ANAHEIM — Pete DeBoer says the “million-dollar question” in the Sharks opening round series with the Anaheim Ducks is whether Chris Tierney’s breakthrough season will carry into the Stanley Cup playoffs, giving his team the matchup edge it needs down the middle.
Good question. But it isn’t the million-dollar question.
The question that everyone in Sharks Territory is asking right now is a little more obvious: when is Joe Thornton returning to the lineup?
Thornton almost blew up the Twitter machine Thursday when he joined his Sharks teammates for pregame warmups in Anaheim, but it proved to be false hope.