Much like the Vancouver-Los Angeles series, the #2 vs. #7 matchup between the San Jose Sharks and St. Louis Blues looks to be a lot closer than the team's seedings indicate. In one corner, we have the Blues who have quietly assembled a great foundation over the last few years and are now seeing it pay off as they are sitting pretty at #2 in the Western Conference. In the other corner, we have the hard-luck kids known as the San Jose Sharks who were expected to contend for the Cup (yet again) but ended up not earning a playoff spot until the last week of the season.
I am willing to bet that if you asked almost any fan at the beginning of the season which one of these teams would be one of the best in the Western Conference and which one would be battling for one of the final playoff spots, they would probably guess the Sharks for the former and the Blues for the latter. It hasn't quite worked out that way, obviously and it's actually been more of the opposite. Most pundi...
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Brian Elliott,
Jaroslav Halak,
Thomas Greiss,
David Backes,
Alex Pietrangelo,
David Perron,
T.J. Oshie,
Dominic Moore,
Daniel Winnik,
Torrey Mitchell
TEAMS: St. Louis Blues, San Jose Sharks
TEAMS: St. Louis Blues, San Jose Sharks
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