It doesn’t take much to ascend in the weak Pacific Division this season, and the San Jose Sharks bore that fact out over the course of the past week. The Sharks rode a three-game winning streak to rise up to a tie for second place in the division as San Jose now sits two games over the .500 mark (10-8-0) with 20 points.
It didn’t look good for the Sharks as they had a 1-3-0 home stand before embarking on their longest road trip of the season, a six-game trek through the Eastern Conference.