Things have not been good in San Jose for the last two seasons. First they infamously drop a 3-0 series lead to eventual Cup champions Los Angeles, then they wholly fail to qualify for the playoffs. The one begets the other.
If the Sharks win one of the four games they lost to the Kings, we're not sitting here having a conversation about, “What's wrong with the Sharks?” because it's wholly likely nothing is wrong with the Sharks. As has happened so many times in the past, a team suffered a miserable defeat and panicked. That's all. Doug Wilson saw his team blow a 3-0 series lead to a lower-seeded team that also happened to be a division rival, and determined that what went wrong was not “The Kings are just so good that it was unavoidable,” or “That was some terrible luck for our very-good-to-great team,” or a combination of the two.