There are a lot of reasons the San Jose Sharks won't win their decisive Game 7 against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night at SAP Center.
Some of those reasons are rooted in an eerily similar second-round series the Sharks played in 2011. Just as they did with the Kings this year, the Sharks squandered a 3-0 series lead against the Detroit Red Wings, although they held it together to win Game 7 at home and advance to the conference finals.
The problem for the Sharks is for all the similarities that series holds with their current one against the Kings, it's the little differences that are going to make them the fourth team in NHL history to lose a playoff series after winning its first three games.
In 2011, the Sharks refused to become unraveled when they had every opportunity to do just that.
The Red Wings won Game 4 in Detroit on a goal with 1:27 remaining in the third period by Darren Helm after the Sharks erased a 3-0 deficit, an expected result from a team filled with veterans who would not go gently into that good night.
In Game 5, the Sharks frittered away a 3-1 lead in the third p ...
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This Isn’t 2011: Why the Sharks Are on the Verge of Losing Game 7 to the Kings
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