When the NHL announced that it would be moving to three-on-three overtime next season, with the aim of deciding games before they proceeded to a shootout, new Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer was a happy man.
In the last two-and-a-half seasons before he was fired by New Jersey last December, no team in the league was worse in the shootout than the Devils. In 30 games that advanced to the skills competition since the start of the shortened 2013 season, New Jersey won just four times.
That includes 2013-14, when the Devils somehow lost all 13 shootouts they were involved in.