Boston Bruins: Pros and cons to facing the San Jose Sharks
By Luke Ryan
We’re moving full speed ahead towards crunch time. The Boston Bruins have already booked their place in the Stanley Cup Final. The dates have been set. It’s now up to the St. Louis Blues and San Jose Sharks to work out who heads on.
All focus has turned to figuring out who will be entering the final as the Western Conference champions. Right now, the St. Louis Blues hold a 3-2 series lead and would seem to be in the ascendancy, but Boston Bruins fans know that a series lead doesn’t always equate to a series win.
After all, Game 6 could turn in an instant and the San Jose Sharks could force the series to a Game 7 decider. That’s exactly what needs to happen for this to even make much sense!
By comparison, the Boston Bruins swept their way through their Eastern Conference final, and although they should be wary of the sweep, have been doing all the right things ahead of the Stanley Cup Final.
Neither the San Jose Sharks or St. Louis Blues are unbeatable. Heck, even the Boston Bruins lost play-off games to the Toronto Maple Leafs and Columbus Blue Jackets; they too are able to be beaten, albeit not many times really.
The key to the Bruins winning is to take advantage of the clear pros to facing the Sharks and avoid being trapped by the cons. There’s clear bonuses that come with playing against San Jose; travel time not being one of them. Likewise, there’s clear fear factors that come with playing the Sharks – namely that they’ve been to the final a few times of late and still haven’t walked away with the big one.
We look into some of the pros and cons of drawing up against the San Jose Sharks in the Stanley Cup Final: