Teal Chronicles #3: Three Overtimes, Three Victories
The San Jose Sharks boast a 3-0 record in overtime following game-winning heroics from Luca Cagnoni, Igor Chernyshov, and Darnell Nurse. If that isn't a sentence you expected to read following the Sharks' fourth game of the season, you probably aren't alone. Three wins. Three overtime victories. Three different heroes. And perhaps most encouragingly, this latest win came without the player who carried Team Teal on his back for much of last season. Here's why that matters. Macklin Celebrini was the one driving San Jose's bus last season — the reason the team came so close to its first playoff berth in seven years instead of competing for dead last in the NHL once again. He finished with 45 goals and 70 assists, completing a franchise-record 115-point season. Admittedly, he still looked sharp in the Sharks' first two wins this season, amassing five assists and setting up the game-winning goal for Chernyshov against the Los Angeles Kings. However, when Celebrini w...