Game 7 of the first round Western Conference series between the San Jose Sharks and the Las Vegas Golden Knights couldn’t have been any tighter.
Overtime was necessary to resolve the result between the two teams, with the Sharks taking the game, the win, and the series.
All this after climbing back from a 3-0 deficit that they faced in the middle of the third quarter and after living one of the most insane endings to an NHL playoff game in the history of the league.
After a major penalty was called against the Golden Knights’ Cody Eakin, the Sharks went on a 5-minute power play. What happened next was hard to believe.
The Sharks scored not one, not two, not three, but four goals in the five-minute span to take a 4-3 lead. The arena rocked as the fans cheered on a comeback that they could hardly believe or imagine possible.
Logan Couture scored two of the goals in this amazing comeback, and Tomas Hertl and Kevin Labanc added one each.
Incredibly, though, Vegas tied up the game with only 45 seconds to go with a Jonathan Marchessault goal to send the game to overtime.
The Sharks got the last laugh, however, as Barclay Goodrow scored a winner in the final two minutes to send the arena into pandemonium and book the Sharks a ticket to the next round to play against the Colorado Avalanche.
