from David Pollak of the Mercury News,
The final two minutes had plenty of drama. A shot by Brent Burns that clanked off the post. Another, 16 seconds later by Logan Couture, that appeared to beat Montreal goalie Carey Price before deflecting away off the knob of his stick.
Had either of those pucks crossed the goal line, the Sharks probably would have pulled at least a point out of Saturday night's game against the Montreal Canadiens.
But they didn't, San Jose would go on to lose 2-0, and now the Sharks likely have no margin of error if they are to keep alive their decade-long streak of making the playoffs.
"Yeah, we really do," Couture said when asked if the Sharks now need to run the table in their final 10 games. "We're not going to quit. We're going to compete until the very end and see what happens then."
Coach Todd McLellan wouldn't go that far -- "I'm not very good at math, so I'm not doing it," was his response to a question about his team's dire predicament. But with 10 games left, the Sharks can attain a maximum 98 points and it could take that many to qualify in the competitive Western Conference.
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