SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks are finally ready to kick off what they hope will be a long Stanley Cup playoff run. The excitement starts Wednesday night when they face the team that knocked them out of last year’s playoffs – the Vegas Golden Knights.
Team Teal finished the regular season in second place in both the Pacific Division and the Western Conference with 101 points. The Golden Knights, last year’s Western Conference champion, finished third in the Pacific Division and seventh in the Western Conference with 93 points. San Jose split their four-game regular-season series with Vegas 2-2-0, winning the final matchup in overtime on March 30, 4-3.
Sharks projected lines and pairs
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Evander Kane – Tomas Hertl – Gustav Nyquist
Marcus Sorensen – Joe Thornton – Kevin Labanc
Micheal Haley – Barclay Goodrow – Melker Karlsson
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Brent Burns
Brenden Dillon – Erik Karlsson
Joakim Ryan – Justin Braun
Martin Jones – projected starter
Aaron Dell
Golden Knights projected lines and pairs
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Jonathan Marchessault – William Karlsson – Reilly Smith
Max Pacioretty – Paul Stastny – Mark Stone
Tomas Nosek – Cody Eakin – Alex Touch
Will Carrier – Pierre-Edouard Bellemare – Ryan Reaves
Nate Schmidt – Deryk Engelland
Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Nick Holden – Jon Merrill
Marc-Andre Fleury – projected starter
Malcolm Subban