San Jose -The San Jose -sharks are too used to being out of the playoff picture right now of the season, and in recent times it has probably been guilty of just playing out the string.
While the last sharks are across the corner in the identical situation this season in the identical situation and the NHL trade period, such a lukewarm attitude of the condition of their reconstruction and the younger players on the squad-now is completely avoiding.
“We have 25 games to really do and be competitive,” said Shark's coach Ryan Warsofsky on Tuesday. “I thought there was only in recent years that you only get through the games and reached the end of the season. We try to take part in competitions. “
The story indicates that it will be a challenge, especially with the sharks (15-35-7), which is expected to discharge more corpses from 8-25-6.
Every year the Sharks experienced a defeat of nine games and lost nine games with three or more goals.
Although there is no guarantee that the shark's record will be better this season, they want to avoid at least the same moral, one -sided losses. Part of it is on the relative youth on the squad, including the development of rookies Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Collin Graf and other gene Z players such as William Eklund and Henry Thrun.
Nobody may be crushed regularly.
Warsofsky said this year's squad will be “probably younger if we get under control all week and in the next few weeks, and I am sure that we want to see some people who want to see (in the AHL) that We (in the AHL) want to see with the (Barracuda) before hopefully making your playoff run.
“So there will be mistakes. There will be puck play errors. There will be systematic errors. As a coaching employee, we will continue to teach and train you and drive them forward and promoting profit habits and basic habits. So if we arrive next year, you can (we can) run the ground. “
After the NHL held its schedule for the 4-nation view, the Sharks' practice marked the first time on Tuesday that they had been together on February 8 since its 8: 3 defeat against the Dallas Stars. The loss was the tenth in their last 11 games, since they fell in the overall ranking of the NHL in the overall ranking of the NHL.
The break was urgently needed – physically and mentally – since the sharks have only won five out of 27 games in the Colorado Avalanche since the Handelstorwart Mackenzie Blackwood on December 9th.
“It was great,” said Shark's Rookie Center Macklin Celebrini. “It certainly benefited me. I have the feeling that it helps to get a little time after the first half of the year to refresh a kind of refreshment. “
The sharks are supposed to practice every day this week before leaving seven games to a discouraging road trip on Saturday, which starts on Sunday with games in Calgary and on Monday Winnipeg.
On Tuesday morning, Warsofsky met with the Leadership Group of the Sharks and articulated its expectations for the last two months of the season.
“We are not here to play around. We want to try to get better every day, ”said Shark's winger Tyler Toffoli. “We said that every one yr round. We just need to make our game constant and it starts with the training. “
The sharks welcomed injured veteran centers Alexander Wennberg and Nico Sturm back to training on Tuesday. Sturm has missed eight games in the injured reserve in a row since January 22, and Wenberg missed four games in a row with a problem with the upper body. Both were complete participants in the training on Tuesday and are on the right track according to Warsofsky to play this weekend.
Wenberg and Sturm, who have 34 points together this season, will not solve all the problems of the sharks, but should be a numerous team that was the leading goal scorer Mikael Granlund and the top pair defender Cody Ceci.
In training on Tuesday, Wenberg centered the second line with Fabian Zetterlund and Will Smith on the wings, and Sturm, a pending Ufa, who could be on the move before the deadline, centered the third line with his wings Luke Kunin and Collin Graf.
“Loads has happened, Real the Blackwood would exchange,” said Warsofsky. “You exchange our start goalkeeper, then lose (granlund and ceci) and not only good players, but also good people, and that affects them. We hit our stomach there and influenced our game.
“Although we sometimes competed, we sometimes escape games. And now we have to reset. These boys moved on; We also have to continue. This is the business in which we are in. “
Increasing injury: Warsofsky said that striker Nikolai Kovenko (upper body) will probably be available to play again before defender Jan Rutta (lower body) can return. Kovenko, who had missed the last three games before the break, drove on Tuesday morning and if he was not on the team's flight to Calgary on Saturday, he could partially connect the team through the road trip, said Warsofsky.
Rutta, a pending Ufa, missed the last six games before the break, and his injury lasts longer than expected. Warsofsky said it was too early to say whether Rutta on the journey, which lasts until March 6, can join the sharks in some unspecified time in the future.
Remarkable: The sharks remembered by Graf and Jack Thompson from Barracuda on Tuesday. Thompson was combined with Shakir Mukhamadullin during training.
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