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The San Jose Sharks May Not Make The Playoffs

02/18/2015 at 10:30am EST

from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

The Sharks got crushed 5-1 in Nashville on Tuesday night, and they are lucky the score wasn't worse. It was men against boys.

The Sharks have won only twice in nine games in February (2-5-2) and are very much opening the door for the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars to catch them for the last wild-card spot in the West. San Jose (66 points) has played three more games than the red-hot Kings (64 points) and Wild (63 points) and two more games than the Stars (62 points), who picked up a huge win at St. Louis on Tuesday.

The Sharks, who have gotten younger over the past two years while GM Doug Wilson tries to rebuild on the fly without bottoming out, just don't look like a playoff team right now. They have not missed the postseason since Wilson took over as general manager in May 2003, an impressive run, but it feels like the streak might be ending.

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