If the Sharks are going to make a turnaround quickly, it’s clear that a change needs to happen in net. For the last few seasons, they’ve made it clear that Martin Jones is still their guy, but the 2020 season started to see that change in a post-Pete DeBoer (and perhaps most importantly, a post-Johan Hedberg) era Sharks goal-crease.
With more games under his belt, and the beloved Evgeni Nabokov taking over from Hedberg as the goaltending coach, Aaron Dell showed that there might still be a bit of fire in the man who was once the World’s Okay-est Goalie.