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Ed Vlasic is hoping the San Jose Sharks don’t get swept in the Stanley Cup final.

Vlasic and his wife, Marie-Josée Lord, have already made plans to travel from Montreal to Pittsburgh for Game 5 Thursday night to watch their son, Marc-Édouard Vlasic, play for the Sharks. But the Penguins hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series heading into Game 3 Saturday night in San Jose (8 p.m., CBC, TVA Sports, TSN Radio 690) and a sweep is possible.

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“Hopefully, there is a Game 5,” Ed said.

In a poll on the Montreal Gazette’s hockeyinsideout.com website, 66 per cent of voters said they want to see the Sharks win the Stanley Cup. That might have something to do with the fact Marc-Édouard grew up on Montreal’s West Island and started playing organized hockey at age 5 in Pointe-Claire with his father as coach.

By age 7, Marc-Édouard was good enough to get bumped up to the novice A level, which is normally reserved for 9-year-olds. Marc-Édouard eventually advanced to the midget Triple-A Lac St. Louis Lions, where Guy Boucher was his coach and one of his biggest supporters. It was Boucher — the new head coach of the Ottawa Senators — who convinced Patrick Roy and his Quebec Remparts to pick the defensive-minded defenceman in the fourth round (64th overall) at the 2003 QMJHL draft.