On the eve of the Sharks’ playoff opener, the status of Joe Thornton and Logan Couture, two of their best players, remained the same.
“Both of those guys, like I’ve said all along, are day-to-day,” Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said Tuesday. “They both looked good at practice, but that will be a game-time decision.”
That decision comes Wednesday when the Sharks meet the Oilers in Edmonton in Game 1 of their first-round Western Conference series.
The Sharks are the defending Western Conference champions, but stumbled into the playoffs. Even after having won three of their final four games, San Jose lost nine of its last 13.