Eerie similarities emerged this season between the Peter DeBoer-coached San Jose Sharks, and his previous stops with the Florida Panthers. Not only did DeBoer make some of the mistakes that had previously doomed him, the same factors outside of his control that played a role in his previous firings reappeared or appear on the horizon.
It would be foolish to fire the only coach to lead the Sharks to an appearance in the Stanley Cup Final because of that. But if DeBoer is unable to learn from his own mistakes, and if Doug Wilson and management cannot avoid the mistakes of management teams DeBoer worked under in the past?