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The Sharks should be surging up, but instead, they’re as down as they have been all season.
Rock-bottom was San Jose's 7-3 loss to the Calgary Flames at SAP Center Tuesday night. This followed a 5-2 defeat to the same Flames team on Sunday night.
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SIGN UP HERE “I just kind of sensed before the game, and you could see it certainly after the start, that there wasn’t a lot of [belief],” head coach David Quinn intimated today. “I could read the body language. We don’t have Hertl. We don’t have Kunin. We just got beat. We’re off to this [bad start].”
The gains made over the last two weeks during San Jose's four-game point streak, punctuated by victories over cellar-dwellers Anaheim Ducks and Arizona Coyotes, seem lost.
“Today I thought for the first time [this season], we just looked scared at times,” Nico Sturm confessed. “Certainly being down 2-0 after 15 seconds or whatever, it certainly doesn’t help, right? You don’t have any confidence with the puck when you get it. Guys are scared to make the next mistake being down 3-0.”
So where do the Sharks turn to from here?
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