Sharks Were Inches From a Different Night

San Jose didn’t score, but they kept carving out very-close chances that the box score hides. The Sharks hit the iron three times (SJS: 2 hits — 1 post, 1 crossbar; DAL: 1 crossbar) and had multiple near-misses while Dallas piled up shots and chances. Those rebounds and posts made the game feel tighter at stretches even as Dallas owned the shot attempts (66 to 34), shots on goal (26 to 13) and high-danger chances (24 to 8). Kiefer Sherwood and Will Smith were credited with the Sharks’ two iron hits; Thomas Harley had Dallas’s crossbar.