SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fifteen minutes after Joonas Donskoi turned and fired the San Jose Sharks back into this Stanley Cup Final, hoots and hollers could still be heard around the SAP Center concourses.
Sharks fans had already sweated through nearly four hours of heart-stopping hockey, but many just didn't want to leave. After waiting 25 years for the first Cup Final home game in team history, who could blame them?
With as much fun as they had, Sharks fans want to come back to this building ASAP.
It's a series again, folks. Despite getting clobbered in the shots-on-goal department again—and despite there being several times when it looked like the younger, faster Pittsburgh Penguins had them done in—the Sharks slipped the noose and took a 3-2 overtime victory on Donskoi's tough-angle, turnaround wrister that somehow found an opening behind rookie Pens goalie Matt Murray.
Game 4 happens Monday night in San Jose, perhaps providing just enough time for Sharks fans to get the vocal cords in good working order again.
"The fans were a big help for us," s ...
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