![]() Status quo: Spends the season as one of the club’s six best options to play every night. Step back: Spends most of the campaign fighting for playing time. His passion and energy are important, and figuring out a way for him to play his style but also be steadier could be a key development next year. He’s in a weird spot, because he’s going to continue to play a ton of minutes, maybe even more if Karlsson does move on. ![]() The Sharks actually need him to improve in his own end and his ability to help transition the team to offense more than they need extra goals and points. ![]() He finished the year with Matt Benning, and that might be something worth trying to ride with next year, both for Ferraro’s development and the club.įerraro still believes he can contribute more offensively. After playing with Brent Burns a lot in recent seasons, Ferraro had a rotating door of partners. Step forward: Plays well, tilts the ice in San Jose’s favor when he’s on the ice … suits up for 70 games for the first time since his Ottawa days.īig step forward: A legitimate All-Star game candidate, earns some down-ballot Norris Trophy votes.ħ2 games, 4 goals, 11 points, 66 shots on goal, 21:36īoth of the “step back” and “status quo” requirements were met. Status quo: Plays well, tilts the ice in San Jose’s favor when he’s on the ice … misses 20-plus games again. Step back: Fails to regain the early-season form he had a year ago. Here’s how things went for the forwards, which we detailed in Part 1. It’s fair to say that most of the people who voted in our preseason Sharks community expectations project were way off on both players. That streak ended this season, which ended up being his worst in the NHL. Stability and consistency were part of his biggest strengths. The only other goalie who had the same streak of consistency was Marc-Andre Fleury, though Sergei Bobrovsky and Semyon Varlamov just missed. The veteran goalie had played 12 seasons in the NHL, and finished each of them with a save percentage of. The other end of the spectrum was Reimer. But doing it while your team finishes 29th in a 32-team league is certainly a unique achievement. Paul Coffey got to 100 in 1989-90, and the Penguins finished 17th in a 21-team league. Karlsson wasn’t the first to do it for a non-playoff team. Three of the other five finished fourth, fifth and sixth. Seven times, that defenseman’s team finished first in the NHL standings. Defensemen have scored 100-plus points 15 times in league history. Sportsnet was the first to report Boughner's firing.It’s not just that Karlsson finished with 101 points, becoming only the sixth defenseman to reach the century mark. San Jose is paying defensemen Erik Karlsson, Brent Burns and Marc-Edouard Vlasic - all over the age of 32 - a combined $26.5 million against the salary cap through 2025. They have a veteran corp of players with various levels of trade protection in their contracts. Once a dominant force in the Western Conference, the Sharks have missed the playoffs for three straight seasons, the longest drought in franchise history. Making the call on Boughner as the calendar flips to July hinders his ability, and that of his staff, to find NHL jobs for next season. There currently is only one other head-coaching job available, as the Winnipeg Jets have yet to hire for their vacancy. ![]() Eight NHL head-coaching jobs have been filled. Both would be first-time general managers.īoughner's firing comes late in the offseason for a coaching change. Multiple reports indicate that former Sharks players Ray Whitney and Mike Grier are among the finalists. The decision comes as the Sharks have narrowed the field for their vacant general manager position. Assistant coaches John Madden and John MacLean also were not retained. He previously coached the Florida Panthers for two seasons, taking over when Pete DeBoer was fired after 33 games in the 2019-20 season.īoughner had one more year on his contract at $1.5 million. The San Jose Sharks have fired head coach Bob Boughner and his staff, an NHL source confirmed to ESPN on Friday.īoughner, 51, had been San Jose's coach for parts of three seasons, amassing a 67-85-23 record and failing to make the Stanley Cup playoffs each time.
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