Hire a new coach they said. It’ll make a world of difference.
On Saturday night, the San Jose Sharks’ Martin Jones made 39 saves and beat the Minnesota Wild, 2-0.
Dean Evason lost his first game as the Wild’s new bench boss.
“You’d like it to be a little more positive,” Evason said. “But, yeah, it’s like once you get back in that spot when you’ve been there before, it feels right. It feels good. So it was nice to be behind the bench like that again.”
The game was scoreless until Dylan Gambrell scored in the early minutes of the third period.
“I think you’ve got to give credit to the players. Facing the injuries that we are facing, I think that little bit of adversity and [Jones] coming in there and doing the job, I know they wanted to play hard for him,” Sharks head coach Bob Boughner said. “I thought that we really defended well. We gave up 39 shots. They threw a lot at us. But I thought we played hard down low. I thought [Jones] made the saves that he had to.
“I think it’s a heck of a last couple days. Two tough buildings with teams that are fighting hard for a [Stanley Cup Playoff] spot.”
Melker Karlsson added an empty net goal to seal it.
“I think we just keep doing what we’re doing,” Gambrell said of being without Kane and Erik Karlsson. “Guys are really coming together in the locker room. Really supporting each other on the ice. Just working for each other.”
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Alex Stalock made 19 saves in the loss.
“Obviously you want to win, but right now, it’s about us in that room,” Stalock said. “That’s the message we got yesterday, is it’s all about the guys in this room. Right now, we’ve got to win games.
“Everybody knows this time of year is a tough time of year, but we’re still professional hockey players. We’ve got to play games and win games.”
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