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The Situation In San Jose

06/19/2014 at 2:17pm EDT

from James A. Conley of Shnarped,

The Sharks have posted franchise valuation increases in every season since 2006 and hold the league’s second-longest playoff appearance streak at 10 seasons and counting.

The hockey is good in San Jose, and the fans are good as well — better than 97 percent attendance in 2013-14 for a franchise that is among hockey’s newest in a market that is one of its most unproven.

Like Pittsburgh, San Jose has a good product on the ice (if one that doesn’t always live up to expectations). But now, like Pittsburgh, the Sharks could be entering a period of turmoil off the ice.

It took a few years of viable hockey to turn Pittsburgh’s business model into a good one. Over the last decade, few teams can match the Sharks’ level of sustained success.

So if the on-ice product in San Jose is good (and it is), why are the Sharks suddenly in danger of being swept up by the NHL’s business undertow?

Certainly, a poorly negotiated television deal can’t be the straw that’s breaking the Sharks’ back?

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from the Monterey Herald,
Sharks coach Ron Wilson might wait until Wednesday to decide whether Evgeni Nabokov or Nolan Schaefer starts that night in Dallas, but in either case he is looking for one goalie to get a hot hand. If Schaefer gets the call and performs well, Wilson said he would stick with the rookie for a bit. Schaefer is 5-1 with a 1.94 goals-against average. ''We have to persevere and play through this,'' Wilson said Monday of the club's nine-game losing streak. ''I don't have a definitive answer on who should play goal in Dallas or what's the best way to get Nabby back on top of his game. Is it to play him through it and live with the results? Or do you make a goaltending change? Is that the right way?
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