from Ray Ratto of CSNBayArea,

For all the people who reflexively said “We have a series” when Joonas Donskoi’s brilliantly lifted roof-job beat Matt Murray 12:18 into overtime in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final, let us caution you.

What we have here is a series worth continuing with.

Donskoi’s goal, which completed an unlikely San Jose comeback and gave the Sharks a 3-2 win to shave the Pittsburgh Penguins’ advantage to 2-1, came at the end of a wide-open, chance filled extra period that finally produced for us a game reflective of the relative levels of the teams involved.

In other words, the Sharks, who had been much the inferior side through much of the series, finally became competitive in the pursuit of loose pucks, zone time and general in-your-facetude.

And conversely, the Penguins, who had it all their own way through much of the first two games and enough of the third, are now fully engaged with the notion that this will not be a gentle walk to the podium.

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