The San Jose Sharks find themselves fin-deep in a season-high six game losing streak (0-5-1), following a 3-2 home loss to the Detroit Red Wings.

Detroit grabbed a 1-0 lead just 38 seconds into the first period, stretching that lead to 3-0 by the third period before the Sharks decided to turn up the heat on offense. It was too little too late and once again San Jose failed to game any ground on the Flames.

San Jose trails Calgary by six points for first place and leads Vegas by five points in the standings. All three of the top teams in the Pacific Division lost in regulation on Monday night. The Flames lost 3-0 at home to the suddenly hot Los Angeles Kings. St. Louis knocked off Vegas by a score of 3-1.

Evander Kane and Tomas Hertl scored both of San Jose's goals and Martin Jones made 20 saves in another losing effort.

As the playoff races heat up...the Sharks are ice cold.

The Sharks are bruised and battered, but they are still the mighty, battle-tested San Jose Sharks. Injuries or not, they cannot lose to three of the worst teams in the league - in a row - this late in the season.

You cannot pin Monday nights loss on Martin Jones alone. Jones was hung out to dry by the defense on all three goals. Marty's having enough trouble stopping the puck as is. He doesn't need his defense gifting the other team high-danger chances on the regular.



Ugh....

And as I've mentioned before, the offense is dryer than the Salton Sea in the summer. Look up and down the lineup and it becomes clearer as to why this is happening.

- Joonas Donskoi hasn't scored a goal in 29 games.

- Joe Pavelski missed his fourth consecutive game.

- Logan Couture has two goals in the last six games and is a combined minus-8.

- Gus Nyquist, the deadline acquisition, only has three goals and a Shark, and none in the last six games.

- Kevin Labanc's managed to score a measly three goals over his last 17.

- Evander Kane, one goals in eight games.

- Tomas Hertl, one goal and one apple in his last seven games.

and so on and so on.

Perhaps they only Sharks' player putting points on the board is Brent Burns (points in 5 straight). This guy is having another career year offensively. Burns is a beauty.

Once the playoffs begin, I believe the Sharks will be fine. But, right now they are not passing the eye test and that's what San Jose fans show be scared of. This league is too competitive to not be at your best every night.

Thanks for reading,
Steve

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