SAN JOSE - On the morning of a recent Sharks-Oilers game in Edmonton on March 30, coach Todd McLellan popped out of a side door for his daily pregame media availability.
Before getting started, though, McLellan made sure to shake hands with and in some cases give a big bear hug to some members of the Sharks’ team staff and broadcast personnel with which he had spent seven years.
It was only a brief moment in time before McLellan was all business in answering questions from the press pool, but there’s no doubt that the Sharks’ all-time winningest coach still has emotional ties to the organization that gave him his first chance as a head coach.