The San Jose Sharks had a chance to go on the team’s longest win streak in years. Yes, you read that right, years. Instead, San Jose failed to show up and lost to the Calgary Flames 2-0 in an incredibly lackluster performance.

”We were awful tonight,” said Head Coach Ryan Warsofsky after the game.

It was similar to a sentiment Mario Ferraro had during the game when he told Randy Hahn and Jamal Mayers after the first period, “I don’t think we did one good thing out there.”

The Sharks just didn’t have it last night. Veteran teams figure out how to find it, especially when your goaltender is giving you a chance to win the way Yaroslav Askarov was last night. The Sharks’ core players are still too young and too inconsistent to know how to do that every night.

Playing down to the competition

They’re also too young to see last night’s game for what it was, a trap. Because they were most likely riding high after pulling out an unlikely win in Minnesota. They were undoubtedly feeling themselves after going on a four game win streak that included wins over the Florida Panthers and the Winnipeg Jets. They certainly weren’t looking out for the Calgary Flames who have the league’s worst record and rank 32nd in goals for as well as goal differential as a potential danger. So the Sharks didn’t show up.

What resulted was a perfect confluence of bad, that got even worse when Jeff Skinner went down on his first shift of the game.

Skinner had to be helped off the ice. He could not put any weight on his right leg as he went and he did not return to the game. There was no update on his condition from Warsofsky postgame. While we hope for the best, the way it looks likely means he’s out for weeks.

Looking at HockeyStatCards’ GameScore Impact Card you can see that with his limited ice time, Skinner was considered one of the “best” players on the ice for the Sharks last night.

William Eklund and Alex Wennberg were again, very good, as they had been in Minnesota. The team might need to look to them to determine how to find that consistency night after night.

Askarov should not pay for anything for the remainder of the road trip

I don’t care if it’s a pack of gum or a bottle of Dom Perignon, Askarov better see a teammate by his side offering to pay for it. In Minnesota, the Sharks at least had the decency to score and get the win after playing like crap for two periods and nearly wasting an excellent performance by the netminder. In Calgary, that was not the case.

Askarov is the only reason this game was not a blowout. Once again, he showed up big for the Sharks, stopping shot after shot and bailing out the Sharks after bad giveaways. The only goal that he gave up came on a bad giveaway when Sam Dickinson and Philipp Kurashev miscommunicated on who was taking the puck out of the Sharks’ zone and Blake Coleman decided if neither of them wanted it, well then he’d happily take it.

Things like that happen in a game, it’s how a team responds that matters and the fact that they continued to make stupid mistakes like that and poor giveaways after that one is what’s truly irksome about this game.

Askarov finished the night with 34 of 35 shots stopped and a 2.78 goals saved above expected according to MoneyPuck. Between last night and Tuesday night, he has 5.02 goals saved above expected.

Scoring summary San Jose Sharks at Calgary Flames Nov. 13, 2025

First period
No scoring

Second period
5:46 CGY Blake Coleman unassisted

Third period
19:55 CGY Samuel Honzek from Mikael Backlund into the empty net