SAN JOSE — Having seen the Sharks lose their fifth consecutive game, including four straight on the road, general manager Doug Wilson said Thursday he finalized his decision to fire Pete DeBoer the day before on the team’s flight home from Nashville.
“I was sitting there and you could feel it,” Wilson said. “We were feeling pretty good about ourselves prior to that trip. But there was something that was lingering, There was something that wasn’t quite right.”
Wilson discussed the reasons for his dismissal of DeBoer at an afternoon news conference at SAP Center at the same time the Sharks introduced Bob Boughner as interim head coach.