San Jose Sharks Playoff Chances Dwindling
The San Jose Sharks playoff chances are starting to fade, and it’s due to GM Doug Wilson’s lack of killer instinct. After yesterday’s trade deadline feeding frenzy the Sharks could have strengthened their chances of making it in the NHL Playoffs. But, they chose to be respectful and not attempt to move some assets that would have strengthened them for years to come.
San Jose is not going to skate with the Stanley Cup this year, and unless Wilson and his front office realize that sometime it’s just business they won’t be
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champions anytime soon. It’s a well know problem within the Sharks locker room that their two greatest assets both have no-trade clauses.
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could have brought in a king’s ransom if moved, but Wilson hasn’t even considered asking about waving the clauses.
"Players would have to come to me,” Wilson said. “The integrity of building that type of contract with those types of players, they would have to come to me. I’ve been very transparent on where this team is at, and where it’s going. They have a clause that’s in their contract, and I at no point have ever asked either one of them. CSNBA"
Wilson went on the record during an interview CSN Bay Area that it’s a matter of integrity. It’s that very integrity that is asking the San Jose Sharks playoff chances dwindle. I understand the “good faith” that is put in a contract like the ones that Thornton and Marleau have earned, but there comes a point in a franchise’s life line that it needs to be about the business of winning; not surviving.
With 70 points and an aging roster the Sharks are looking up at a three point climb just to make the wild card spot. When the NHL trade deadline comes around
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most teams attempt to maneuver into better positions for the remaining year or following years, but the Sharks only made a few small moves that really amount to nothing.
San Jose is a franchise that a lot of NHL teams would like to be they have had regular season success, but that success but hasn’t really translated into Playoff success. I thought for the longest time that the Sharks were a player or two away from contending. But, after hearing that video and seeing how this season has not gone well; I’m left wondering if their GM is really the problem.
Chum rolls down hill and now it’s up to the ownership group to prove they want to swim with the big boys. It’s time to wave good bye to Wilson and find someone with the Stanley Cup as their only concern.