URGENT: Wildcard Race INTENSIFIES as San Jose Sharks and Montreal Canadiens COLLIDE Tonight

The center of the Sharks look to make it three straight wins as they host the Montreal

Canadians.

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Sharks Canadians game as big game for both the San Jose Sharks and the Canadians as both

teams firmly in the playoff race in the Sharks, trying to gain some momentum and climb

ever closer to that wild card two-spot.

So look at how these two teams match up.

Of course, get to know the cadets a little bit more, look at projected lines, and then

of course, what to watch for in this game.

That's again, the Sharks try to make it three straight, try to close that gap for wild

card two.

So let's get started by looking at how these two teams match up.

Montreal, Canadians, 33, 17, and 9-year San Jose Sharks, 29, 25, and 4.

Canadians, offense, very good, 3.49 goals for per game, fourth in the NHL, the goals

have 3.20, 24th in the NHL, Powerplay, sorry for the Sharks, 3.05 goals, 18th, goals

a lot, 3.47, 30th in the NHL.

Special teams, Montreal, Canadians, Powerplay is insane, 24.3% fourth best in the NHL,

the PK though is 77.125th in the NHL, Sharks Powerplay, 19.6%, 18th in the PK, 78.9, 19th.

Rafael leads the Canadians with goals 35, Suzuki has 49 assists, him and Hudson both are

tied there, and then Suzuki has 68 points leading the way.

Celebrity, of course, leads in all categories, 29 goals, 54 assists in 83 total points for

the Sharks.

Celebrity, it doesn't score another point all season long, point per game player, so congrats

to him.

This Canadians team is very good, they are second in their division when it comes to

point per game, sixth in the NHL, they are driven by their offense, they do a good job

of, they do above average job of creating expectations for them, but they are good at finishing

and you would expect that, especially with guys like Sapkowski, Caulfield, Patrick Lina,

who I know is probably going to get moved by Friday, but they have a lot of guys who

can finish for them.

Expecting goals against their pretty kind of middle of the pack when it comes to not

allowing goals, but the goal technique has been a bit of a disappointment for them this

year and they have kind of run through a bunch of different goal tenders to try to find

a solution, so they are kind of in the middle of the pack when it comes to, you know, creating

slash allowing goals, but again they are very much popped up by their shooting percentage

which you would expect with all the talent that they have, especially in the offense there.

You know, you have Demodov, you have Caulfield, you have so many guys who can score and this

power play has been absolutely lethal for them.

It's funny, like looking at the numbers quickly here, the numbers are pretty similar to

the Edmonton Oilers, like when you look at the total offense, the defense, like all

the special teams are very similar to the Oilers, but you feel like the Canadians, if they

can get their goal tending, which feels like it's an easier solution for them with some

of their in-house options, especially with Valor coming along here, that they could be

that kind of next big, like they're well in their way to being a long term contending

team here, so and they have plenty of ammo to do whatever they want.

With the lines for the Canadians, Caulfield, Suzuki, Doc, Safkavsky, Cappanin, Demodov,

New Hook, Evans, Bulldoke, Anderson, Denou, Gallagher for the forward group there.

So a couple of guys to keep an eye on here.

Of course we know the big names right, Caulfield, Suzuki, Demodov, who's, you know, had a good

season this year as a rookie, you know, they have to know who they just required, re-acquired

from the L.A. King.

So plenty of players, you know, to keep an eye on here, but that middle six, especially

the center, the Cappanin, Evans, that kind of, they're, they're, they're bugaboo right

now as they're trying to find out ways to improve that area.

Defensively, Matheson, Gull, Hudson, Dobson, and then Strubel, Carrier, and then I'm

not sure if it's going to be dobs or Montable in net for them tonight, so we haven't, as

I'm recording this, no confirmation on the gold tender for them.

Four-year standards in Sharks, Smith, Celebrini, Graf has put back together, so we have the

NCAA line, Equal and Misa Tafoli, Sherwood, Wenberg, Kyrgyzhev, Goudro O'Sophtuk, Godet,

so Godet comes in for Pavel Regenda, sorry, the Regenda Agenda, we have to put that

away for at least another game.

