SAN JOSE -- Suffice to say, the Sharks have a list of things they need to work on with just five games left in the regular season and a losing streak they just can’t snap. One of them is how they’ve been starting off games -- the problem of getting behind on the scoreboard and then having trouble reacting.
“That’s probably the thing we’ve struggled with most as a group all year,” Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said earlier this week. “Our reaction to getting behind in games. It’s usually to open it up and take chances, and it’s bitten us almost every time we’ve done it.