Did the Sharks even play the Anaheim Ducks last season?
While Ducks fans would probably prefer to forget last season and especially the games against the Sharks, but what I’m actually getting at is that the Ducks were never fully healthy last year and the Ducks squad the Sharks faced weren’t quite the Ducks they knew.
The injury bug hasn’t seemed to go away yet and the Ducks’ core group of players is getting older. The franchise is going to be asking some big questions over the course of this season about the direction they’re heading and what they have to do to stay competitive in a division that is slowly getting stronger.