Well, I’m not quite sure what to tell you. One of the few teams that has been worse than the San Jose Sharks this season was the Ottawa Senators. The very same Ottawa Senators that were proverbially scrap-heaped last season for draft picks and futures and contracts that didn’t cost quite so much. And yet, a 5-2 score line and another pile of unblocked shots directly in front of San Jose’s net glare back at us, daring us to make assumptions other than “this team is bad.”
Against one of the only other teams in the league that has performed worse in 5-on-5 shot and expected goal differential, the Sharks were average, at best.