from Ray Ratto, special to the Mercury News,

Until further notice, this is San Jose’s Stanley Cup. And further notice begins this weekend against Colorado.

The Sharks, the very definition of Not Good Enough When You Need Them Most, achieved their greatest moment ever as an organized team Tuesday night by beating the Vegas Golden Knights, 5-4 in overtime, to win this Western Conference first round series in the most improbable way ever devised — and if you try to say the 5-0 win over Nashville in 2016 that sent them to the Cup Final against Pittsburgh was bigger, we will respectfully dismiss you as a philistine and an idiot.

Because overtime was the fifth-most important thing about Tuesday. The Sharks finally, after all these years, became made men.

The Fin Of Disappointment, so named because they have largely been about playoff failure, cheated all the deaths Tuesday — all of them. Barclay Goodrow’s goal with 1:41 to go completed a comeback that made all other hockey comebacks bend the knee, and yes, that includes The Miracle On Manchester.

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