The San Jose Sharks did not get the jump on the St. Louis Blues in the first game of their Western Conference Final series.
Don't expect head coach Peter DeBoer to do anything unusual with his lineup following the 2-1 loss. The Sharks had jumped out ahead of the Los Angeles Kings and Nashville Predators in their first two series but will have to play come-from-behind hockey in this series.
DeBoer was not upset with the way his team played and doesn't have to do anything unusual with his lineup.
"Again, we're not going to overreact to it," DeBoer said, per NHL.com's Louie Korac. "It was a winnable game, [we] probably had more quality chances than they did. If we're coming out of that game having been dominated possession, chance, weren't getting anything going offensively, then you look to shuffle the deck. But I don't think that was the case."
The Sharks reacted quickly to a David Backes goal in the opener, as Tomas Hertl scored 34 seconds later. However, when Jori Lehtera scored from the left-wing boards on a slap shot at the 9:15 mark of the second period, the Sharks could not get the game-tying goal beh ...
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