Of the 14 remaining games on the schedule, the San Jose Sharks will be facing playoff-bound or bubble teams in eight of those games — including tonight, where they’ll host the Pacific Division’s third-place Edmonton Oilers. The team’s place in the standings isn’t secured, though it’ll be up to the struggling Vegas Golden Knights to get a four-point edge into order to bump Edmonton into a Wild Card, where they’d have to contend with the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars, who both have two games in hand.
A Sharks win tonight would help out the Golden Knights in that regard .