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Hitting the Fan
Two players gone, losses mount, goals hard to come by
| 11/24/14 - By Paul Krill -
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It looks like panic is starting to set in. Or at
least it should be. We're seeing players shipped out. Jason Demers is gone,
Adam Burish as well. Who will be next? Meanwhile, losses keep piling up, the
Sharks rarely score goals and the team has won just two of seven home games
this season. Maybe they should go back out on the road?
Of course, the
sellout streak is over as well. I wasn't there last Thursday, but I'm told
empty seats were plentiful, even if the official count had 99.1 percent of
seats being sold. And who can blame fans for not wanting to brave the rain to
watch a team that, well, is just not as good as what we've seen in recent
years? Last Saturday's game didn't sell out, either. No more automatic sellouts
for the Sharks; ticket demand clearly is down.
The Sharks have no one
to blame but themselves for this, given the lingering sting of last season's
embarrassing playoff exit and this season's sputtering start. Fans have to be
getting tired of so few goals and constantly making the other teams'
goaltenders look like Hall of Famers night after night.
It sure looks like this sub-.500 team really could
miss the playoffs this year. Of course, it's way too early to tell. But the
Sharks are going to need a dramatic turnaround if this season is to be saved. A
season that started out so well, with the Sharks registering shutouts in their
first two games, has clearly taken a turn for the worst.
At least the
Sharks just ended a streak of seven straight games with two goals or fewer. The
Sharks finally reached the three-goal "milestone" this past Saturday in a game
they never led, facing Arizona, another sub-.500 team, at home.
The
biggest worry is not that this team is not playing up to its abilities. No, the
biggest worry is, in fact, that this team may very well be playing up to its
abilities. And that has left us with loss after loss, perhaps with many more to
come. We'll see if the Sharks can fix this mess.
Contact Paul at
at paulkrill@letsgosharks.com
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