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The road to winning the Stanley Cup is only halfway over, yet both combatants in the Western Conference final are truly battle tested. When the San Jose Sharks play host to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night to kick off the third round of the NHL playoffs -- a rematch of the 2016 Western Conference final won by the Sharks -- both teams have already overcome so much. The Sharks first beat the Vegas Golden Knights in the opening round -- their Game 7 comeback that featured four third-period power-play goals, a blown final-minute lead and then an overtime win will undoubtedly go down in hockey lore -- before surviving a gut-wrenching series with the Colorado Avalanche in the second round.