Kinda surprised me how the Sharks faded against the Canucks in the third period of Game 1. I asked Todd McLellan the other day whether the emotional high of a Game 7 win over Detroit simply didn’t carry over because his players seemed flat. He agreed to a point and then on Tuesday admitted he spent most of the morning’s video session “massaging the minds” of his players, trying to convince

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