Results, Friday’s tee times,

ST. LOUIS — Don’t tell coach Peter DeBoer that the Sharks have gotten lucky during their playoff run.

“It irks me when you use words like that because this is a team that has played four or five elimination games, not moments, games, 12 to 15 periods of elimination hockey,” DeBoer said. “I think it’s a ridiculous statement.”

Ridiculous or not, the Sharks have had their fair share of puck luck during their run.

The latest example came Wednesday night on Erik Karlsson’s gamewinning goal against the Blues in overtime. The officials missed a hand pass by Timo Meier, who used his right hand to knock the loose puck toward the front of the net where a quick pass set up Karlsson for his second goal of the game. The Sharks take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference finals into Game 4 on Friday night.

Meier was even given an assist on the play though his stick never touched the puck.

“It’s a fast game,” Meier said. “I went down on the ice. I got cross-checked after the puck was in the air so I was on the ice, looked up and the puck was in the net, and I saw the guys celebrating.”

The play wasn’t subject to review.

Sharks forward Logan Couture, whose goal with 61 second left in the third period sent the game to overtime, said such calls are part of the game.

“Right now, we’ve got some in big areas of games, but there’s some throughout those games that go against us as well,” Couture said.

In the first round, the Sharks trailed the defending conference champion Golden Knights 3-0 in the third period of Game 7 before scoring four times on a five-minute power play stemming from a controversial major penalty.

In the next round, a tying goal by the Avalanche was waved off in Game 7 on an offside challenge involving Gabriel Landeskog, who was leaving the ice.

The latest call may have had the most impact simply because it ended the game. Unlike the Knights or Avs, the Blues had no time to recover.