose Sharks are feeling it.

I'm sure they'll take more penalties in Game 5 because it's Vancouver and they know how to score at home on penalties. That is why it's over tonight. The defense of the Sharks are dropped, Antti Niemi is getting no help from them, and it looks like their offense has seemingly disappeared. The Sedins are playing well. They have that offense and it looks like Roberto Luongo is keeping those pucks out of the net. Ryan Kesler is still Ryan Kesler. The defense of the Canucks is handling the rest of the Sharks' offense and things seem to be going Vancouver's way.



Tonight is the night where all things end for the Sharks. They had a chance to win the series but their increasing penalties but them in doom. Look for the Canucks to move on tonight, puckheads.

ESPN analyst Barry Melrose has the rest of the preview for tonight's here in the video shown below.