I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.
The San Jose Sharks (0-2-0, 8th Pacific) head south to face the Anaheim Ducks (1-0-0, 3rd Pacific) after dropping a humiliating pair of contests to the Vegas Golden Knights to open the season winless.
There are two main ways to react to this kind of start to the season:
The first way, and probably the most fun way, is to lose our collective minds. We can conclude that the youth movement has failed, that the losses of Joe Pavelski and Joonas Donskoi have crippled this team on and off the ice, that the window is closed, we should punt the whole season, draft Alexis Lafreniere, and start the whole thing over.