Even the St. Louis Blues can assure themselves at least one more home game with a victory in Game 4 on Friday night against the visiting Sharks, while San Jose can transfer one win from potentially clinching a second-ever spot in the Stanley Cup Finals with a victory. The Boston Bruins almost surely await the winner of the Western Conference Finals.
Sharks vs. Blues Stanley Cup Playoffs Betting Analysis On the updated Sports Interaction series lineup, the Sharks are -250 favorites together with all the Blues at +187. Boston, which had a chance to sweep Carolina in the East Finals on Thursday night, is the -139 Stanley Cup favorite. San Jose is +200 and St. Louis +450.
Thanks to Wednesday’s 5-4 overtime win in St. Louis, background is about the Sharks’ side to progress. In almost any NHL conference finals or semifinals show, the winner of Game 3 when the series was tied 1-1 does progress 76.1 per cent of their moment.
San Jose Sharks
San Jose’s mad success in odd-numbered games in these playoffs continued with Wednesday’s success as the Sharks are now 9-1 with a plus-15 target differential in odd-numbered games in contrast to 1-6 in even-numbered games. Blueliner Erik Karlsson, obtained before this season in a blockbuster trade from Ottawa, scored the winner at 5:23 of OT in Game 4. The target should have never counted because it had been put up by an apparent hand overhaul from Timo Meier. Officials huddled following the goal, but it was not a play.
Logan Couture got the match to overtime for the Sharks with his playoff-leading 14th aim at 18:59 of the third. That ties the franchise record, while the NHL only postseason record for goals is 19. Karlsson had the primary goal of the game. Joe Thornton added two goals for the Sharks. Rather amazingly, it was the first-ever multi-goal playoff match for its 39-year-old Thornton, a future Hall of Famer in his 176th postseason game.
St. Louis Blues
Wildly entertaining Game 3 with five goals scored in the next period, four by St. Louis (first time in 19 years the team had that many in any postseason period). The Blues found themselves down 2-0 after 3-1 and one early in the second. Vladimir Tarasenko’s sixth goal of the movie cut the Sharks’ lead to 3-2, David Perron’s fourth tied it, and Perron scored again at 18:42 of the moment on the power play to give St. Louis the lead. Alas, it couldn’t be held by rookie netminder Jordan Binnington. He allowed five goals on 32 shots. Blueliner Colton Parayko had three assists.
The Blues vastly outhit the Sharks (43-21), were 1-for-1 with the man advantage (group’s first PP goal since Game 4 of their last round), blocked more shots and had greater takeaways but nevertheless dropped. Defenceman Vince Dunn left with an upper-body injury and didn’t return. He’s seven factors in those playoffs and his standing is TBA. It’s the first time in these playoffs.
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