It’s maddening to watch a team do the same thing and expect different results. It happened last night as the Vegas Golden Knights dealt the San Jose Sharks their worst home-opener loss in literally forever. The Sharks tried to do something, anything, against the swarming Knights. They made life difficult on themselves by not helping their defensemen out on breakouts amid constant forecheck-induced duress, by resorting to slapshots from the point when their offense was frustrated, and devolving into fisticuffs when they were frustrated.
The Sharks team last night looked like that which was beat early in last spring’s playoff quarterfinal series against these very Knights.