In San Jose, the spiral for the Sharks continued on Sunday night in a 3-1 loss to the visiting Vegas Golden Knights.
Malcolm Subban made 37 saves to get the win. 
He had to face 20 in the third period.
“He’s been excellent, (and) he played real strong tonight,” Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant said. “Both goaltenders were excellent in the hockey game; a 3-1 game could have been 7-5. Malcolm has been real strong for us.”
The Sharks are 1-8-1 in their last 10 games, and no number of coaching changes is going to make it any better in San Jose.
“It’s another one of those games we were in it, tied it up, and I thought positive things were going to come out of it,” Sharks associate coach Roy Sommer said. “And you’re waiting for the other shoe to fall, and sure enough, that’s what happened.”
Logan Couture had the Sharks’ lone goal.
“We’re not finding ways to get out of losing streaks,” Couture said. “Good teams stop those skids after two or three. They don’t extend them to five or six. Unfortunately, that’s where we’ve found ourselves a lot this year.”
Paul Stastny, Shea Theodore and Jonathan Marchessault scored for the Golden Knights.
“These are important games,” Subban said. “When it comes down to playoff time, these will be all tight games.”
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Aaron Dell made 34 saves in the loss.
“We’re a veteran team. I’d understand if we were dressing 10-12 rookies, but you can count the number of rookies on this team on one hand. … It is our veterans, not our young guys, who are making mistakes,” Couture said.
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