DENVER — “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
“We’ll light the fire during break, and then we’ll come ready to rage in the second half.”
Poet Dylan Thomas and new Sharks winger Kiefer Sherwood are of the same mind.
The Sharks lost 4-2 at the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday, and go into the Olympic break on a four-game swoon. They’re now five points out of the last wild card berth in the Western Conference.
But it’s not the defeat itself that was so disappointing—Colorado, after all, is the best team in the NHL—it’s how San Jose lost.
Through two periods, the Sharks were completely outclassed, outshot 31-13, down only 2-0 because of Yaroslav Askarov’s heroics. It was JV versus varsity.
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