Terrible situation in San Jose! Sharks can tie negative NHL record after embarrassing 10-goal drubbing

Nobody expected such a start of the season. The San Jose Sharks are not only at the very top of the NHL, but they can also break the historical record of the Canadian-American competition.

Ten games, ten losses, a horrific 10:45 record and a frightening zero in the win column. This is the current situation in San Jose, which is hopelessly at the bottom of the Western Conference with one point.

The Sharks earned that one point in the second game of the current season when they lost to Colorado 1:2 at home, but only after a shootout. But since then, including the opening game against Vegas, it’s been one clean loss after another.

However, David Quinn’s team suffered the biggest shame in their last game when they were blown out by Vancouver 10:1 on home ice. After twenty minutes the Canucks led 4: 0, after forty minutes they were 8: 0.

The Sharks managed to score one goal in the final minutes of the third period when Fabian Zetterlund scored on a power play at 56:12. The twenty-four-year-old Swede made at least one honorable save.

So will San Jose equal the NHL’s negative record? If they don’t beat Pittsburgh in their next home game, the Sharks will have eleven losses in a row.

The Arizona Coyotes recorded exactly that many losses in a row in the 2017-18 and 2021-22 seasons. Then in 1943/44, the New York Rangers.

So if the Sharks don’t want to equal this negative statistic, they need to win at home next time. Unconditionally. Moreover, the situation in the West looks like the closest competitors are four points away.

Fourteenth-place Calgary and thirteenth-place Edmonton have five points apiece. Chicago in thirteenth place has one more point, then Minnesota and Nashville have eight points after ten games.

Source: NHL