Is there anything fishy about the San Jose sharks?

The San Jose Sharks have built a reputation over the decades as guests at the party and they always had to leave at 10:30 am, either because it was time to drive or they had to relieve the babysitter, either work in the morning and need their eight hours as they have a quarterly report to complete.

Not this year, though. This is the year when the host seems very determined to have them stay until the end of the evening and will provide them with the best food and the best spirits to make sure they do not leave. After 27 years of "Someone knows where is my jacket?" The Sharks are being asked to stay overnight.

On Wednesday night, Timo Meier's obvious pass to Gus Nyquist and Nyquist's subsequent legal pass to Erik Karlsson scored the goal of San Jose's 5: 4 win over St. Louis in the third game of the final of the Conference. l & # 39; West. It was another embarrassing call from the beleaguered officials, who could not use the replay as a normal means of rescue because the rules did not allow it and the Sharks stole another victory they did not have. really seen coming.

In the first round, they had already been good at the promotion with the famous major penalty of Cody Eakin, who had transformed the Golden Knights of Vegas into 3-0 winners in scandalous 5 to 4 losers in overtime, a call that fueled the four goals apology from the league office to venerable Vegii. They also took advantage of an extremely tight off-side in game 7 of the second-round series with Colorado, which canceled Colin Wilson's apparent goal and saved San Jose's 2-1 win. It was not worth apologizing, but it was enough hinky to sow consternation among the crowd of league players who can not be fair, who now has the size of an angry mob.

And now, there is Meier's call, painfully obvious before becoming simply painful. The Sharks now have a 3-0 score against The Man (well, 3-1 if you want to criticize a phone call at the beginning of the Avalanche series that Marc-Edouard Vlasic thought he deserved a second excuse), and people are starting to notice, in this way of their aluminum paper.

Is Head Coach Peter DeBoer a Warlock? Is Executive Director Doug Wilson a shapeshifter? The team's owner, Hasso Plattner (the third owner of sports in North America) has a debt with Gary Bettman? Joe Thornton Moses, Gandalf or simply an imitator of John Brown? When did the Sharks become the luckiest team in the world, and if so, why?

To be reasonable about this, Eakin's hit over Joe Pavelski (who is frankly another Joe that the Sharks should be trying to win this title) was at best a minor of two minutes, but no one has asked criminals Penis Knights wildcat strike in response. The out-of-bounds call against Gabriel Landeskog was lean and inconsistent with usual line-break practices, but technically correct to the point where The Athletic's Kevin Kurz aired a report of the current day on the tattlet of the Sharks video . And the Meier Pass has apparently led the Blues to stop waiting for TWTNC – the whistle that never came. According to the rules of Darwinian sport, it is not illegal as long as the cops do not say it. Moreover, we are sure that the Sharks have historical stories of lacks at the helm to prove their own version of the law of large numbers, or as we also call it, The book of what about the time we were screwed?

So, let's exclude the DeBoer and Plattner scenarios, because I invented them for the first time, although I'm not sure we've ever seen Wilson and Doctor Strange in the same place at the same time. In one way or another, the Sharks, this typically talented but harmless team whose superpower has always been the ability to disappoint, have suddenly been favored by fate. If they can not participate in a parade this year, it's hard to see how much more beneficial calls they'll need to get one.

There is however a pretty sure assumption to draw from all this: the Blues have learned the valuable lesson about the need to never stop until they've heard two whistles – the # One to stop the game and the other to be able to make sure that they have of course the first whistle. And we all know what kind of bad pleasure comes from that.

It should be mentioned that unlikely odds races are not unusual in the Stanley Cup Playoffs; no one has ever held the cup without having some horseshoes in his equipment. And if the Thornton Crusade takes place over a long period of competition and they take advantage of the Bruins' scam to match or surpass those of the Knights, Avs and Blues victims, well, would that be all right? it hurts?

In total, we now get a new image of the Sharks with their last 20 lines of contact. They are now the collective incarnation of the player who is being helped by the people who run the casino. We do not know how long this race will last, but people are noticing it and starting to gather around the table to see what all the heckling is about.

And because hockey is hockey, it's usually the moment when luck starts to go wrong.

Ray Ratto misses Kerry Fraser, although it's probably just the hair.