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The season is a little more than two months old and the San Jose Sharks and New Jersey Devils are still battling to find consistency.In their final meeting of the season on Monday night Adidas Scott Mayfield Jersey , the Sharks go for their fourth win in five games while the Devils look to bounce back from a frustrating loss.San Jose (15-11-3) returns to SAP Center after falling by one goal to the Dallas Stars on Friday before a 5-3 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday. Lukas Radil, playing in just his sixth game after three seasons in the KHL, broke a 3-all tie with his first NHL goal late in the third period.Article continues below ...“We needed something like that. We needed a fourth-line goal or somebody big to come off the bench and give us something,” coach Peter DeBoer said of the 28-year-old Czech native.But the team has been inconsistent from the start of 2018-19 when San Jose alternated wins and losses in its first five games. The club later surrendered 20 goals during four straight setbacks on a recent road trip and failed on three occasions to extend a winning streak to three games.“The common theme is we’ve let games get away from us,” DeBoer said before Saturday’s game. “It’s been a couple minutes of adversity and instead of sticking with it and hanging in there … we’ve overreacted to that adversity and the games ran away from us.”DeBoer, who led the Devils to the Stanley Cup finals in 2012, said afterwards that the Sharks aren’t out of the woods yet.“It just seems like right now the opportunities we give up are ending up in our net and putting a lot of pressure on us. I think there’s a lot more good than bad, but there is still some work to do,” he said.San Jose may discover a calming influence at home against New Jersey. The Sharks have won the last two meetings in California by a combined score of 10-2, and seek a season series split after falling 3-2 on Oct. 14 in Newark.One player for San Jose who has been consistent all season is Joe Pavelski. The captain scored against Arizona and needs one goal to reach 20 for the 10th time in 13 seasons. Through 31 games, Pavelski is three goals shy of matching his total in 82 games last season and he’s scored in three straight matchups with New Jersey (10-12-6).The Devils head to the Bay Area looking for only their second win in nine games. Marcus Johansson scored the tying goal in the final minute of regulation after New Jersey gave up three goals and fell 6-5 in a shootout to the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday night.“Those were a little bit odd tonight. It’s situations where you have to find a way to overcome. It’s not something that you can let deflate you,” coach John Hynes said.After putting up 97 points last season Adidas Dustin Tokarski Jersey , the Devils are at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division and tied with the Ottawa Senators for the fewest road wins this season with three.One bright spot for New Jersey on the road trip is Kyle Palmieri with two goals in each of the first two games. He leads the club with 14 and has one goal in 10 career games in San Jose.Hart Trophy winner Taylor Hall leads the Devils with 22 assists and 30 points and needs one goal for 200 in his career. A former top overall pick by the Edmonton Oilers in 2010, Hall has three markers in his last two games at SAP Center.Meanwhile, longtime San Jose center Joe Thornton keeps chugging along. The top overall draft pick by the Boston Bruins in 1997 needs two assists to tie Marcel Dionne for 10th all-time with 1,040 and has six helpers in his last three home games. DENVER (AP) The Nashville Predators are done dealing with the speed of Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche.Next, they get the physicality of Dustin Byfuglien and the Winnipeg Jets .There’s no easy test this time of year.”They’ve got size. They’ve got skill. They’ve got speed,” forward Austin Watson said Sunday night after Nashville beat the Avalanche 5-0 in Game 6 to clinch the series. ”Get our rest and get prepared.”Nashville looks every bit like the team that went to the Stanley Cup Final a season ago and won the Presidents’ Trophy this season. The Predators are hitting their stride heading into the Winnipeg series. They had 11 forwards notch at least a point in the Colorado series.Not to be outdone, the Jets had a balanced scoring attack in closing out Minnesota, 4-1.”We saw how the regular season went against them. They’re good hockey games,” said Watson, whose team went 3-1-1 against the Jets during the year. ”We’re excited.”This goaltending showdown should be worth the price of admission: Pekka Rinne vs. Connor Hellebuyck.One Vezina Trophy finalist against another. Both are coming off a solid series, with Rinne stopping 22 shots in a 5-0 win Sunday to close out the series with Colorado. Hellebuyck had a 1.94 goals-against average in eliminating the Wild.”Moving into the second round, I think you want to be playing very good defensive hockey against Winnipeg Adidas Robin Lehner Jersey ,” Rinne said. ”One of the better teams in the league. They have a lot of firepower, a lot of talent up front. Also, like ours, their `D’ is a big part of their game. I think it’s going to be very exciting, good series.”The Western Conference semifinals feature a little bit of history: This marks only the third time the final four in the conference are all chasing after their first Stanley Cup since the introduction of conferences in `74-75, according to information provided by the league. The scenario also occurred in 2012 (the Los Angeles Kings hoisted the Cup) and in 1984 (Edmonton).In the other semifinal matchup set to get underway, expansion Las Vegas faces San Jose.”Anytime you win a series you’re feeling confident,” Predators forward Nick Bonino said. ”We’re going to be as confident as we can going against Winnipeg. We know how good they are.”That’s a sentiment shared by forward Filip Forsberg, who scored four goals against Colorado.”It was a good test for us. These guys have been flying around for six games, playing really fast hockey,” Forsberg said. ”We’ve been trying to play as fast as we can as well. If we can bring that speed into the next round that will be good.”The Nashville defense will have its hands full with the likes of Jets forward Patrik Laine, who scored 44 goals in the regular season Adidas Leo Komarov Jersey , and Blake Wheeler (91 points).Still, the Predators enter on a high after posting a shutout victory in a series-ending game for the first time in franchise history. They joined Vegas and Winnipeg as the third team to accomplish the feat this postseason.”It’s better to end it this way than hanging on at the end,” Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. ”There are other teams on the ice that are pretty good hockey teams. You see it in other series going on. It would have been great if you win (the series) 4-0 but that wasn’t the case. We had an opposition that was young, skilled and fast and they had nothing to lose, and they played that way. There were times in the first five games it didn’t look like it was just going happen – we were going to have to work for it.”It was nice tonight to play a game we were comfortable with.”The Avs take some pride in knowing they gave the Predators fits at times.”We made them fight for it,” Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog said.Exactly.”The way Colorado works and battles and plays the game fast, it definitely challenged us,” Predators center Colton Sissons said. ”It was a good experience for us going forward.”—