photo credit: si.com–The Washington Capitals acknowledge their fans after clinching for the President’s Cup for most wins the NHL Eastern Conference

On the NHL podcast with Joe Lami the Stanley Cup Playoffs are just round the corner and the real gritty teams going to post season will include the Washington Capitals who won the President’s Cup but can they break the curse. Their have been a number of NHL teams who won the Prez Cup but couldn’t win the whole thing and at times couldn’t even go deep in the playoffs.

The San Jose Sharks after losing three straight home games finally broke through with a win to clinch a playoff birth defeating the first place Los Angeles Kings on Monday night 5-2. The Sharks got offensive goal scoring help from Justin Braun who scored twice, Melker Karlsson and Joe Pavelski found the back end of the net, and the Sharks Joe Thornton scored the tie breaking goal to put the Sharks ahead for good on Monday.

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