And then, defensively, Orlov Klingberg, Farrow, Mughamadoulin, Tickinson, Day Arenays, and

Ascrop is the expected starter, so we do have the NCAA line put back together.

We have Sherwood playing with Wenberg, we did see at the end of last game, we'll see

how long that continues and what, you know, as we continue to monitor the Sherwood situation.

So we're going to talk about Sherwood, we're going to talk about what to watch for in this

game, and why I think to the Sharks, if they continue to play the way that they've been

playing, they're going to have a good chance to win.

So we'll give to that in just one second.

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All right, what to watch for in this game, and the sharks, this continues to be a big

game, right, the kind of the goal coming out of the Olympic break was six points out

of the possible eight, you blew the flames game, you got four points this weekend over

the oilers and over the jets, and it comes about your own, and Montreal is a very good team,

it's a good team, right?

You can pull out this one, you're going to feel way better than how you felt coming out

of that flames game when the season was over, get the trash bags, throw away the season,

all that fun stuff, big test though.

I think though for San Jose and what we have seen in these three games post-Elympics

is they have outplayed their opponents for the most part in these games, right?

The first two periods of the flames game, they, they outplayed the flames and Dustin Wolf

shut them down, and then the third period, they kind of crumbled in that game.

Oilers, they outplayed the oilers for majority of that game, and then the jets kind of

the same thing, they outplayed the jets and Connor Hellebuck was just like he was extraordinary

in that game, and they were able to come back and complete this game.

Montreal, this is going to be a much, I think this game is going to be a lot like the oilers

game where it's going to be much more back and forth between the two, but they don't have

that guy in net that makes you feel like he can just steal a game.

And you know, as soon as I say this, Montreal is going to shut out the sharks tonight,

but they don't, I don't feel like they, right now they have a, that game stealing type

of goalie.

So, I actually think this, this is going to be a little bit of a high score and a fair

given how both teams want to play, right?

Both teams want to kind of get up and down, they want to score goals, they want to put pressure

on the other team to kind of keep up.

I think the defenses for both are, you know, a little suspect, and I think the goal

tending for both teams, little suspect as well.

Even with Ask In Net, he is still prone as a guy who's played 53 NHL games.

He is going prone to give up soft goals.

We've seen it, right?

There's no, it's just, it is what it is right now.

For a, a rookie goal tender.

So I think this is a game where it could get, I think this could be a really fun like five

to four back and fourth type of an affair.

And we've seen both teams very good in these over time situations, like Kalkoffield, insane

and over time.

Don't let that man get the puck.

Mac and Selbrini, how many times have we seen Selbrini do crazy stuff and over time?

So I think this is one of those games where it's probably going to last team to score

wins as this game, right?

It's, it feels like one of those is either five to four and over time or five to four

type of a fair late in the third period type of game.

So that's what I think.

I think if the sharks, though, can play how they have played since the exit of the,

since returning from the limit break, I think this team can keep up, right?

And we've seen, you know, like Selbrini has been, been solved, but we haven't seen

that big Selbrini game since his return, you know, I've, I've spoken about the Miesel

line.

I've spoken about Eklin, where I think Eklin is overdue for a bit of a scoring barrage

here.

And you know what?

K for sure would this, this feels like kind of a nice put up or shut up type of game

from sure would.

And I know, right?

People are like, it's only been four games for him, you know, and scoring isn't everything.

If you want 30 million dollars, man, you got to show me something, especially for all

the ice time that you were getting, we talked better on today's episode.

This, I feel like sure what gets his first point today, I think Eklin scores.

And I think the sharks win a nail bite or five to four in this game.

I think it's going to be your, I think it's going to be one of those super fun games

that we're, we're very excited after the game.

So that's my prediction.

I think you, you got to say, you got to know dumb penalties.

I'm looking at you, key for sure would and Phil Kershev have had some really dumb penalties

because this Canadian team will make you pay and right, you have to be able to take advantage

of your opportunities.

I think the sharks are going, they've been doing a good job of generating opportunities

and they've had outstanding goal tending, kind of shut that down.

I don't think that's going to be the case that I think very much over in the, the goals

on this game.

So that's going to be it for me.

We'll be back tonight.

We'll have some fun recapping this game.

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