Don’t panic.
I mentioned in a preview earlier this week (and haven’t been the only one to do so) that the last time the San Jose Sharks lost the first three games of a season was in 1993, and they lost eight. That Sharks team made the playoffs with 82 points before bowing out in seven in the second round to the Toronto Maple Leafs (and breaking my young heart. I really thought that was the year, but I was nine, and nine-year-olds are stupid). The league was different in the early nineties, though: a simpler time, when every game was worth exactly two points.