SAN JOSE -- It’s never fun to see a winning streak come to an end. For the Sharks, it was a six-gamer that both started and ended with the Washington Capitals.
There was no complex reason why San Jose failed to dominate the defending Stanley Cup champions like they had dominated the few teams they had just faced on the road. Nobody on the team was going to point the finger or make excuses. The Sharks said it themselves -- they didn’t have that jump on Thursday night.
“We’ve had some pretty good nights in the last month, but tonight wasn’t our best,” Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said after the 5-1 loss.