With just one win in his team's last 10 games, San Jose Sharks interim coach Bob Boughner has had enough.
The Sharks are in a downward spiral, the likes of which they haven't experienced in quite some time. San Jose dropped to last place in the Western Conference with Friday night's overtime loss to the Los Angeles Kings, and Boughner wasn't pulling any punches postgame.
"Some guys have got to look in the mirror and put it on themselves," Boughner told reporters. "You can't dress 12 forwards and have eight or nine show up. That was the problem tonight."
San Jose entered the third period up 2-0 before the Kings' Martin Frk cut the lead to one early in the frame. After the goal, Sharks forwards Timo Meier and Kevin Labanc skated just three shifts each, and Meier didn't see the ice in the eventual overtime session.
"We had to shorten our bench and we had a couple of guys that were just not sticking with the structure, not playing within the team system," Boughner said. He added: "They know who they are and it's a wake-up call for a couple of guys in that room right now."
The Sharks will look to get back on track when they face the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
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