San Jose Sharks—Detroit Red Wings: Sharks Have No Bite

Evgeni Nakokov had a rough night, and it is understandable that he would look exasperated. It is just that sometimes it looked like he had his eyes closed while facing shots. The Sharks already had a tough road to hoe. Playing in the second consecutive night—an overtime game, no less—and having to travel in between. That would make any foe, much less the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings, tough to overcome, especially at Joe Louis Arena. But there are many ways in which the Sharks made things harder for themselves. For instance, as Coach Todd McLellan pointed out in the interview before the third period, the Sharks were not getting the puck deep. They were constantly on their heels because they did not make the fresher Wings turn to chase the puck. In perhaps the worst example of this, Marcel Goc threw a puck up the middle that Pavel Datsyuk easily intercepted for an unassisted goal to make it 5-0 and eliminating any possibility of this not being an embarrassment. ... (link)