SAN JOSE — One month into the 2018-19 season, the Sharks are still looking for answers to the major question that came out of the Erik Karlsson trade: who will fill Chris Tierney’s skates at third line center.
Adding Karlsson to an already-deep blue line required the Sharks (6-4-3) to open a hole elsewhere in the lineup as they traded Tierney, who gave the team one of the league’s deepest center alignments by anchoring the third line.
On Saturday, when the Sharks play their 14th game of the season against the Philadelphia Flyers (6-7) at SAP Center, head coach Pete DeBoer will audition a new third line center, sitting Antti Suomela, who’s held the job since training camp.