by Ivan Markarov

SAN JOSE–Talk about firing San Jose Sharks head coach Todd McLellan is not in the cards right now, it was floated during the time when the Sharks had lost three games at home then they came back and won two straight against Anaheim 6-4 on Sunday night and then against the Philadelphia on Tuesday night 2-1, that might have made the difference for McLellan.

There’s a lot of the season left this is only the third month and the Sharks have a lot of home games left until Christmas and the jury is still out and at that point they’ll have to see if McLellan’s job is still on the line then. It would seem if they continue to lose at home that might be the case. The Sharks might want to make a change. Right now a coaching change is hard to predict right now there still a lot of questions about that.

The Sharks played pretty well in those two games with Philadelphia and Anaheim, the game against Anaheim looked like a joy ride game with six goals scored by the Sharks when they dominated and they gave up some goals and they let the Ducks almost come back in that game. They went into the Flyers game on Tuesday night with some confidence and that game went okay for them.

The Sharks looked a little slow at the start of that period and came back and won the game so things looked like they were turning around and in the Boston Bruins game on Thursday the Sharks who got ate up in the first period by two quick goals from the Bruins at 0:29 by Reilly Smith and by Gregory Campbell at 2:35 for a 2-0 Boston lead. The Sharks answered right back in the second period with a Tommy Wingels goal at 0:27 and then at 3:00 for the tying goal James Shepard was driving to the left of Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask and shot the puck that deflected off the skate of winger Tyler Kennedy that took a crazy bounce into the net to tie it up at 2-2.

Then at 7:30 Wingels struck again to get the Sharks the lead 3-2 when he hit one in front of the blue line for his second goal of the game and his ninth of the season. The Bruins had seen enough and Reilly Smith then scored his second goal of the game and his sixth of the season to tie it up 3-3 in the second period. The Sharks do look improved than those three games that they lost.

The Sharks did surrender two easy goals in the first period Thursday night and it’s still an up and down season for San Jose. The Sharks used to dominate at home in the last few seasons especially in last two seasons they were just unbeatable. Any team that wanted to stay close they had to endure those first 20 minutes of the game and this season the Sharks seemed to be half awake at certain times.

Ivan Markarov is the Sharks beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com