Especially after they traded Jumbo to San Jose, 23 games into the ’05-06 season. For what it’s worth, DeBoer, after the conference final win over St. Louis, said of the Sharks team he inherited: “They’d been well-coached. (He was dealt last June by L.A. to Boston in the Milan Lucic trade, and flipped four days later to San Jose for a first-round pick. (Also, Sullivan played 171 games over three seasons in San Jose, his first NHL club, and Sharks D-man Paul Martin played five seasons with the Penguins.) Here is one man’s prognostication of the storylines that will be ground into paste during all those travel-day plane flights.

Source: National Post May 27, 2016 22:18 UTC