SAN JOSE – These are strange times for the San Jose Sharks.
On one hand, they’d like to be building their game this time of year with the playoffs approaching next week. In that regard, they were better on Thursday night against Edmonton in a 4-2 loss than they were in Tuesday’s ugly 3-1 win over a pathetic Vancouver team that managed to outplay them for the majority of the night.
On the other hand, though, there’s no sugarcoating the reality that without Joe Thornton and Logan Couture, they are going to have all kinds of trouble winning hockey games.