SAN JOSE -– In the past 14 months, Sharks general manager Doug Wilson hasn’t exactly been media shy. Something had to change after his club experienced its lowest of lows in the 2014 playoffs, and he made that known on multiple occasions.
Those who have been paying attention know that the recently completed 2014-15 season wasn’t about trying to win the Stanley Cup -– it was about changing the culture of the dressing room, while concurrently providing younger players more of an opportunity.
It didn’t go very well. Only the dreadful Coyotes and Oilers finished with fewer points in the Western Conference than the 12th place Sharks, and there was an undercurrent of dysfunction flowing through the organization both on and off the ice.