#4 Sharks vs #5 Coyotes

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Well Sharks handled the Coyotes in regular season, looking at the regular season match-up and the keys teams stats. Sharks should take this series fairly quickly.

Coyotes goal tending duo has to be 1st star if the Coyotes want to win this series.

San Jose Sharks (4-0-1) vs 5. Phoenix Coyotes (0-4-1)


Regular Season Records

Sharks = 44-27-11
Coyotes = 45-29-8

Goals For

Coyotes = 3.06
Sharks = 2.93

Goals Against

Coyotes = 2.80
Sharks = 2.84

Power play

Sharks = 19.34%
Coyotes = 15.75%

PK

Sharks = 83.33%
Coyotes = 82.64%

Faceoffs

Sharks = 54.01%
Coyotes = 49.76%

Key injures
Jamie Oleksiak with the Coyotes is out for 3 weeks because of a Sprained Right Knee Injury.

Justin Falk with the Sharks is out for 1 week because of a Left Ankle Injury.

[MJK]

The Sharks did well vs the Coyotes in the regular season but that means nothing right now. The Sharks were flat rounding out the regular season losing a couple in a row so we hope we got some losses out of the way en route to a nice run.

Anything past the first round is considered a WIN for the Sharks organization who have been eliminated the last 2 years in a row. We put up a good fight last year vs the #1 seed but just didn't have enough fire power. Our team this year is stronger and deeper so we expect to win.

Surprisingly Justin Falk has been on of our best players this season so we are going to miss him in the lineup and hope he gets healthy soon.

On paper this should be an even match-up and I wouldn't be surprised if it goes 7.