AP photo: San Jose Sharks go into celebration mode after clinching their first NHL Finals in franchise history on Wednesday night at SAP Center

On the Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa the San Jose Sharks are really a special group this season and you would like to think it indicates a change in the league in the way you build your teams because it’s so much about speed and skill and not so much about that other stuff. It’s very exciting and there are five or six guys on this team who were in those games in the western conference finals a long time ago in hockey years when they played the Chicago Blackhawks and the Vancouver Canucks.

These guys have a lot of history together, they kind of done everything, lost, not made it, come close, fell short if you push through all of that you kind of develop mental toughness. The Sharks six years ago just didn’t have it so those loses and those top successes they got close and then they found what it takes to go beyond that.

Mary Lisa covers the San Jose Sharks and podcasts on the Sharks weekly at http://www.sportsradioservice.com