Some teams will try anything to get out of a slump, and the San Jose Sharks' late-season slide has Brent Burns pondering atypical healing methods.
"We know we're a great team. We gotta get back there. Who knows, we've gotta see a witch doctor or something," the star blue-liner told reporters after a 5-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Friday night. "I don't know. We'll see."
The Sharks have lost eight of their last nine games, and Friday's defeat was San Jose's second in as many nights in Alberta following Thursday's 3-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
While this isn't the way last year's Western Conference champions want to play down the stretch, Burns doesn't think it's irreversible.
"Everything's fixable, I mean, we're a great team," he said. "We know it. We played like it for 68, 69 games, and (in) some of these games, we were playing well, too."
The Sharks have clinched a playoff berth, but they've also slipped to third place in the Pacific Division, with both the first-place Anaheim Ducks and the second-place Oilers now holding a game in hand.
San Jose plays the lowly Vancouver Canucks on Sunday and then again on Tuesday before closing out the regular season with rematches against the Oilers and Flames.
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