S.F. Examiner: Sharks earn first Stanley Cup finals berth in team history

By Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner

And so a quarter-century of silence is over. That’s a figure of speech, of course, because when it comes to the San Jose Sharks, home fans never have been silent, although in the team’s history, starting at the Cow Palace, then continuing on to the glass-bricked building now known as SAP Center, there may never have been a crowd as raucous as Wednesday night.

“Make Noise,” advised the big message board hanging from the rafters, and never has such advice gone to waste. If the 17,562 fans made any more noise, well, the jets that swoop in for landings at nearby San Jose International would have been drowned out.

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