Are The Sharks Mentally Fatigued?

Despite outshooting the Avalanche quite heavily over the course of the last three games, the Sharks have been unable to put many pucks past Craig Anderson. Fear The Fin examines the possibility of mental fatigue.

As much as some like to say that this is a different team this year, and it most definitely is on a strictly personnel level, it’s hard to think that the mental side of the ledger will not be a factor tonight. A revamped bottom six that has made a huge impact in the last week. A forty goal-scorer in Dany Heatley, a jack of all trades in Manny Malhotra. These are players who have changed the makeup of this team for the better. But in the Pepsi Center, these new faces don’t matter. It is an organizational burdn they carry, one that every single man wearing teal and white will lug around like an anchor until the results match the effort and heart they have displayed since losing on a fluke bounce in game one. San Jose has outclassed Colorado for huge blocks at a time and yet trail the series by a game. It is beyond the realm of logic and compassion, residing somewhere in the vast expanse of dark space.