SAN JOSE - Other than a maybe a handful of players, there probably wasn’t too much apprehension in the Sharks’ dressing room in the days and weeks leading up to the NHL trade deadline on Wednesday. The team has a comfortable lead in the Pacific Division, is a lock to make the playoffs again, and is, of course, coming off its first-ever trip to the Stanley Cup Final last June. The core has shown it can make a deep run.
There were not going to be any drastic overhauls of the roster, considering, too, that the team prides itself on having a tightly knit dressing room.