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Watch: Sharks’ DeBoer elbows glass in front of heckling Oilers fan

Peter DeBoer was out there throwing 'bows.

The San Jose Sharks head coach couldn't help but nudge the glass in front of an Edmonton fan who was giving him the business during Thursday night's overtime win by the Oilers in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.

Related: Desharnais ends dominant OT for Oilers with one-timer past Jones

DeBoer can be thankful there's no Department of Fan Safety to schedule a hearing, and for the pane of glass that protected the guy from the coach's quick right.

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Watch: Desharnais ends dominant OT for Oilers with one-timer past Jones

David Desharnais will be remembered in Edmonton for quite some time.

The Oilers center recorded the overtime goal in Game 5 to give his team a 3-2 series lead over the San Jose Sharks.

The win was well earned for the Oilers, who out shot San Jose 14-2 in the extra frame.

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Watch: Klefbom sends Game 5 to OT with late strike

Oscar Klefbom is momentarily the most popular man in Edmonton.

The Oilers defenseman unleashed an absolute bomb of a slap shot that got by Martin Jones, tying Game 5 against the San Jose Sharks with less than three minutes remaining in regulation.

The goal was Klefbom's second of the postseason.

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Watch: McDavid crushes Sorensen with open-ice check

Connor McDavid, physical presence.

In an attempt to rally his Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 against the San Jose Sharks, the captain leveled Marcus Sorensen with a bruising open-ice hit.

Orange crush, indeed.

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Rinne after series win over Blackhawks: Predators ‘can beat anybody’

A sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks has the Nashville Predators feeling like world-beaters.

Goaltender Pekka Rinne seems to think so, at least.

"Right now, I don't care who we play against, if we keep this up we can beat anybody," Rinne said, per Thomas Willis from the team's website.

Clearly, there's reason for confidence after Nashville limited the top team in the Western Conference to three goals in four games, with Rinne himself playing a starring role by posting a brilliant .970 save percentage.

Not only that, but the Predators outshot Chicago by a 134-126 margin, suggesting Nashville largely carried the play in a series few predicted they'd win, much less sweep.

Nashville now awaits the winner of Minnesota-St. Louis with the knowledge that no team they'll face in the Western Conference bracket was as good in the regular season as the team they just beat handily.

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Watch: Boedker completes tic-tac-toe passing play

After being a healthy scratch in Games 3 and 4, Sharks forward Mikkel Boedker left his mark on Game 5 by netting his fifth career playoff goal, finishing off beautiful passes from Marcus Sorensen and Chris Tierney.

Boedker is trying to forget a miserable season in which he recorded just 26 points in 81 games after signing a four-year, $16-million contract with the Sharks. There's no better time than the playoffs to make up for an underachieving season.

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