The Sharks are undergoing a pretty rough stretch right now, which somewhat counterintuitively means it’s a great time for a long road trip. Whether it’s the half empty SAP Center or the nightlife on Santana Row (or more likely an anomaly that has nothing to do with anything) the Sharks have not played well at home this season.

San Jose is 4-9-0 at home while holding a 10-5-1 mark on the road — a little more nuance might reveal injuries play a role here (especially when the last homestand is concerned) but regardless, the Sharks could use a win tonight using whatever voodoo they need to use.

Tale Of The Tape

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14-14-1	Record	20-8-3
5th in Pacific	Rank	1st in Atlantic
53.7%	Score-Adj. Fenwick	51.5%
99.0	PDO	102.2
17.7	PP%	20.4
81.5	PK%	86.7

430PM PDT | Bell Centre | Montreal, Quebec
TV: CSN-CA | Radio: SJSharks.com, 98.5 KFOX
Know Your Enemy: Eyes On The Prize

Projected Sharks Lines

Tomas Hertl – Joe Thornton – Joe Pavelski

Melker Karlsson – Patrick Marleau – Joel Ward

Joonas Donskoi – Chris Tierney – Tommy Wingels

Matt Nieto – Dainius Zubrus – Mike Brown

Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun

Paul Martin – Brent Burns

Dylan DeMelo – Brenden Dillon

Martin Jones

Alex Stalock

Projected Canadiens Lines

Max Pacioretty – Tomas Plekanec – Paul Byron

Lars Eller – Alex Galchenyuk – Dale Weise

Tomas Fleischmann – David Dessharnais – Daniel Carr

Sven Andrighetto – Torrey Mitchell – Brian Flynn

Andrei Markov – P.K. Subban

Alexei Emelin – Jeff Petry

Nathan Beaulieu – Tom Gilbert

Dustin Tokarski

Mike Condon

Last Meeting

Storylines

• Interesting fact: The Sharks have not won in a while.
• It won’t be much easier against the Canadiens, who are actually quite good this year instead of being carried around by Price.
• People are pretty mad about Brent Burns’ defensive play, which I would comment on had I not died on the Brent-Burns-to-forward hill over a year ago./