CSN Bay Area · May 29, 2016
Sharks have 'really come together' in making first-ever Final
PITTSBURGH – It looked like the end of the road for the Sharks’ core group after the 2014 playoff catastrophe to the Kings.
General manager Doug Wilson couldn’t get enough of the cameras and microphones in the subsequent summer months, coining such memorable phrases as “we now become a tomorrow team,” or the Sharks may have to take “one step backwards before taking two steps forward.” Or, that several players told him after the season they felt like “coworkers, not teammates.”
The writing was on the wall that a big move was coming, and that one or several key pieces was on their way out the door, no-trade clauses be damned.