The San Jose Sharks visit the Calgary Flames in the final game of the season.
The San Jose Sharks (19-53-9) visit the Calgary Flames (37-39-5) in the final game of the season.
It will be a battle of Bay Area natives in the crease tonight as Devin Cooley, raised in Los Gatos, will go against Dustin Wolf, raised in Gilroy.
Head coach David Quinn confirmed that the team's lineup will remain the same as it was in its last game against the Edmonton Oilers.
The Sharks fell 9-2 to the Oilers in a performance that Quinn wants to see each player get redemption.
"It's an opportunity for him to rebound. In fairness to him, we didn't give him a lot of help the other night," Quinn said about Cooley. "Hopefully, we'll play better in front of him and give him a fighting chance."
He had the same feelings about the lineup.
"From the get-go, we've got to be way more competitive," Quinn said. "We can sit here and talk about structural stuff, and all these things have crept into our game, but at the end of the day, we didn't want to skate, and if you don't want to skate, you're not going to have any success in anything that you're trying to accomplish. We talked about that this morning."
With the same lineup, the Sharks projected lines should look like this:
Eklund-Granlund-Zetterlund
Graf-Kunin-Kostin
Bordeleau-Sturm-Gushchin
Smith-Studnicka-Carpenter
Ferraro-Burroughs
Vlasic-Thompson
Thrun-Addison
Cooley
Romanov
Puck drop is at 6 p.m. and can be seen on NBC Sports California or the Sharks Audio Network.
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