Sharks GM on team: “We’ve become a pass-first team in a shoot-first league”
Mar 2, 2013, 10:06 AM EDT
AP Things haven’t gone well for the San Jose Sharks since they started off the season going 7-0-0. When that winning streak ended, the Sharks have gone just 2-7-3 and fallen on hard times.
As team GM Doug Wilson tells Kevin Kurz of CSNBayArea.com, problems are there with the team but nothing that can’t be fixed.
“We have to buy into doing the things that teams that are scoring and having success in this league are doing on a nightly basis, and we haven’t,” Wilson said.
“We’ve become a pass-first team in a shoot-first league.”
He’s not kidding about that as the Sharks’ offense has dried up. Patrick Marleau has taken heat for cooling off from his white-hot start, but the rest of the team isn’t potting goals either. During their brutal 12 game stretch they’ve scored just 15 goals and have been shutout twice. Six times they’ve scored just one goal. That’s not getting it done.
Wilson says they’re a “Jekyll and Hyde” team that he’d think was only Hyde if he hadn’t seen what they’re capable of. Scoring goals more regularly will help keep the ugly monster we’ve seen for the last month back in the bottle.
-
Video: Senators’ goalie Anderson stops Crosby on early breakaway
May 19, 2013, 9:33 PM EDT
Getty Images
Pittsburgh with the lead after two periods.
-
Getty Images
Big hit. Appeared clean, too.
-
Getty Images
Torres suspended for remainder of semifinal series.
-
Getty Images
LOOK OUT!
-
Rangers’ goaltending a concern? ‘We know what Henrik is,’ says Tortorella
May 19, 2013, 8:01 PM EDT
Getty Images
Needs to be better for Game 3.
-
Getty Images
Lighting it up right now.
-
Getty Images
Boston with three unanswered goals.
-
Getty Images
Rest of the night didn’t go so well.
-
Getty Images
New York trailed 2-0 in first-round series with Washington.
-
Getty Images
Canucks’ captain scores twice. Where was that in the playoffs?
-
Report: No supplemental discipline for Quick’s abuse of officials
May 19, 2013, 4:48 PM EDT
Getty Images
He escapes the league’s ire.
-
Getty Images
Brad Marchand might want a do-over.
-
Getty Images
A pair of young players led the way.
-
AP
Their youthful trio will play once again.
-
Getty Images
He was a healthy scratch in Games 1 and 2.
-
Quick assessed game misconduct for ‘abuse of officials’ after Game 3 loss
May 19, 2013, 1:09 PM EDT
Getty Images
He could face league discipline.
-
AP
He played just 15:37 in Game 2.
-
Getty Images
The playoffs haven’t been kind.
-
Playoffs tonight: Spezza’s Game 3 return, Bruins-Rangers highlight your Sunday
May 19, 2013, 10:30 AM EDT
AP
A pivotal Game 3 awaits in Ottawa.
-
Kings’ Scuderi took the diplomatic route complaining about Game 3 calls
May 19, 2013, 9:54 AM EDT
Getty Images
Veteran d-man kept it mellow.
