I said from the start neither burns or karlsson will score 60 points this year and got called an idiot.
Yes.3 points in 4 games. Still think you are smart?
The seasons just started. Give it a few weeks and teams will settle in.
Yes.
Well this aged like shit.In my humble opinion, the Sharks are pretenders and Karlsson is lipstick on a pig.
Their core is getting old. Thornton, Burns, Pavelski, Vlasic are all on the wrong side of 30. The clock is ticking on their effectiveness big time.
Couture, Kane, and Hertl aren't good enough to carry the offense.
Who knows if Karlsson will be back next year.
Come January everyone will know it's time for them to re-build.
Oh weird. I thought it was just when they played the Knights.According to what I read, the refs are against them - at least when they play the Kings - so the odds are stacked against them, apparently.
It's not even that the sharks had a big game. It's that they have basically dominated the rest.
They aren't running at full chemistry obviously. But they have been the better team almost every period so far
Interesting thread....
If they run into a guy like Gibson every game, like when they played us, it’ll be a tough year.
Sharks looked good, we outgoalied them
Karlsson 2 points in 4 games, sharks lost the trade
I just went back and checked, you are right. They were above average (100.5), but not by much. I remember looking at it before and seeing it higher, but maybe that was earlier in the season before it normalized. Oh, and William Karlsson's absurdly unsustainable 23.4% shooting percentage last year. If he gets more than 30 goals this year I'll eat my hat.
This statement is more accurate: The worst PDO for any team since it was a tracked stat (07-08 season was the first), not including the shortened season, was the 16-17 Colorado Avalanche at 96.6. That year the Avs had the leagues worst shooting percentage at 7.2% and the leagues worst save percentage at 0.894. Their record that year was 22 wins and 56 losses for 48 points. The Sharks PDO over 3 games is more than 3 times further from the average than the Avs of that season (3.4 vs 11.7). Their current rate is a statistical anomaly and will correct itself over the next few games. To think it wouldn't would be the same thinking as if you flipped a coin three times and it landed heads all three times so you assume you will always continue to flip heads from then on.
A fun math experiment was this hypothetical: What if their shooting and save percentages were reversed? The Sharks have 101 shots for, 5 goals for, 4.95% shooting percentage, 66 shots against, 11 goals against, and 83.3% save percentage. If they had 101 shots for with 16.7% shooting, they would have ~17 goals for. If they had 66 shots against with 95.5% save, they would have ~3 goals against. If you saw a team win their first 3 games with a goal differential of 17-3, the first thing that comes into your head should be "unsustainable". Unless you think 465 goals for and 82 against sounds reasonable after 82 games!
my god, I just looked. You are correct. neither has scored 60 points this year.I said from the start neither burns or karlsson will score 60 points this year and got called an idiot.
If the Sharks play the Ducks and both teams play like they did in that game, the Sharks win 3/4 of those at minimum, even given that Gibson is better.
Remember, they completely demolished Gibson and swept the Ducks in the playoffs without Erik Karlsson or Joe Thornton.
There’s a talent-level threshold needed to be a contender. But the key is how a team gels and plays. Above the “contending” threshold, I’d say any team can come together and be great. At this point in the season, there are very few teams who are out of it. And they were out of it before the starting gun. (my Rangers, for one). The Sharks aren’t one of those teams. And with De boer at the helm I led bet they step up and make themselves into a big factor.In my humble opinion, the Sharks are pretenders and Karlsson is lipstick on a pig.
Their core is getting old. Thornton, Burns, Pavelski, Vlasic are all on the wrong side of 30. The clock is ticking on their effectiveness big time.
Couture, Kane, and Hertl aren't good enough to carry the offense.
Who knows if Karlsson will be back next year.
Come January everyone will know it's time for them to re-build.
Sharks core is so underrated in this board. I've said it before but I'll say it again, guys like Labanc, Meier, Donskoi, Hertl are all good players with room to keep growing. Kane has been a beast, pavelski looks vastly better without Thornton, the defense is top 3 in the league. If Jones can be playoff Jones I don't see how San Jose isn't a contender.