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The Sharks now have gone four games without a power-play goal, a season-long drought.
San Jose sure could have used a power-play goal (or two) Saturday night during its 4-2 loss to the Boston Bruins. Instead, the Sharks went 0 for 4 against the first-place Bruins and now haven't scored on their last 15 power plays.
This slump has brought to sharp relief an elephant in the room that has been ignored all season: The Sharks are a one-unit power play. If the top unit of Erik Karlsson, Alexander Barabanov, Timo Meier, Logan Couture and Tomas Hertl isn’t firing, the Sharks aren’t scoring on the power play.
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The last time that a Sharks player not in that top group scored a non-empty-net power-play goal was one month ago -- Kevin Labanc on Dec. 6 against the Buffalo Sabres. In total, the second unit has scored just four of San Jose’s 24 power-play goals -- a pair from Labanc and two from Luke Kunin, who suffered a season-ending ACL injury last month.