These are the dog days of summer, a time when Bay Area hockey aficionados can do nothing more than count down the days — 29 more till the first game of the exhibition season. To pass the time, you might check out bottom-six forward Marcus Sorenson doing leg lunges during a workout on his social media or resort to watching a game of baseball or spending time with your children.
Or we could reflect on the Joe Pavelski Era to determine whether the captain’s departure will be a foundation-shattering change (it won’t), or merely the next step in Doug Wilson’s “Reset and Refresh” philosophy.