I don't see them adding a top six forward, i haven't look at who might be available, but i think the price will be to high to get a player that will significantly improve the team, unless they are really all in, but it kind of hard to do that after you look at the standings. When you say 7 points out it might not seem like that much, but when you look at how many teams they would have to leapfrog, its not looking good. If sharks miss playoffs, I think Wilson will make some changes, i don't see a tear down or sell off happening like some fans are calling for. If they miss again next year then there might be some big changes. This could just be a down year, it happens, and they could be right back in it next season.

Reminder that you guys played Columbus who have been decent as of late but still aren't great.

I'd say stay the course for the rest of the season. Call up some young guys to see what they are capable of. Problem is Ottawa bled the cupboard dry of prospects and players with the Karlsson trade so they are limited in who they call up. Chmevelski, maybe? SJS has the same problem as LAK. Aging vets on bad contracts with no cap space. Problem is SJS hasn't won anything to warrant suffering through the contracts.

They have a few guys they could sell to recuperate picks in either this year or next years draft (M. Karlsson/Dillon). Won't get a 1st unless they sell someone with term left (Meier/Hertl).

DellaJones have been less than NHL capable goaltenders for the past few years with a few flashes of being decent in the playoffs so I don't know where you're getting this information that they are suddenly good. Head coaching has little effect on goaltending performance and I would argue that Dellajones got Deboer fired. Bad goaltending can make a good team horrible.

They have little wiggle room when it comes to cap space so you can't exactly bring in someone of value at less than 1.5M either.

They went from a combined at .870 to like a combined .920. Wasn’t there fault, they had a bad system in front of them