So I don't want to Jinx Myself.... but I predicted a 19-11-5 record come Christmas time.

So, on Nov 17 (just a little over a month ago), it seemed like our team was imploding. There was a lot of talk about making changes, and a lot of talk about how bad this team was playing (and I must admit that I was one of them). I made what some would call a bold prediction at the time.

By now we have all heard about how awful the road trip was (16 out of 21 games to start the season). But at the time, a casual fan of the sharks may not have fully understood those implications.

At the time the sharks held a 10-8-2 record that would give us 90.2 points averaged over a season (8th place in the east had 91 points last year, so there would have been a decent chance of not making the playoffs with that record).

I predicted 19-11-5 by Christmas time, (and if we are lucky, I will have underestimated the sharks when they steal 2 points from Anaheim to go 20-11-4 for 45 points. Should they win on Monday night, they will have 44 points in 35 games for an average of 103 points on the season (enough to get them in 6th place last year, but possibly higher this year).

So what does this all mean?
Well, at times it can be really frustrating watching your team when they are not playing up to your expectations. That has certainly happened this year with the Sharks: we have a team that has made the playoffs (often in dominating fashion) in every single post-lockout year.

Watching them play bad isn't fun, but remember these are 82 game seasons; there are going to be good times and there are going to be bad times, but stick it out. As we have witnessed in the past to games; this team can come back to surprise you in magnificent ways.