from David Schoen of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,

The hockey conspiracy theorists were out in force the past few days, pointing to the one-game suspension of Sharks forward Evander Kane as more evidence of preferential treatment from the league for the Golden Knights.

The events of Saturday evening were exhibit A against those claims.

The Knights’ Jonathan Marchessault had a goal disallowed late in the first overtime before San Jose’s Logan Couture converted on a power play in the second overtime to lift the Sharks to a 4-3 victory at T-Mobile Arena.

The Sharks snagged home-ice advantage in the best-of-seven series, which is tied at 1-1 and shifts to Northern California. Game 3 is at 7 p.m. Monday in San Jose.

“They better be ready because we didn’t show up for 45 minutes tonight,” Knights coach Gerard Gallant said. “We played a great game the other night and competed and battled. And tonight, whether we thought it was going to be easy or what we thought, I don’t know. But we didn’t show up to play our game tonight and it cost us big time. They were the better team all night.”

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