SAN JOSE – Coincidentally enough, new Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer was working with Todd McLellan for Team Canada at the World Championships in Prague when general manager Doug Wilson first called him about the position that had been recently vacated in San Jose.
Heck, for all we know, McLellan was in earshot of DeBoer’s iPhone ringtone when Wilson’s 408 area code showed up on the caller ID.
But rather than pepper McLellan with questions about the state of the Sharks franchise – and there is certainly no shortage of those – DeBoer decided he was better off forming his own opinion while pondering the open job in San Jose.