Schedule and 2008-09 Results
Regular Season Records: San Jose 53-18-11=117pts, Anaheim 42-33-7=91pts
Game 1 on Thursday, 16 April: Anaheim wins at San Jose, 2-goals-nil
Game 2 on Sunday, 19 April: Anaheim wins at San Jose, 3-goals-2
Game 3 on Tuesday, 21 April: San Jose wins at Anaheim, 4-goals-3
Game 4 on Thursday, 23 April: San Jose loses at Anaheim, 4-goals-nil
Game 5 on Saturday, 25 April: Anaheim loses at San Jose, 3-goals-2 (OT)
Game 6 on Monday, 27 April: San Jose loses at Anaheim, 4-goals-1

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: The Anaheim Ducks defeated the San Jose Sharks 4-games-2 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1060, thereby improving their best-of-7 NHL playoff series record to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the Preliminary round (since shedding "Mighty" from their sobriquet). Through the series 1060 loss, the San Jose best-of-7 NHL playoff series record falls to 9-12 overall and 8-4 in the Preliminary round. The victorious Ducks posted a WWLWLW win order in series 1060: Series 1060 thus becomes the seventh NHL Preliminary-round series, the 17th NHL series (all rounds), and the 36th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow this win order to completion. With the series 1060 win, the Anaheim Ducks become the first NHL team (in 18 tries) to defeat an opponent in a best-of-7 playoff series upon having trailed that opponent by 26 regular-season points. In that context, series 1060 becomes the 12th-largest upset in the history of best-of-7 NHL playoff series (the largest: in series 580, the Minnesota North Stars finished 38 points behind the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1990-91 NHL regular season, but defeated the Blackhawks 4-games-2 in the 1991 NHL Preliminary round).