SAN JOSE – When you’re a team that has just one practice over a 16-day span, the details of your game are inevitably going to slip.
Nowhere has that been more evident for the Sharks than on their power play. In their last nine games since Dec. 9, San Jose is just 4-for-35 (11.4 percent) with a man advantage. Tuesday’s game in Anaheim was perhaps their most futile effort to date, as they went 0-for-4 with just four shots in eight minutes while giving up a handful of shorthanded chances the other way.
Ahead 2-1 with a chance to increase the lead in the third period after Andrew Cogliano’s high-sticking minor, the Sharks didn’t register a single shot on goal, while Anaheim’s Kevin Bieksa nearly converted on a two-on-one the other way.