San Jose – History suggests that victories could be rare for San Jose Sharks by the end of the regular season.
It would certainly be difficult to argue that the Sharks, already with the least NHL victories, improved in a team after having surprisedly experienced their first score defender and one of their best scorers, as well as some other veterans players before the NHL commercial deadline.
That said, Sharks can always control their work ethics, and it was not a problem on Saturday evening. The score was, however, because the Sharks only succeeded in the power of power of Nikolai Kovalenko and Will Smith during a 4-2 defeat against the New York Icelanders at the SAP Center.
The Sharks exceeded the Icelanders 20-8 in the first, but have always followed 2-0 after a power game goal in Anthony Duclair on a washer for a washer and a goal equal to Jean-Gabriel Pageau with 39 seconds before the intermission.
Kovalenko’s goal occurred at 6:27 of the second period on a power game of Sharks.
A few moments after Macklin Celebrini won a game in the Icelanders area, he checked the washer and found the Shakir Mukhamadullin defender at the point, which fired a shooting that Kovalenko obtained a stick for his first goal since January 4.
The Sharks exchanged five players during the 48 hours preceding the expiration date on Friday NHL, sending free agents without restrictions in the long restriction VANECEK and Nico Sturm to the Florida Panthers and Luke Kunin to the Blue Jackets Columbus. Unexpected movements occurred when Jake Walman, the best offensive defender of the team, and Fabian Zetterlund, were sent to teams.
Walman was exchanged at Edmonton’s Oilers on Thursday and Zetterlund, in the most shocking trade, was exchanged to the Senators of Ottawa.
Last year, after Tomas Hertl was transmitted to the Vegas Golden Knights and to Duclair at the Lightning of Tampa Bay before the deadline for exchanges, the Sharks went 4-14-2, after the commercial deadline for last season, when Timo Meier was exchanged at the Devils of New Jersy, the Sharks have again won four of their last 20 games.
The Sharks hope to do a little better this season, but it will be a challenge.
“We are going to focus on one day,” said Sharks coach of the first year Ryan Warsofsky. “We have a match tonight against the New York Icelanders. We will compete as hard as possible, which we have done the majority of the season. I always say that you cannot control the result. We can control our process to get there. We can control our efforts. We can control the payment of the price to win hockey matches. We can control our attitude and energy as a group, and it will be the main objective. »»
Saturday’s match was the opening of an eight eight games for the Sharks which did not end before March 29. Their next match is on Tuesday against Nashville predators.
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